It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.Īnger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved.

It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is rational thought and irrational pain.

It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. Have a question, comment, or a topic you’d like us to cover? call us at (323) 643-3768 or visit megandevine.“Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. Together, we can make things better, even when they can’t be made right. Tune in, subscribe, leave a review, send in your questions, and share the show with everyone you know. Thanks for listening to this week’s episode of Here After with Megan Devine. If you want to explore your anger with creative prompts and exercises, check out the guided journal for grief, How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed. To read more about anger and how it relates to grief, check out It’s OK that You’re Not OK. If you’re not familiar with her excellent work on ambiguous loss (a term she coined in the 1970s), check out her website at Find her best selling book, Rage Becomes Her at. A prolific writer and speaker, her articles appear in Time, the Verge, The Guardian, The Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. She is the Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women’s freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. Finding your best community by embracing your anger.How the old split between the head (logic) and the heart (emotion) cuts us off from what we most want.Why Soraya says “most grief is ambiguous grief”.What would “anger competence” or “anger literacy” look like? (and why would you want that?).Why deciding some emotions are “good” and some are “bad” isn’t really helpful.But what if reclaiming our anger was the way to build the world - and the relationships - we most want?Īll of that and more with the best selling author of Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly. They’re deeply related, as you’ll hear in this two-part episode: both grief and anger are considered “negative” emotions, things you shouldn’t feel, and definitely shouldn’t express in polite company. In a lot of ways, anger is more taboo than grief. What do we lose when we’re not allowed to be angry?

Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly