Rage Is A Red Lesson
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Shortly after the birth of her first child, a letter-writer who calls herself “Tantrum Daughter” 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’s essay “How I Overcame My Anger as a Black Writer Online,” the Sugars enlist her help to answer Tantrum Daughter’s 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 …
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| 0:00.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:09.8 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Steve Olman. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:15.6 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh dear son, won't you please? |
| 0:26.3 | She has some little sweet days we'd be. |
| 0:33.3 | I check my bell by every day. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, and this sugar, using my way. |
| 0:49.3 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:51.3 | So we're going to talk about... |
| 0:54.3 | Rage. |
| 0:55.3 | Rage. |
| 0:56.3 | I think of you Cheryl as a very positive and upbeat person, but I do. |
| 1:02.3 | I do. |
| 1:03.3 | So my question is, are there moments where that has not been the case where you have been |
| 1:09.0 | out of control angry? |
| 1:10.8 | It depends what you mean by out of control. |
| 1:13.8 | I do sometimes lose it and I'll tell you this. |
| 1:16.8 | I didn't ever really have to consciously think about my anger and how I express my anger |
| 1:23.8 | until I became a mother and was every day confronted with some outrage that puts me in touch |
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