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Gray's avatar

I was up until 4am this morning and ended up missing my first class of the day. I’m not viscerally upset - I expected this - but I’m trying to get myself up and ready for my next class and an event tonight. I’m trying to have patience and empathy for the big reactions from people in my life who are more insulated from bad effects from this upcoming presidency than others I know, including myself. Everyone needs space for their feelings, but sometimes, seeing your more privileged, more socially powerful friends have a meltdown is disheartening.

I wonder if I’m going to become homeless and how it’s going to happen. I wonder if my gender affirming hysterectomy is going to go through, or if people are going to do that comply-in-advance thing. I wonder if I’ll be able to get a job that pays enough for a disabled person to live after I manage to complete school. I was worried about all of this under Biden, though. More people died of COVID under Biden than Trump; more Palestinians died under Biden than Trump. It won’t be better now, don’t get me wrong, but it was an illusion that things were ever truly okay. That’s where I’m at right now.

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Julia Golda Harris's avatar

I’m not gonna lie, I laughed at “there’s coffee to brew and cats to pet.” It is randomly my birthday today and I truly don’t know what to feel!! Prescriptive election commentary is universally making me cringe/get mad, and (what I consider to be) accurate analysis of our historical moment can’t actually offer a way forward other than keep doing the work we were doing last week. It’s brutal. Nobody has the answers.

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