![]() ![]() But what women are supposed to do with this anger is where Chemaly’s book left me wanting more. Having Chemaly in my head helped me to affirm her anger, and to take care to listen and offer support. But all this was enough to make anyone go: Kwon published the harrowing piece, ‘On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted.’ In The New York Review of Books, author Sady Doyle wrote a powerful piece about anger called ‘A Kind of Forgiveness.’ Also during this time I came across this heartbreaking and terrifying article in The Wall Street Journal, ‘Women in Latin America Are Being Murdered at Record Rates.’ I’m sure there were many more that I missed. She was eventually granted asylum in Canada. In Thailand, an 18-year-old Saudi Arabian woman named Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room while seeking refugee status after fleeing what she said was an abusive family and threats to her life after she renounced Islam. ![]() In Tennessee, the governor commuted the life sentence of Cyntoia Brown, a 30-year-old woman forced into prostitution as a teenager, who at the age of 16 killed a man who had picked her up for sex because she thought he was going to kill her. ![]() While I was reading ‘Rage Becomes Her,’ news and essays that popped into my Twitter feed reinforced the evidence and themes of the book. ![]()
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