Unless the United States develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of Roe v Wade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. cnn.com/2023/01/20/pol…#RoeVsWade
This is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core.
And plenty of white women have helped build that theocracy
U.S. media tiptoe around all of this because these white Christian zealots are the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and relatives of white reporters.
It's hard to see theocrats when they look like you
In 1996, I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt and in 2000, I had a “legal” abortion in the U.S.
I use inverted commas because the State & the Supreme Court can fuck off with opinions about what I can and can’t do with my uterus. That control belongs to me feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
Criminalizing abortion does not eradicate it nor does it make it rare.
It makes it dangerous and often deadly for the poorest and most vulnerable people who can get pregnant.
It is telling that police are thought to be our protectors from rapists and predators when they themselves are too often the rapists and predators. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck-t…
It is telling that police are thought to be our protectors from rapists and predators when they do very little to protect us from rapists and predators.
David Carrick, who worked for an elite armed unit in London’s Metropolitan Police, admitted 49 offences, including 24 rapes, against 12 women over 18 years. vice.com/en/article/5d3…
I was sexually assaulted twice during Hajj in 1982. I was 15 years old. I started #MosqueMeToo in 2018 after a Pakistani Muslim woman called Sabica Khan said she'd been in sexually assaulted during pilgrimage.
It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please! That was the essence of my perimenopause on any given day.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over the past two decades, I have learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white Americans that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Afghanistan or Iran, that so many white Americans didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home.
White & Christian is considered the norm in the U.S. to such an extent that even as white Christians such as Rep. Ann Kelley propose a misogynist dress code in the Missouri State House, white Americans can only see danger as looking like the Taliban instead of like themselves
It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you.
No need to look for scary zealots in far away countries when you've got your own homegrown zealots right here in the U.S.
When the Taliban took over in Afghanistan last year, they banned women from sports. These pictures for AP by Ebrahim Noroozi of athletes who miss competing in their sport are heart wrenchingly incredible. apnews.com/article/sports…
Afghan women who practice Muay Tha, or Thai boxing, pose for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022.
The women in these pictures posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Afghan mixed martial arts fighter poses with her trophies.
Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice in secret. 📷Ebrahim Noroozi