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Taking to the streets for\u00a0New York City\u2019s Trump\u00a0protests.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: Dustin Kirkpatrick.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Sunday evening, after four days of involuntarily clenching so badly that my jaw had started to ache too much to fully open, I dosed myself with painkillers and melatonin and finally got a full night of sleep. No bad dreams, only blackness. New York City has hummed with tension since the election\u2014most people I know feel as though we\u2019re in a nightmare we can\u2019t wake from. The best I\u2019ve been able to do so far is start at square one every day when I get up: turn on the kettle, read the headlines, jot a sentence in my diary, and remember to take a jacket on my way out the door.<\/p>\n

The protests that have roared up Fifth Avenue frightened me when they began last Wednesday evening; the pictures I saw on Twitter and Instagram captured a version of a city too unwieldy for me to comprehend. I flipped through countless posts of protesters\u2019 faces, indistinct except for their anger. Their crudely made signs were chilling in their simplicity: FUCK TRUMP<\/small>. I appreciated my peers\u2019 passion and readiness to action, but I was still too numb to be moved. What was the point? Trump won the election fairly. Weren\u2019t we flouting President Obama\u2019s call to \u201cgo forward with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens\u201d? Weren\u2019t we behaving like the faceless mob we\u2019d spent this entire campaign decrying? These, and many other questions, rattled me. So on Saturday morning, I did what I am inclined to do when I don\u2019t understand something: I grabbed a notebook and headed for the crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just outside the farmer\u2019s market at Union Square stood two women holding a sign on which they\u2019d markered FREE HUGS<\/small> in bright colors. They asked if I wanted one and though normally I am reticent about physical affection, I embraced them both. They had attended every protest that week and said they felt that, since the rallies on Wednesday, the mood had become less angry and more focused\u2014protesters had had time to process the election and were beginning to come up with solutions. \u201cWe have a right to peaceful protest and assembly,\u201d one said, \u201cbut as soon as it becomes violent, we lose everything we\u2019ve worked for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breezes carried the scent of eucalyptus through the air. Nearby, the farmers looked disgruntled, standing behind their stalls with their arms crossed. It was barely noon. \u201cThis is a huge disruption to a small-business day,\u201d one said, scowling. They\u2019d only been warned that morning about the rally, and protesters darted by without noticing the baskets of orange squash and sprays of kale. \u201cThey\u2019re completely oblivious about the fact that they\u2019re completely in the way,\u201d one farmer said. \u201cIt\u2019s a complete contradiction. I guarantee you only two percent of them voted.\u201d Many were contemplating closing for the day, though they\u2019d only been open for a few hours.<\/p>\n

Signs passed as we spoke: SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE<\/small>; HIDE YOUR KIDS, HIDE YOUR WIFE CAUSE TRUMP\u2019S RAPING EVERYBODY<\/small>; NOT MY PRESIDENT<\/small>; a headshot of Trump pasted next to the words BOY, BYE<\/small>.<\/p>\n

As I walked, zigzagging through the crowds, I spoke to just about anyone who made eye contact with me. At some point, I realized that it wasn\u2019t solely the act of reporting and writing I enjoyed, but the excuse to speak to people during this time of unrest and the privilege of helping them feel they were being heard. I used to fear reporting\u2014it\u2019s difficult to interpret another person\u2019s thoughts and perspective onto the page\u2014but today, I understood the power of taking down another person\u2019s words. I felt how important it was just to listen. I suppose I hadn\u2019t realized until then the extent to which I had spent the entire presidential campaign in front of a laptop, reading curated opinions of friends and strangers as they typed into the ether. I\u2019d forgotten that listening is an active act. It is a relationship.<\/p>\n

On Fifth Avenue, the marchers walked briskly and the atmosphere was cheerful, the autumn sun lit the protesters\u2019 faces. Cheers passed through the crowd in waves; I could hear them bubbling forward: \u201cWe reject the President-elect.\u201d \u201cNo hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an ardent walker\u2014I clear at least six miles every day, going to and from work\u2014but falling in step with people who fill the avenue as far as the horizon is a different experience. First, there\u2019s the visceral solidarity of it all, a reminder you\u2019re not alone in your depleted pacing, in your relentless anxiety. But there\u2019s also the reminder of the city\u2019s blessed diversity. Demographic representation is one thing\u2014I was heartened to see people of color, Spanish speakers, elderly couples, drag queens\u2014but a stubborn individuality was even more apparent, oddly enough, in the disposition of their walks, how one might slump forward or stride gracefully, whether she weaved impatiently through the crowd or locked arms with someone to keep time.<\/p>\n

At one point, I looked to my right and realized I\u2019d fallen in step with a tall, elegant man in striped white pants and a long, white cotton robe. His face and his handsome shock of blond hair were unmistakable.<\/p>\n

\u201cReverend Billy!\u201d I called to him.<\/p>\n

The Reverend, if you don\u2019t know him, is a New York City fixture\u2014he preaches the good word of anticonsumerism with his Stop Shopping Choir and the Not Buying It Band. They\u2019ve supported grassroots uprisings for years\u2014Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter. They\u2019ve even traveled outside of state lines to protest mountaintop removal in Appalachia.<\/p>\n

We marched for a while together and chatted about the election. Billy was somber but managed to eke out a few jokes. He said he never thought he\u2019d see the day that an angry, blond Elvis impersonator would be our president. \u201cBut that\u2019s me!\u201d he said, chuckling. \u201cWell not the president part, but everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marchers stopped to take his picture and shake his hand as we walked. \u201cYou know, we have to rethink our relationship with narrative,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been watching Trump and watching his ability to manipulate language. We need to discover a new way of speaking to each other that is more intimate. We need, like, the relationship equivalent of a CSA.\u201d<\/p>\n

He resignedly gestured to street signs and bored passerby on the side of the street as we chatted, pointing out glossy storefronts as evidence of a neighborhood that had become devoid of community intimacy\u2014places that have become vapid, in his words. Before I moved on to chat with other marchers, he pointed out a pile of fresh asphalt on the side of the street, then smiled at me, wearily.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we\u2019re rehumanizing this avenue, just by walking on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wei Tchou is a member of\u00a0<\/em>The New Yorker\u2019s\u00a0editorial staff and\u00a0is one of the\u00a0<\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondents.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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