#1: Ashli Babbitt never imagined she would survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” She never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women https://www.feministgiant.com/p/white-women-storm-the-capitol

#2: Rosanne Boyland, who carried the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag as she marched, never imagined she would be trampled to death under the feet of her fellow insurrectionists. She believed she would go home because white women do go home after violence, be it lynching or insurrection.

#3: Elizabeth from Knoxville was so secure in her right to pursue sedition she spoke to a reporter on camera with no attempt to hide/intention:“We’re storming the Capitol,it’s a revolution.”She complained she was maced & pushed out. White women never expect to be maced/pushed out

#4:Unidentified white (every)woman was so sure police would always protect her, along w/other property of white men that she complained to the mob of insurrectionists: “This is not America.They’re shooting at us.They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots"

#5: Cassandra Ferragamo was so confident in the audacity of her white womanhood that she brazenly grabbed Berlinda Nibo’s wig and tore it off as the white mob kettled Nibo, pushed her around, smacked her, and pepper-sprayed her.

Cassandra Ferragamo was so confident in the audacity of her white womanhood she boasted on video “Fuck BLM, I’ll snatch your fucking weave off” as she waved Nibo’s wig in the air, like a trophy. “I did that. I did the first scalping of the new civil war” https://www.feministgiant.com/p/white-women-storm-the-capitol

That is the first of my essays looking at the insurrection from a feminist lens. More very soon.

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