What Watching a Furious Hillary Clinton Showed Me

At the beginning of the year, 2016 was trending on multiple social media platforms. Every couple of months, there’s a new wave of nostalgia online. I’m usually unmoved by these algorithmically manufactured moments, but thinking about my own hopefulness a decade ago has made me both depressed and angry.

My younger daughter was born that July, and her older sister was in preschool. A friend bought them “The Future Is Female” T-shirts, which were made by a small, woman-run business. These shirts expressed a level of earnestness that felt good at the time but in retrospect is........

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