The night of the election, my partner and I didn’t watch the news. After eight or so, we didn’t check our phones for updates. We watched a Wes Anderson movie we’ve seen countless times instead. Whatever would happen would happen, so why cling to each state’s results, why let dread or false hope rule our evening?The next morning my partner looked up the news on his phone. “Trump won,” he said. I thought he was joking.But no. Overnight, the world had changed.I found I no longer felt safe in thi...
Published on February 08, 2017 09:36