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Nov 21, 2024

When it feels like nowhere is safe

For many women, including Marjie Alonso, Trump's election victory — and news about who he's tapped to join his cabinet — is jogging traumatic experiences, sense memories of fear. Most men don’t know what it’s like to live under force, to be controlled by it, she writes.

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When it feels like nowhere is safe

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The art of losing

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On Air Commentaries

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This mayor is an artist

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Politics

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What is the role of women's anger now?

The anger many women feel about Trump's victory can spur renunciation and offer moral clarity, writes Leigh Gilmore. Anger isn’t the only important emotion, but it is the right response to the subordination of women’s personhood to men’s.

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Processing the election

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