Well, it’s just about as bad as we thought it would be. Trump’s first few days in office brought back radical anti-abortion policies that will quite literally kill women, a controversy over non-existent voter fraud and the silencing of national parks’ social media accounts because they talked about his poor inauguration showing. Everything horrible he said he would do, he is doing.

This is not a drill.



Glass half full

While there’s not much to be optimistic about, this sign at the Women’s March in New York that my sister snapped is making me feel a little bit better.

What I’m RTing

Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) This is a remarkably chilling phrasehttps://t.co/o1AWBZafWX pic.twitter.com/DRgrr5Jf0q

NatlParksUnderground (@NatParkUndrgrnd) An often overlooked side effect of border walls, they are devastating to the environment and wildlife. #NoBanNoWallhttps://t.co/dQ9TyeqGH8

Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) I made a complete list of all the times rooms full of women have legislated men’s bodies https://t.co/ToMXoOPrYH pic.twitter.com/NNSotan6pp

David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) I hope @TheDemocrats are ready to publish a weekly list of crimes purportedly committed by members of the Trump administration. https://t.co/7jhKlVrxx5

Who I’m reading

Jenna Wortham on why Who Didn’t Go to the Women’s March Matters More Than Who Did; BuzzFeed on how the feminist author Roxane Gay pulled her book from Simon & Schuster in protest of the publisher signing on a well-known online hate-monger; and the Washington Post on the power of bias.



Weekly hate-read

Don’t want to link to it, but a male columnist at the NYT this week outlined all the ways women are protesting wrong. (Hint: this writer once wrote that women should seek power “in the kitchen ”.)



What I’m writing

I did my best to describe what it felt like to march with hundreds of thousands of women beside me. (You can also hear a rundown of the march - and what comes next - on the latest episode of What Would a Feminist Do where I chat with the activist Jamia Wilson.)

And if you’re worried about abortion rights – you should be. I took a look at the flurry of anti-choice measures in the last week and why calls for common ground with “pro-lifers” are ridiculous.



How outraged I am

On a scale of one to 10, I am unconscious.

How I’m making it through this week

Watching this on repeat.

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