A New World is Dawning
As Fourth Wave writers look around, behind, and ahead
So much has happened since the last newsletter, including a U.S. election that riveted the nation and is still grabbing our attention as the current president refuses to concede. But for half of the country, anyway, there’s a welcome emotion underlying the anxiety: relief. We look forward to living under a president who behaves normally, with the dignity called for by the office, and who treats other people with consideration and respect.
Let the policy battles begin.
In the meantime, it’s delightful to feel our attention refocusing, and see newspapers without 10 Trump stories at the top of the page. That’s not to say we aren’t still thinking about him. But there’s a wee bit of room for other thoughts, too. Here’s what writers are contemplating on Fourth Wave.
Esteemed expert on living single Bella DePaulo delivers the goods once again with her take on three books that belong on your reading list:
Spinsters: That’s Who We Are and We Own It about Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick.
Single, Female, and Accomplished: What That’s Like in China about Leftover in China, the Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake, and
Therapist Jennifer L. Taitz on Living Your Best Single Life about How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate.
Groundbreaking journalist Vicki Larson continues to deconstruct the myths about older women in her inspirational piece:
New contributor Shannon Mary Sims considers what gentrification is doing to her heart and soul in Where I Sit: I’m Not a Good Person, but Our Neighbors Might Be Changing Me
New contributor Rashmee Roshan Lall gives us an art lesson in In Artemisia Gentileschi, We See the Female Gaze
And we still had PLENTY of room for talk about Trump, politics, and the U.S. election, including:
Fear and Loathing on Election Day 2020 by astute political analyst Matthew John.
My Husband Voted and now I Don’t Have to Get Divorced by hilarious and genuine Tara Lyn Mallick
Thank You, Mr. Trump for Strengthening Democracy and Why Doesn’t Trump Take His ADHD Meds Every Day? by good doctor John Kruse
and my own contributions:
Trump is a Product That We’re Being Sold
My Favorite Responses to the Election
The ‘Welfare Queen’ Myth Still Lives
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And that’s the way it is, as Walter Cronkite used to say. Until next time, keep reading and writing.
Patsy Fergusson
Editor
Fourth Wave
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