More than angry

Abstract

Millions of women, trans people, men, and youth poured into the streets to protest Donald Trumps inauguration in January 2017. Estimates place participation in the Women’s March at five million worldwide, including the largest single day protest in Washington, DC, with a crowd of over 470,000 (Waddell). In a social media follow-up in October 2017 to the Womens March, millions broke the silence about sexual abuse by sharing the hashtag #MeToo. Many participants describe rage as the connective tissue joining global street protest to social media activism. In both, lifetimes of grief and trauma were given public and angry voice. It is no surprise, of course, that women are angry. What is surprising is that so many publishers believed readers would be hungry for books, by and for women with complex lives and emotions, about what Audre horde called the “uses of anger.”