Rebecca Traister Comes to Rhode Island for Women’s Fund Benefit

With the recent news that "rage giving" -- philanthropic giving to offset the shrinking of civil society resulting from the election of Donald Trump -- is primarily driven by progressive women donors, the timing could not be better for Rebecca Traister's new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.  Particularly with the much-contested appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, progressive women's rage appears to be reaching a new crescendo, and the resultant giving to charity and politics may set new records. On October 15, Rebecca Traister came to a Richmond Street club called Alchemy in Providence, Rhode Island to read from her book and reflect on the many ways that rage has the potential to spur cr

Author: Kiersten Marek

Kiersten Marek, LICSW, is the founder of Philanthropy Women. She practices clinical social work and writes about how women donors and their allies are advancing social change.

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