I love all my essays but I am especially fond of these two--about two of my favourite films recently--and thrilled that they are right next to each other at the top of my most popular essays:
Because we would want more, we would want different, we would want a multi-dimensional life and enough freedom to determine who - in this Universe of ourselves - we want to be. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…#GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
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So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women like Bette Midler that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home
That theocracy at home was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right? feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
That theocracy right here at home was being built by white women who were their mothers, aunts, sisters and friends; white women who look just like them feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
It's good to see many, finally, say "Fuck the Supreme Court."
This isn't the time for politeness or civility. I refuse to be civil w/religious zealots who don't recognize my full humanity; who are denying me the fundamental right of ownership of my body. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
Politeness is capitulation.
There is nothing polite about white supremacist patriarchy and the zealots it has installed on the Supreme Court, who voted against a medical procedure that the majority of people in the U.S. believe should be the prerogative of the pregnant person.
There is nothing polite or civil about patriarchy.
Who benefits from upholding those social codes? Civility, decorum,etc are used to uphold authority--patriarchy, whiteness, wealth, other forms of privilege--and we are urged to acquiesce in service to maintaining that authority.
I have had 2 abortions—one “illegal” and another “legal.” I use “-“ because the State—and the Supreme Court can fuck off with their opinions about what I can and can’t do with my uterus. That control belongs to me.
When fascists & theocrats tighten their grip on your body w:abortion bans, the path to freedom must be paved with profanity. Politeness is capitulation.
“There was a philosophical obligation …to disrespect a law that disrespected women.”
I say this almost every day: I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over the past 2 decades, I've learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them/work for, not ever hurt them.
That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.
Black, Indigenous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
I was glad to speak to @froomkin about the ways U.S. media have failed in their abortion coverage and why they refuse to call the white supremacy, misogyny, theocracy, and patriarchy what it is presswatchers.org/2022/06/massiv…#RoeVWade
One of the reasons I started FEMINIST GIANT was because U.S. media would not--I know--publish what I want to write. e.g. essays calling out the arrogance and naïveté of white Americans feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
Abortion bans are intent on punishing us for daring to take ownership of our bodies and our sexual desire outside of the norms. They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
Abortion bans are driven by zealots and puritans.
We must not dance to their agenda but instead fuck to our heart’s content whomever (with their consent, obviously) and whenever, secure in the knowledge and the right to determine the consequences.
Abortion is a human right, not a bonus or a reward we must earn.