Trump was not an aberration. He was the fruition of white supremacy, misogyny, Christian fundamentalism, militarism and authoritarianism.
And Steve Bannon is the gardener tasked with pruning and cross-pollinating the poisonous blossoms.
Trump turbocharged white supremacist patriarchy.
Armed white supremacists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on #Jan6 had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.
Bannon, who was once charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness, knows well where the battle lines are drawn. He is enamoured of the word “war” so let’s be clear what he thinks that war is: it is feminism vs white supremacist patriarchy.
He has said so.
“You watch. The time has come. Women are gonna take charge of society...And they couldn’t juxtapose a better villain than Trump. He is the patriarch. This is a definitional moment in the culture. It’ll never be the same going forward.”
And we know that the #Jan6 insurrectionists, invading the Capitol flying flags for Jesus, were called out as the antiabortion extremists that abortion providers know them to be. slate.com/news-and-polit…
White supremacist patriarchy at the highest levels and in the grassroots in the USA.
The white supremacist patriarchy that Trump greenlit from the highest office in the land continues to march on. feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
And the Supreme Court's overturning of #RoevWade is part of that march, that has plenty of willing white women footsoldiers.
As I work on my new essay on menopause, here are a few I've already written: Going through perimenopause during a pandemic has taught me to focus on emerging. We cannot reverse. We will emerge, our hearts unhealed and scarred but awesome. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
I refuse to emerge as if unscathed. I insist that we all be scathed, that we refuse to be the people we were at the start of the pandemic. A pandemic, like revolution, does not happen overnight. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
The pandemic and perimenopause--the right &left speaker that give stereo to my life--have fucked up my sleep. Accustomed now to waking up every 2hrs, I have a comfort routine at the ready: I soothe myself with eyeliner. I call it Deliberate Beauty feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
In Japan, the first study to focus on #menopause and work found that ‘menopausal loss’ affected one-fifth of women experiencing menopause, who quit, turned down promotions, reduced their working hours or were demoted as a result of their symptoms. nature.com/articles/d4158…
"Menopause often comes at a time when people move into more senior, more demanding roles. In research, as in other careers,this coincidence is almost certainly causing some to reconsider their career ambitions, adding yet another drain to the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women in science"
“How can I compete with men when I can’t sleep?” Andrea, 50, a senior executive at a Canadian financial services company. “I looked around the table at all the men and thought, ‘I can’t sleep. I sweat all the time. How can I ever compete with these guys?’” thestar.com/life/health_we…
“I learned that sometimes you have to stand up to illegitimate authority and sometimes there are unjust laws that need to be challenged,” Heather Booth, of Jane, the network that provided 11,000 safe and affordable abortion in pre-Roe v Wade Chicago feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
During protests demanding the legalization of abortion in 2020 on Safe Abortion Day, which is marked on Sept. 28, women charged police lines and threw Molotov cocktails at officers in Mexico City. The images from the protest were a reminder that we must make patriarchy fear us
Less than a year later, on Sept 7, 2021, Mexico’s Supreme Court voted to decriminalize abortion, giving momentum to efforts to strike it from state penal codes throughout the country.
"Many cis women have the capacity for pregnancy, many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy," Prof. Khiara Bridges h/t @AngryBlackLady@rerutled
Sen. Josh Hawley: "So this isn't really a women's rights issue..."
Prof. Khiara Bridges: "We can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups. Those things are not mutually exclusive, Senator Hawley."
Gratitude, love and solidarity to all sharing on this thread. I took my 2.5mg of THC which is wonderful for softening the sharpness of my anxiety and will turn this into an essay soon. Cannabis is a great friend on this menopause transition 💜✊🏽❤️