In the wake of the #metoo movement and the election of Trump, feminist public figure Rebecca Solnit (CBC 2018) stated in a radio interview:

What Solnit may not be aware of is that there is a way of talking about misogynistic violence as terrorism – it just has not been accepted by mainstream Terrorism Studies, nor has it filtered from some circles of feminism into the larger public. Therefore, there are two concurrent trends this chapter wishes to interrogate and bring together.

The first is to elaborate upon long-standing scholarship on what is termed by different scholars as patriarchal, intimate or everyday terrorism, which looks at domestic violence as terrorism. I build upon these forms and align them more substantially with what feminists outside of IR and Terrorism Studies call ‘misogynistic terrorism’, which expansively includes mass shootings and sexual violence. In doing so, a second trend is equally important: to look at how white supremacy has come back out of the shadows, and how misogyny is as central as the racism. This can be seen within the thinking on ‘misogynoir’, or the way black women are emotionally, physically and structurally harmed by the raced and gendered narratives particular to them (see Bailey and Trudy 2018). It captures the continued frustration with the erasures committed by white feminism and black (male) activism: