Brittney Cooper

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.

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.

And then by the time they're 30, Jim Crow has set in. And they're lynching Black people by the thousands. And they are hunting folks with dogs. And they are snatching women off the streets and raping them. And that's their literal reality. I'm not being hyperbolic. That's literally what happened. in a world where they had been granted rights, where the trains had been desegregated.

And then by the time they're 30, Jim Crow has set in. And they're lynching Black people by the thousands. And they are hunting folks with dogs. And they are snatching women off the streets and raping them. And that's their literal reality. I'm not being hyperbolic. That's literally what happened. in a world where they had been granted rights, where the trains had been desegregated.

And then by the time they're 30, Jim Crow has set in. And they're lynching Black people by the thousands. And they are hunting folks with dogs. And they are snatching women off the streets and raping them. And that's their literal reality. I'm not being hyperbolic. That's literally what happened. in a world where they had been granted rights, where the trains had been desegregated.

All of that shit happened in this country in the 1860s. And then by the 1890s, it's all gone. And those women, what they did was they like straightened their backs and they said, all right then, We see you. And so we don't have time for all our feelings and our musings and our whatever. We have to build a civil society that is going to take care of the most vulnerable.

All of that shit happened in this country in the 1860s. And then by the 1890s, it's all gone. And those women, what they did was they like straightened their backs and they said, all right then, We see you. And so we don't have time for all our feelings and our musings and our whatever. We have to build a civil society that is going to take care of the most vulnerable.

All of that shit happened in this country in the 1860s. And then by the 1890s, it's all gone. And those women, what they did was they like straightened their backs and they said, all right then, We see you. And so we don't have time for all our feelings and our musings and our whatever. We have to build a civil society that is going to take care of the most vulnerable.

We have to continue to say that this is not the way we want the world to work. But we have to do that while we are building hospitals. hospitals and schools, a healthcare system, a protection system, and a mode of being with each other that is going to help us to outlast this thing that seeks to destroy us. And in order to do that, first, you got to work on feeling all your feelings.

We have to continue to say that this is not the way we want the world to work. But we have to do that while we are building hospitals. hospitals and schools, a healthcare system, a protection system, and a mode of being with each other that is going to help us to outlast this thing that seeks to destroy us. And in order to do that, first, you got to work on feeling all your feelings.

We have to continue to say that this is not the way we want the world to work. But we have to do that while we are building hospitals. hospitals and schools, a healthcare system, a protection system, and a mode of being with each other that is going to help us to outlast this thing that seeks to destroy us. And in order to do that, first, you got to work on feeling all your feelings.

And then you got to recognize that there are sometimes only two options. And I hate it. I'm not saying I don't resent it. I'm not saying I don't want a different reality, but I am telling you from the depths of my

And then you got to recognize that there are sometimes only two options. And I hate it. I'm not saying I don't resent it. I'm not saying I don't want a different reality, but I am telling you from the depths of my

And then you got to recognize that there are sometimes only two options. And I hate it. I'm not saying I don't resent it. I'm not saying I don't want a different reality, but I am telling you from the depths of my

own grief and journey around having to rebuild my life again that sometimes there are only two options and those options are be strong or die that is it and I think that a bunch of badass women together will just figure out how to fucking be strong

own grief and journey around having to rebuild my life again that sometimes there are only two options and those options are be strong or die that is it and I think that a bunch of badass women together will just figure out how to fucking be strong

own grief and journey around having to rebuild my life again that sometimes there are only two options and those options are be strong or die that is it and I think that a bunch of badass women together will just figure out how to fucking be strong

Let's sit and look at what this victory looks like. Can I jump in and say, one of the ways that I think that people can accept this better is to do what I did on my birthday, which is that I went to a rage room. And in that rage room, there was a picture of Trump's face on the wall. And I was given a

Let's sit and look at what this victory looks like. Can I jump in and say, one of the ways that I think that people can accept this better is to do what I did on my birthday, which is that I went to a rage room. And in that rage room, there was a picture of Trump's face on the wall. And I was given a

Let's sit and look at what this victory looks like. Can I jump in and say, one of the ways that I think that people can accept this better is to do what I did on my birthday, which is that I went to a rage room. And in that rage room, there was a picture of Trump's face on the wall. And I was given a