Rage is often associated with violence, expressed physically and directly. It’s something that can be experienced very intensely but intimately other times.
Women and femmes have always been expected to suppress their rage. For women of color, emotions are racialized, and we are expected to simply take the gaslighting and microaggressions we encounter daily. Our emotions are even sexualized or fetishized, not taken seriously or silenced by the cisheteropatriarchy.
Even in media, rage is restricted in its temporality and who can express this sentiment. In the age of movies Pearl, Black Swan, and Gone Girl, feminine rage is narrowly defined, and within the confines of masculine interpretations of anger.
It’s time to radically reclaim rage.
