'Sometimes I feel like there’s too much going on in the world around me, and it all cuts too closely to my bones. Writing anchors the important bits down, so I can manage the trauma accordingly. When I wrote a short essay titled ‘The Day Trump Won’ to cope with the fact that Donald Trump had become President—and to talk about myself—I expected it to end there. But Trump kept doing things, and I kept feeling things about the things he was doing.' (Introduction)