It ain't easy be awake

During break time this week, Stacy voiced a commonly felt sentiment: it's depressing, frustrating, and just plain sucks to be conscious and awake to the legacies of oppression and colonization that have shaped our world. As Stacy was saying, in every waking moment, we can find evidence and cause for concern about how power and exploitation are alive and well. But, being a social justice public intellectual also means having a little hope and faith that we can act in liberatory ways, even though you get heart gets hurt a little bit over and over again. This essay about public news figure Rachel Maddow and depression breaks it down.