I have had a man treat me the way our president elect says he can treat women and I feel like that man is threatening me again. I have spent the night reassuring friends of color and in the LGBTQ community that I have their back even as I, as a woman and an academic, fear for my own future. I have spent the evening wanting to apologize to friends around the world for the harm that will inevitably come to them, and their children, from this presidency.

I have had my issues with Clinton, not least on the subject of the Iraq War and general neoliberalism, but I voted for her, proudly, with tears of joy in my eyes yesterday. And I feel for her now. No one has a ‘right’ to the presidency, but for the most qualified candidate in history, and one manifestly more suited to the moment/addressing the very issues Trump voters said they wanted addressed, to lose to such an appalling excuse for a human is incomprehensible.

I am sorry, world. I am ashamed. For anyone reassuring their children today, please know that there ARE Americans who reject hate and selfishness.”