Hey everyone, it's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Hello, friends.

Today, I am absolutely geeking out because we are joined by one of my favorite writers and researchers of all time.

Rebecca Traster is here with us today.

Tracer's first book, The Nonfiction, Big Girls Don't Cry,

The Election That Changed Everything for American Women, came out in 2010 and was a New York Times notable book. Her second nonfiction book,

All the Single Ladies, Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation in 2016 became a New York

Times bestseller and is one of the most well-researched, deeply informative examinations of

women's bids for independence and power spanning centuries.

In 2018, Tracer published another book, Good and Mad, The Revolutionary Power of Women's

Anger, which I think is hands down one of the best books I have ever read.

And in addition to being an award-winning writer covering women, politics, media, and

entertainment from a feminist perspective, Traster is a mother. She is married to a public defender.

She is an incredible human who really has perspectives on justice and equity and how we all participate in a society that's built for

everyone that I am so, so grateful for. And today, I'm going to ask her a million questions

about what she thinks is going to happen next week and how, no matter what happens, we can

continue organizing and building power to build a more equitable

society, especially for us ladies. Let's hear from Rebecca Traster.

I am so amped to have you here.

I am an enormous fan of your work. I so appreciate the way that you make research feel sexy and inspiring and like something people want to do.

I don't think that that is incredibly common.

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