There are a lot of different layers and tensions between the kind of work you want to be doing. And how do i balance that against a call both my own temper that might lead me to belike i got to say this thing right now? I don't know how to that balance. Its the tension that animates all my professional choices. It's going to get worse, so much worse.
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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