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I pushed around some nachos on my plate and tried to tell myself that everything would be ok. It was about 9:00pm on election night, and Trump was leading in electoral votes. Not enough to predict what the outcome of the election would eventually be, but enough to make me a little bit nervous. \u201cFeeling pretty good about the fact that I have an Irish passport right now,\u201d I said to my boyfriend, who was sitting at the bar with me watching the election results come in. I said it jokingly, completely unaware that in just a few hours, Canada\u2019s immigration website would crash and the reality of Donald Trump as a president would sink in.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few hours earlier, I was sitting in the library working on a presentation for the next day. I wasn\u2019t paying much attention to the election results: it was still early, and everything and everyone around me indicated that I had no need to worry about the election. It was only when my boyfriend texted me to ask how the election was looking that I googled \u201celection results\u201d and saw for the first time that Trump was ahead. \u201cIt looks bad right now, but it\u2019s just because only the results from Southern states have come through so far, and we knew Trump would win those. She\u2019ll probably take the lead in a little bit,\u201d was what I texted my boyfriend along with a picture of the map of the US, the middle part of it covered in red. <\/span><\/p>\n

Later that night, as I started to get worried at the bar, my boyfriend reassured me: \u201cThere\u2019s no way. Why are you even worrying?\u201d We didn\u2019t have any concrete reason to think this, but we believed in it. I had just spent the weekend with my father, whose opinion I value more than just about anyone\u2019s. He called Trump a \u201cmaniac\u201d and acknowledged the support he has in America but said that there was no way he would be elected. My father has never voted Democrat in his entire life, and on the Monday before the election, he cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton. I reminded myself of my father\u2019s words as the votes continued to roll in. Maybe I\u2019m more naive than I realized. <\/span><\/p>\n

I woke up the next morning feeling like someone had died. I managed to stay up until around 12:45 am, when Hillary\u2019s chance to win relied on Philadelphia, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. I knew it was looking bad, but I also knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to fall asleep once they had officially announced that Donald Trump was our new president. I had work at 9 the next morning and needed to sleep, so I shut off the TV. I felt disgusted and afraid. I shut my eyes and prayed to God to please pick the right candidate for our country. I\u2019m a Catholic, but I don\u2019t regularly pray. But as I saw Trump\u2019s number of electoral college votes rise and rise, I could think of nothing else to do. <\/span><\/p>\n

I felt my phone buzzing underneath my head the entire night, but I couldn\u2019t bring myself to look at it. I couldn\u2019t bear to read the CNN and New York Times notification that informed that a racist, sexist, mysoginistic man who had spent his entire campaign bringing other people down was my new president. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have never felt ashamed of being American. I have never truly felt ashamed of my country, despite some of the horrible things that have happened in my lifetime here. The next morning, my boyfriend, who is from India and quite proud of the bushy beard he\u2019s been growing for the last month, joked to me that \u201cNow that Trump\u2019s president, I\u2019ll have to shave off this beard.\u201d I laughed for a split second before feeling a sharp pang of sadness. I was ashamed of my country. <\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what more proof we need that the accomplishments of women, no matter how smart and qualified they are, will continue to be overshadowed by men. Today, America took about 50,000 steps backwards. My journalism professor told me later that day that \u201cas a woman, [i] would have less control over my body than ever before.\u201d My accomplishments, my salary, and my body are at the whims of the government. Two white males are going to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body. <\/span><\/p>\n

The day Trump was elected, I watched people openly weep on the subway. One of my peers teared up as she asked our professor, \u201cwhat now? Where do we go from here?\u201d I exchanged soft, sad smiles with random women on the street. My professor ended class that day by telling us to go home and be with people — that we shouldn’t be alone during a time like this. We had to be with friends and try to remember why we love this city so much. <\/span><\/p>\n

I felt the same way the day that Trump was nominated president as I did the days after the Boston marathon bombing. People talked to each other very carefully and my teachers reminded me that they were always there if I wanted to talk. The entire Greater Boston Area smiled at each other a little bit more: in a sad, commiserative way. The Boston marathon bombings injured over 250 people and killed 3. I should not be reminded of this day on the day my country elects a new president. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want to raise children in a place where the leader of the country has not repeatedly made women, immigrants, LGBTQ, and people of color feel that their voice isn’t worth hearing. I want my little girl — if I have one — to grow up knowing that her voice matters just as much as all the men and she is beautiful and strong. I want my little boy — if I have one — to know that he is strong and capable and to accept people who are different from him. I feel so grateful I don’t have any children to explain trumps candidacy to. <\/span><\/p>\n

My boyfriend called his friend to speak to him about the election the day Trump was nominated. Through his half Gujarati, half English conversation I caught the following bits of phrases: \u201cUS super power\u201d and \u201cUS is a joke.\u201d The night before, when I knew Trump would be elected, I asked my half asleep boyfriend if he would stay in US with me even though trump would be our leader. I know I would think twice about it if I were him. He told me \u201cof course I will\u201d and went back to sleep, while my mind nervously tried to come to terms with a Trump presidency. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the next 4 years, my voice will be silenced. My boyfriend\u2019s, as an immigrant and a brown man, voice will be silenced. So many of my best friends, as people of color and various sexualities, will have their voices silenced. But you can be damn sure we aren’t going down without a fight. <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s November 9, 2016 and Donald Trump has been the announced president for less than 24 hours. But just 30 blocks uptown from me, outside the Trump Towers, are people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, sexualities, and socio-economic backgrounds that are protesting and fighting for our rights. My voice might be silenced, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be heard. For the next four years, I plan on loving and screaming so loud that no one has a choice but to listen. Trump\u2019s candidacy does not mean we have to be silent. This might be a step back for America, but this is not the end for us. I will hang on to the faith I have for my country with everything I’ve got. This is a country worth fighting for, filled with people that are willing to fight. So let’s fight together. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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