Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity
When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move forward.
Featuring essays by
REBECCA SOLNIT
on Trump and his “misogyny army,”
CHERYL STRAYED
on grappling with the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s loss,
SARAH HEPOLA
on resisting the urge to drink after the election,
NICOLE CHUNG
on family and friends who support Trump,
KATHA POLLITT
on the state of reproductive rights and what we do next,
JILL FILIPOVIC
on Trump’s policies and the life of a young woman in West Africa,
SAMANTHA IRBY
on racism and living as a queer black woman in rural America,
RANDA JARRAR
on traveling across the country as a queer Muslim American,
SARAH HOLLENBECK
on Trump’s cruelty toward the disabled,
MEREDITH TALUSAN
on feminism and the transgender community, and
SARAH JAFFE
on the labor movement and active and effective resistance,
among others
.