Check out this great article by Anna North in VOX linking the white women who helped organize and participate in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to their loooooong history of propping up white supremacy: "[I]f we ignore the importance of women in the Capitol riot and the groups that backed and enabled it, we can’t understand white supremacy in America — let alone dismantle it. Trying to fight racism in America without looking at white women, [historian Stephanie] Jones-Rogers said, is like “addressing only the right side of the body when the left side is still sick.” Many of the historical mentions she shouts out are topics we've planned for future episodes, in addition to a dive into white women's involvement with the far Right and QAnon. Stay tuned!
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