When people are reading the news and it’s making them feel as if they’re barreling into a grim dystopian future, what additional context should they have that would help them complete the picture and show them that there are deeper currents of positive change happening? Even the right tells us something encouraging, if we listen carefully to what they’re saying. They tell us: You are very powerful. You’ve changed the world profoundly. All these things that are often treated separately — feminism, queer rights, environmental action — are connected, so they’re basically telling us we’re incredibly successful, which is the good news. The bad news is that they hate it and want to change it all back. There is a backlash, and it is significant. But it is not comprehensive or global. I was on a book tour last year in Europe, and the Europeans astounded me by being like: Oh, Roe v. Wade was overturned — doesn’t that mean feminism has failed? The United States is 4 percent of the population. Meanwhile, all these Catholic countries — Argentina, Mexico, Ireland, Spain — have greatly expanded reproductive rights and abortion access. And even though the overturning of Roe took away national protection, a lot of blue states strengthened it. So it’s really how you tell the story.