Fucking right. Now maybe the world will get fixed, because obviously we can’t do it. The BBC looks back on 2019 as a year of “rage” in women’s essays.
The old adage ‘the personal is political’ is finding truly exciting new applications. The feminist women’s essays of 2019 combine stringent forensic analysis with fearless movement in and out of autobiography. The personal is elbowing its way rudely into the discourse, and altering the definition of being rude. In the process, new kinds of personhood are being created.