5/21/2023 0 Comments Rage Becomes Her by Soraya ChemalyWomen, especially, will be told to set our anger aside in favor of a kinder, gentler approach to change. Watch carefully, because not everyone is asked to do this in equal measure. In the coming years, we will hear, again, that anger is a destructive force, to be controlled. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is survival, liberation, creativity, urgency, and vibrancy. How much anger is too much? Certainly not the anger that, for many of us, is a remembering of a self we learned to hide and quiet. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt. It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. It's a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.Īnger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is rational thought and irrational pain. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. “Anger is an assertion of rights and worth.
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