Now I embrace it because I know that energy is going to move through me, and then move me toward action. I used to be scared to get all the way angry because I felt out of control. One thing that’s really important to me about anger is that it is a motivator, where depression, sadness, and some of my other emotional responses (dissociation, overwhelm) can be the opposite. Between the misogyny of leftist bros, Brock Turner, Trump’s election, #MeToo/#TimesUp, the continuing disaster of the Trump presidency, the Russian interference, Congress’ refusal to act in the best interest of our country, the Kavanaugh hearings… when I list it out like that, it’s no wonder that I am so angry and that so many women are furious right beside me. I know that in the last four years (since the 2016 primaries), I have personally been more in touch with my anger than I had been in any other part of my life. From Greta Thunberg’s addressing the UN on climate change to women reclaiming Medusa, rage is really up for a lot of women. Marissa Korbel: Anger, particularly women’s anger, is so much the zeitgeist at the moment. We are our own whole people, and anger is a part of being whole, but it isn’t negating to our womanhood. Now, looking back, that makes me angry! So for me, now, being a woman writing about anger is a deeply subversive act in a world where anger is considered “bitchy” or “male.” Angry women are women who aren’t necessarily docile or domestic or pliable, but instead fierce and independent and present in our own lives. I remember sitting with my therapist years ago talking about something, and my therapist asked me whether or not I was angry, and I just said, “No.” I wasn’t supposed to be angry, because women aren’t supposed to be angry that’s how I was raised, just like so many other girls. Sheryl Ring: For so long I considered it inappropriate for me, as a woman, to be angry about anything. The subtitle of the anthology is “Women Writing About Anger.” What does that mean for you? Over e-mail, we asked Dancyger and three of the Jewish contributors to the anthology - Marissa Korbel, Erin Khar, and Sheryl Ring - to talk about anger, catharsis, and - ’tis the season - Yom Kippur.
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