How To! How To Harness Your Anger
Oct 14, 2025
Join journalist and author Soraya Chemaly as she explores the complexities of anger, urging women to embrace it as a signal of injustice rather than a destructive force. She discusses how race and gender influence anger expression and evaluates the effectiveness of rage rooms. Soraya advocates for harnessing anger into community action through creative outlets and self-care. She also emphasizes the importance of teaching emotional competence to children and reclaiming the emotional freedom of youth.
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Host’s Midlife Anger From Caregiving And Politics
- Courtney Martin shares that caregiving and political stress made her viscerally angrier than ever before.
- She felt embarrassed and surprised because she had prided herself on being unflappable.
Anger Signals Problems; Rage Shows Failure To Respond
- Anger is the emotional signal of injustice and relational need that prompts us to pause and fix a problem.
- Rage is anger without uptake and becomes destructive when needs go unmet over time.
Who Gets To Be Angry Is Racialized And Gendered
- Social norms let white men display anger as authority while policing others' expressions differently by race and gender.
- Women are often called "crazy" for anger, and Black men are criminalized for similar affects.
