This interview reflects on Patricia Williams’s long history of directing our attention to rage, and especially the rage of women of color. She discusses various grim predictions she has made, which have come to pass in recent years. She also discusses the potential power of humor during these times of outrage and cruel racist and sexist jokes. Black women, Williams notes, have been silenced for decades, putting extra pressure on their dissenting voices. Donald Trump’s all-too-successful performativity depends on recycling existing sexist and racist tropes. As we create spaces of learning and protest, Williams argues, we need to remember those histories, the uneven affective burdens they impose, their challenges to privacy, and allow one another to make mistakes. Only then can we do the crucial work of coalition building, work that is always difficult but that now is absolutely necessary.

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问一个女权主义者：帕特里夏·威廉姆斯（Patricia Williams）与卡拉·卡普兰（Carla Kaplan）和杜巴·米特拉（Durba Mitra）讨论愤怒和幽默是一种不服从的行为

这次采访反映了帕特里夏·威廉姆斯将我们的注意力引向愤怒的悠久历史，尤其是有色女性的愤怒。她讨论了她所做的各种严峻的预测，这些预测近年来已经成为现实。她还讨论了在愤怒和残酷的种族主义和性别歧视笑话的时代，幽默的潜在力量。威廉姆斯指出，黑人女性几十年来一直保持沉默，对她们的反对声音施加了额外的压力。唐纳德特朗普非常成功的表演性取决于回收现有的性别歧视和种族主义比喻。威廉姆斯认为，当我们创造学习和抗议的空间时，我们需要记住这些历史、他们施加的不平衡的情感负担、他们对隐私的挑战，并允许彼此犯错。只有这样，我们才能做好联盟建设的关键工作，