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Rep. Rashida Tlaib's testimony is gut wrenching, historic and absolutely vital viewing. I salute her. And I salute Rep. AOC reaching out to her. This along with AOC's Instagram Live are historic: women in power showing us vulnerability. h/t @rerutled https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1357492435253870593
It is so important that Tlaib and AOC refuse the "Put up and shut up and be grateful we let you in the men's club" thinking that socialized women of my genderation and older women to put a "brave" face on it.
The election of Reps. AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and more recently Cori Bush, was a big fuck you to white supremacists, misogynists, Islamophobes, racists. That is why I wrote this https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1356790506320252928?s=20
And here is Rep. Cori Bush. These are historic testimonies and these congresswomen represent disruption of the most powerful and essential kind to the white supremacist terror that drove the insurrection and which undergirds so much in US h/t @CB_Somers https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1357496446161883137?s=20
Remember when Ted Yoho called AOC a "fucking bitch" last July? He was not the first man to call a congresswoman that. But I cannot recall another female lawmaker get up in Congress and say “Not today. Not me” in the way AOC did in response. https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1286328181578964993?s=20
These Black & women of colour representatives - some of whom are also Muslim - come from working class backgrounds & challenge those who believe politics are domain of wealthy white men (and women) who seek to maintain an economic and social status quo. https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-aoc-the-disruptor
And it’s not just old, white, wealthy male politicians that AOC et al disrupt & terrify. They disrupt & terrify white female politicians & not just from GOP, like Greene and Boebert, but Nancy Pelosi and others (although they've patched things up since). https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/outright-disrespectful-four-house-women-struggle-as-pelosi-isolates-them/2019/07/10/a33c63a8-a33f-11e9-b7b4-95e30869bd15_story.html?noredirect=on
In Sept Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on her candidate FB page an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib and encouraged going on the "offense against these socialists." https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-gun-post-squad/index.html
An incitement to violence she was reminded of today as the House voted to expel MTG from committees h/t @rerutled https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1357461774593851392?s=20
And also today, this h/t @realkatyhilton https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1357310744048640000?s=20
After Trump attacked AOC and the Squad she told him "You are angry because you can’t conceive of an America that includes us. You rely on a frightened America for your plunder." And there was truth in that https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1150445185438035968?s=20
AOC told Trump "On top of not accepting an America that elected us, you cannot accept that we don’t fear you, either." And there was truth and power in that. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1150446897490026497
On her Instagram Live, AOC showed us fear and the trauma that it leaves in its wake. And there was power in that. And there is power in all the testimonies today.
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