Brittney Cooper

So the refusal to grant him that, the ratings, I mean, this man has moved his inauguration indoors, not because of the cold, but because he knew he wasn't going to do the numbers. Right. One of my friends was like, let me see. A few days ago, one of my friends said, let me see if I can get a hotel room in D.C. this week. A hundred percent. Yeah.

And there was plenty of availability all throughout the city. And so he knew he wasn't going to have the numbers. And so he said he was protecting the people, right? So I think that there's a thing in this moment about just the choice to be still. And then from that position, the other thing I was thinking, which is... a thing that I'm working through.

And there was plenty of availability all throughout the city. And so he knew he wasn't going to have the numbers. And so he said he was protecting the people, right? So I think that there's a thing in this moment about just the choice to be still. And then from that position, the other thing I was thinking, which is... a thing that I'm working through.

And there was plenty of availability all throughout the city. And so he knew he wasn't going to have the numbers. And so he said he was protecting the people, right? So I think that there's a thing in this moment about just the choice to be still. And then from that position, the other thing I was thinking, which is... a thing that I'm working through.

I was part of that generation of feminists who were like, we're throwing off our strong black woman capes. We're not doing this strong black woman shit anymore, you know, because we deserve to be vulnerable in the soft life and all of this stuff. And the thing that losing my mother has taught me is, and it is akin to the thing Rebecca said about the political work that I do,

I was part of that generation of feminists who were like, we're throwing off our strong black woman capes. We're not doing this strong black woman shit anymore, you know, because we deserve to be vulnerable in the soft life and all of this stuff. And the thing that losing my mother has taught me is, and it is akin to the thing Rebecca said about the political work that I do,

I was part of that generation of feminists who were like, we're throwing off our strong black woman capes. We're not doing this strong black woman shit anymore, you know, because we deserve to be vulnerable in the soft life and all of this stuff. And the thing that losing my mother has taught me is, and it is akin to the thing Rebecca said about the political work that I do,

is that one thing that I think we have not prepared our slightly younger forebears for is that there are some moments in American history where the soft life is not an option and where you either are strong or you die. And that is it. And that all of those Black women that today, Black feminists like myself and those younger than me, like to look at them and say, why are they so hard?

is that one thing that I think we have not prepared our slightly younger forebears for is that there are some moments in American history where the soft life is not an option and where you either are strong or you die. And that is it. And that all of those Black women that today, Black feminists like myself and those younger than me, like to look at them and say, why are they so hard?

is that one thing that I think we have not prepared our slightly younger forebears for is that there are some moments in American history where the soft life is not an option and where you either are strong or you die. And that is it. And that all of those Black women that today, Black feminists like myself and those younger than me, like to look at them and say, why are they so hard?

Why are they so unfeeling? Why are they so cold? Why are they impenetrable? Because that was the way that they survived. Now, do I think that that's emotionally healthy? No. Do I think that there are real consequences to that? Sure. But have I now confronted a set of circumstances in my life where my two options were

Why are they so unfeeling? Why are they so cold? Why are they impenetrable? Because that was the way that they survived. Now, do I think that that's emotionally healthy? No. Do I think that there are real consequences to that? Sure. But have I now confronted a set of circumstances in my life where my two options were

Why are they so unfeeling? Why are they so cold? Why are they impenetrable? Because that was the way that they survived. Now, do I think that that's emotionally healthy? No. Do I think that there are real consequences to that? Sure. But have I now confronted a set of circumstances in my life where my two options were

You leave your mother in this graveyard and you go forward with your life or you die here with her. There are no options in between there. There are not. And this is the place that we are. There is not fluffiness. I am not saying we can't have gentleness and kindness and care and compassion. I am saying...

You leave your mother in this graveyard and you go forward with your life or you die here with her. There are no options in between there. There are not. And this is the place that we are. There is not fluffiness. I am not saying we can't have gentleness and kindness and care and compassion. I am saying...

You leave your mother in this graveyard and you go forward with your life or you die here with her. There are no options in between there. There are not. And this is the place that we are. There is not fluffiness. I am not saying we can't have gentleness and kindness and care and compassion. I am saying...

that whatever this version of we all want to be vulnerable, feel all our feelings everywhere, and have a world where everyone is like... Look, I teach young people, and the level at which they want us all to put up foam buffers around their lives so that they don't ever have to hit a hard corner is weird. And I'm like, oh, we're done with that. And so...

that whatever this version of we all want to be vulnerable, feel all our feelings everywhere, and have a world where everyone is like... Look, I teach young people, and the level at which they want us all to put up foam buffers around their lives so that they don't ever have to hit a hard corner is weird. And I'm like, oh, we're done with that. And so...

that whatever this version of we all want to be vulnerable, feel all our feelings everywhere, and have a world where everyone is like... Look, I teach young people, and the level at which they want us all to put up foam buffers around their lives so that they don't ever have to hit a hard corner is weird. And I'm like, oh, we're done with that. And so...

I don't know how to deal politically with the fact that I have a set of feminist principles that are all about care and softness and our right for vulnerability and our right to process our trauma. And I am like, these motherfuckers are coming for us. And when I look... at the Black women in the 19th century who grew up in Reconstruction thinking, look, we're on the dawn of a new era.