Grieving on International Women’s Day

I look at people with whom I interact a little different now. I wonder, do you, too, hate women so much that you’d vote for a felon who incited an insurrection against our country?

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Grieving on International Women’s Day is an op-ed by Sarah Reese Jones.

International Women’s Day is a global holiday meant to celebrate women’s accomplishments and commemorate their fight for equality. It used to be called International Working Women’s Day, in fact.

And there is so much to honor and of which to be proud, but if I’m being honest with you all, the biggest emotion I have this Women’s Day is grief.

I’m still grappling with the fact that two incredibly competent and hard-working women have been beaten in a presidential election by a now known adjudicated sex assaulter and felon.

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I look at people with whom I interact a little differently now. I wonder, do you, too, hate women so much that you’d vote for a felon who incited an insurrection against our country?

The way I allowed myself to imagine and to hope both times to see …