“No one is okay.”
I think anyone with a scrap of sentience would agree with this one. We’re navigating a period of collective grief, disaster, melancholia, and despair in real time, and we can’t stop tweeting about it.
Can you blame us?
In just the past few weeks, Texas passed a law banning almost all abortions in the state and the Supreme Court did nothing to stop it. A forever war ended without conclusion, leaving a huge death toll and worsening refugee crises in its wake. A deadly hurricane triggered a succession of disasters across the country, destroying homes and overpowering already rocky infrastructure on multiple coasts. At least three million are at risk of becoming unhoused with the end of the COVID eviction moratorium and two pandemic-specific unemployment benefit programs are over. Voting rights remain on the chopping block and — lest we forget — all of this is happening amid the backdrop of a global pandemic that rages on, just in time for back to school.
As the barrage of bad news, known as life in 2021, remains dialed all the way up, various iterations of “No one is okay” proliferate across my timeline. The banality of this simple declaration, juxtaposed with the gravity of this moment in time, feels significant. There’s a lot going on. And while there has been for a while, it feels like our collective capacity for handling immense stress is just about tapped out. In 2019, shortly after being elected to her first term in Congress, Representative Alexandria...
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