i think it's a process of your girding yourself, and yet there's actually nothing that can prepare you. It's almost like when someone you know is going to die actually dies. I am somebody who's very susceptible to having people, peers, often peers who i meani, who i somehow absorb as having ority,. Even if i can sort of say i think they're full of shit.
Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Her latest article is "The Necessity of Hope."
“A big motivation of this piece, which I think is framed in this there’s still reason to hope is actually the inverse of that. Which is: Let us be crystal clear about what is happening, what is lost, what is violated. The cruelty, the horror, and the injustice, and that is it only moving toward worse right now. And to establish that to then say that it is the responsibility to really absorb that, and then figure out how to move forward.”
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