Andrea Tate is an essayist currently working on her memoir, 'I’ll Show You,' about her acting career in New York City and Hollywood. Some of her essays can be found in Hippocampus Literary Magazine, Entropy, Role/Reboot, Angels Flight West and more. She is a university writing professor pursuing her PhD in leadership and change.
The author with her"I Voted" sticker on Nov. 5, 2024, and Donald Trump , who will begin his second White House term in January.I knew he voted red. He knew I voted blue. I had hoped the most capable and most inclusive candidate would win. He hoped his idea of a better America would win. He won, and, from where I stand, America lost.
I immediately texted, “I love you, but out of respect for me and all my liberal writer friends, can you please take down that post? Also, tell your family I love them, but I will not be coming for Thanksgiving, and I won’t be hosting Christmas. I need space.”“I am sorry,” he said, “I understand.” I wrote to my artist friends and told them to keep shining their lights. I wrote to my musician son in college and his songwriter girlfriend. I told them to keep creating. I wrote to my young nieces, who were terrified, and told them I was there for them. I wrote to my beautiful gay cousin and said I loved him and was thinking of him and his partner.I received a message from a family member who told me her Ukrainian friend was petrified.
Will it be fine? I have wondered that since 2016, when I saw my husband’s stubbornness.
But I will not give thanks and hold hands in a circle with people who voted for a party that wants to take rights away from LGBTQ people. I will not pass the turkey to someone who supports people who have signaled they will cause harm to people with disabilities and the elderly.
Instead, I got up and made my own coffee. I put our clothes in the dryer. I let the dog out. I went back upstairs and got dressed for the gym. I did more of the little everyday human things that we’re forced to keep doing, even though many of us just want to curl up in a ball and cry. But we can’t. We won’t.I stood briefly at our blue front door — the one I painted last year when I changed all the red in our house to blue. At the time, I thought it was just my obsessive need to redecorate.
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