Editorial: A Year of Resistance and Resilience

Abstract

As we wrote last year’s editorial, we thought this would be the year, after 43 male presidents, that the United States would elect its first woman president. Beyond our comprehension, a man, who spews hate speech against women, Mexicans, Muslims, and anyone who does not support and vow allegiance to him, is marginally elected by the electoral college. Where is the outrage about the outdated electoral college? Collective angst, felt by millions of people led to marches, letter writing campaigns, phone calls, texts, and tweets to Senators and Representatives of Congress, donated money, and continued protest against this election, which was likely influenced by Russian and/or another hacker interference. Thus, 2017 has become a year of resistance to transphobia, homophobia, racism, misogyny, climate change denial, religious persecution, deportation, among other human rights violations.