Reprise: Speaking my truth: my WHOLE truth*

Remembering the fears that kept me awake at night for a long time (virtually four years) after Trump’s election. Worth revisiting and reassessing now that the nightmare is over in name at least, but not nearly as over as it should be, thanks to ongoing GOP efforts to maintain the destructive impulses trump’s presidency made manifest.

* NOTE: Medium doesn’t like it when you re-post a previously published article, but that is a rather bogus expectation when they haven’t curated/distributed a single one of your articles in the entire three years you’ve been writing here, and as a consequence it received very few readers.

So, Medium, you get a resounding raspberry here (along with an eff you).

Speaking my truth: my WHOLE truth

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life. — Virginia Woolf

Reflections on the political and personal consequences for myself and other women of the election of Donald J. Trump as president.

Journal entry, November 17, 2016, edited and expanded December 2, 2016

In “Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work,” Louise DeSalvo examined the impact of Woolf’s experience of sexual abuse at the hands of her half brothers. DeSalvo argued that Woolf’s suicide can be directly connected to her terror over the rise of Hitler in Europe…