Rebecca Traister
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Mar
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Thank you for having me.
Of course.
Can be a good thing.
Can be a good thing.
Can be a good thing.
So there's a lot of different things that anger can be.
Including political anger.
I would say that we live in a period in which a certain kind of political anger that is not good is radically shifting this country in a terrible way.
That's a punitive anger on behalf of an inequitable power system and angry people, a lot of angry white men who want to get back their power and are doing an enormous amount of destruction.
This book is not about that.
No.
So this book is a book about angry women and girls and gender nonconforming people who have been angry at inequity, at injustice.
And I would argue that that kind of anger
is good, can be good.
But also, one of the reasons I'm writing this book, and one of the reasons this is an adaptation for young readers of a book that I wrote for adults, is because that anger has been under-recognized.
We don't get taught about it.
It's not appreciated.
In fact, women and girls and gender non-conforming people are often told that their anger makes them ugly or hysterical or crazy or dangerous.
And in fact, when I have gone back to get an education that I never got, and I had a very good education, but was never taught that at the beginning of almost every major social movement that has reshaped this country, not just the officially women's movement ones, civil rights, environment, labor, there were angry women and girls at the start.
And their stories haven't been transmitted to us.
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