Rebecca Traister
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Mar
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a hundred years later and wind up a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that winds up altering the law around segregation and public transportation.
Well, it's such a great question, and it's so real.
And especially these past couple years, I've heard that so much from so many people, people who were angry in the first Trump administration and now are tired, right?
It's another reason that it's really important to tell a longer and more complex history.
And the first thing I want to say is that anger can be a very destructive force.
I never want to pretend that it can't be.
It can explode relationships between allies, between friends.
It can be very combustible and destructive.
We don't talk enough about how anger, shared anger, can also bring people together.
It's the building blocks of organizing and of movements.
It's also how people support each other.
And when you discourage people on the margins from expressing their anger, that means they can't let other people know what they're angry about and they can't hear the other people who might be right next to them in class, on their block, at work, who are angry about the same things and with whom they could form a bond that winds up being supportive
people they can work together with, do organizing, and also celebrate with.
One story in this book is about kids who planned a trans prom.
There's celebration in anger and in organizing.
There's comfort through the losses.
And then there's also people who can spell you when you're exhausted.
And so one of the things that I want to stress about anger, including for young people, is that while it can be
harmful and hurt, it can also draw people together.
And we don't talk enough about that.
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