Credit: Stephanie Madison
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Stephanie Madison

Here’s what art critic Jen Graves had to say after Donald Trump was elected president. It’s one of Stranger staffers’ favorite stories of 2016.

Yesterday morning as I was leaving the house I ran into a neighbor. She’s white, her husband’s Black, and they have a 3-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter. When the woman woke her daughter hours earlier and told her the outcome of the election, her daughter immediately asked, “Are they going to take Daddy away?”

Now here we were, a couple of white women—and another white woman friend of hers—standing on the street full of raging energy.

It’s time to do. So let’s start with that.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...