Rage Is A Red Lesson

Published: May 12, 2018, 10 a.m.

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Shortly after the birth of her first child, a letter-writer who calls herself \\u201cTantrum Daughter\\u201d lost her mother to suicide. Now, with a second child on the way, Tantrum Daughter is overcome with pain and anger. After reading Morgan Jerkins\\u2019s essay \\u201cHow I Overcame My Anger as a Black Writer Online,\\u201d the Sugars enlist her help to answer Tantrum Daughter\\u2019s letter. Ms. Jerkins frequently taps her own anger in her essays on police brutality. The Sugars and Ms. Jerkins discuss the connection between trauma and rage, and \\u2026

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