Rebecca Traister

Maybe I got it more because often white women were my audience and a lot of them were newer to wanting to do something to begin with. And so it was like, what can I do? I'm not a protest person or what can I do? And a thing I used to say to them that this conversation has reminded me of is. is like, there is not one model at all. And it's not just like, there's not a comforting thing.

This is an energizing thing. Fuck no, there's no one model. If everybody just liked to go to protests and felt that we wouldn't get anything done. You don't get anything done by just protesting, right? And if everybody just wanted to run for office, that would, right? So you should think well beyond it might be

This is an energizing thing. Fuck no, there's no one model. If everybody just liked to go to protests and felt that we wouldn't get anything done. You don't get anything done by just protesting, right? And if everybody just wanted to run for office, that would, right? So you should think well beyond it might be

This is an energizing thing. Fuck no, there's no one model. If everybody just liked to go to protests and felt that we wouldn't get anything done. You don't get anything done by just protesting, right? And if everybody just wanted to run for office, that would, right? So you should think well beyond it might be

finding a social circle that brings you in contact with new people with whom you're not going there to secretly infiltrate it to then talk about politics. But in fact, if you find that you share interests and humanity, it becomes... more available to extend through social connection, expand your own personal moral universe, right?

finding a social circle that brings you in contact with new people with whom you're not going there to secretly infiltrate it to then talk about politics. But in fact, if you find that you share interests and humanity, it becomes... more available to extend through social connection, expand your own personal moral universe, right?

finding a social circle that brings you in contact with new people with whom you're not going there to secretly infiltrate it to then talk about politics. But in fact, if you find that you share interests and humanity, it becomes... more available to extend through social connection, expand your own personal moral universe, right?

And have conversations that might not be had otherwise, whether it's crocheting or gardening or whatever. But there's also this inward thing that we've touched on before. what about getting the kinds of education that they would prefer that we not get? So a thing I used to regularly tell people who were like, I don't know, I'm not good with people. I don't knock doors.

And have conversations that might not be had otherwise, whether it's crocheting or gardening or whatever. But there's also this inward thing that we've touched on before. what about getting the kinds of education that they would prefer that we not get? So a thing I used to regularly tell people who were like, I don't know, I'm not good with people. I don't knock doors.

And have conversations that might not be had otherwise, whether it's crocheting or gardening or whatever. But there's also this inward thing that we've touched on before. what about getting the kinds of education that they would prefer that we not get? So a thing I used to regularly tell people who were like, I don't know, I'm not good with people. I don't knock doors.

And it's like, go to a library. Right. Go find some of this history. In my book, I wrote a ton about history that I did not know as a very expensively educated person with a strong background in history and feminism and anti-racism. There is history.

And it's like, go to a library. Right. Go find some of this history. In my book, I wrote a ton about history that I did not know as a very expensively educated person with a strong background in history and feminism and anti-racism. There is history.

And it's like, go to a library. Right. Go find some of this history. In my book, I wrote a ton about history that I did not know as a very expensively educated person with a strong background in history and feminism and anti-racism. There is history.

of how people in these other generations that we've been talking about today and in other periods of regress, how they worked, how they built coalitions, how they existed in the world, how they fought. And more than anything, that long view of history and understanding, yes, we have been here before. We have been in places like this and generations before us because of their willingness

of how people in these other generations that we've been talking about today and in other periods of regress, how they worked, how they built coalitions, how they existed in the world, how they fought. And more than anything, that long view of history and understanding, yes, we have been here before. We have been in places like this and generations before us because of their willingness

of how people in these other generations that we've been talking about today and in other periods of regress, how they worked, how they built coalitions, how they existed in the world, how they fought. And more than anything, that long view of history and understanding, yes, we have been here before. We have been in places like this and generations before us because of their willingness

to think creatively and connectively with other people, to talk about inequity, injustice, and to find a mode of fighting that made sense and a way to stiffen their own spines when it felt impossible, they enabled us to get here. You know, they enabled the victories that these people are now trying to and succeeding in many cases at snatching away from us. And they do not.

to think creatively and connectively with other people, to talk about inequity, injustice, and to find a mode of fighting that made sense and a way to stiffen their own spines when it felt impossible, they enabled us to get here. You know, they enabled the victories that these people are now trying to and succeeding in many cases at snatching away from us. And they do not.

to think creatively and connectively with other people, to talk about inequity, injustice, and to find a mode of fighting that made sense and a way to stiffen their own spines when it felt impossible, they enabled us to get here. You know, they enabled the victories that these people are now trying to and succeeding in many cases at snatching away from us. And they do not.

That is why they're banning books. That is why they're attacking universities. They do not want the people to understand that there are millions of paths forward for us still. Even if you do not want to be extroverted in the world, it is a mode of resistance to go and read the books they don't want you to read, to go and learn about the past that they would prefer you not learn about.