Weathering This Storm
It has been 10 days since the 2024 elections in the United States. Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris, and here in New York City, there’s still a strange, eerie energy in the streets.
For me, as a Black woman in public, I felt the stares, the pauses, and the comments sent my way, like, “Welp, here we are,” “We have to stick together,” and “Thank God we live in a blue state.”
I chose not to comment. I didn’t fill the empty space; I didn’t bring up the election—because as a collective, my group, we did our job.
