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The Last 2 Years Have Showed Just How Little This Country Cares About Women
Lessons from the busiest two years of my professional life — and arguably the worst stretch of modern American history
I’ve been writing columns for years; sometimes once a week, sometimes a few times a week, sometimes (back when I was blogging a million years ago) a few times a day. No matter how infrequently I publish, finding subjects to write about can be tough. There’s always a week when the news feels sparse or inspiration just doesn’t strike. That hasn’t really been the case of the last two years, the time I’ve spent writing at GEN.
Between Donald Trump’s presidency, the resulting rollback of hard-won reproductive rights, and a global pandemic, there’s been no shortage of headlines to stress over or dissect. Being the person that needs to react to the news — often within hours of it happening — can be incredibly overwhelming. I’ve sometimes longed for the days when I had nothing in particular on my mind.
So for my last column at GEN, I thought I’d share a few truths, as pessimistic as they might be, that I’ve learned in the busiest two years of my professional life and arguably the worst two years in modern American life. This is by no means an…
