I've signed every petition I can find online to try and stop this joke of a president-elect. I've taken to wearing a safety pin every day. But neither one is enough, not by a long shot. The petitions, who knows if those will even be seen. The pin, while a nice gesture, is just that, a gesture. It's not action. I feel so lost and I want all those marginalized by this asshole, by his legion of assholes, to know that I support them. That they're not alone. I want the world to know that not all Americans are racist, xenophobic, homophobic, mysogynistic pieces of shit. I feel like everyone is going to hate us even more now. And for the first time in my life, I feel afraid to be a woman (but God help anyone who tries to do anything to me. I will end them.) I hate feeling this way though. And I want to do something about it.

I don't care if someone is Muslim, Christian, LGBTQ, Male, Female, Neither, Both, WHATEVER. People are people and we all deserve respect and common decency.

But what can we do to make some kind of change? I feel like volunteering somewhere would be a good start, but where? And how? I can bitch and moan on the internet until the cows come home, but I want to do something more. Ugh.

Tell me I'm not the only one feeling like this. Tell me what you're doing. Tell me we can still do something that matters.

I attended a local protest last night and despite the few people who decided to flip us the finger or shout something hateful it was an overall positive (and peaceful) experience. At one point our group (about 40 people) started singing together...the sense of unity and love was so powerful I was on the verge of tears. It was very healing, for me at least, to find so much support in the community. Love will always be stronger than hate, last night reassured me of this.

I would suggest surrounding yourself with others wanting to make a difference, we're stronger together. Most importantly, take action against discrimination when you see it. Hate crimes have surged since the election and, while I have personally not been confronted with such a situation, should the time come I have every intention of shoving my anxiety aside and standing up to defend any person against hatred.

That sounds really nice. I would love to go to something like that. I would really like to go to the million woman march in DC, but I don't know if I could do it on my own. I'd need a good friend to go with me. I'm not really good with crowds or people in general.

You better believe I'd take action against a hate crime if I saw one happening right near me. I suffer from social anxiety, but when it comes to telling someone off for being an asshole, that I can do. I wish I could have been there for this student in town who got harassed horribly for wearing a hijab. This man told her he'd set her on fire if she didn't take it off. I would have told him off and stayed with her for sure. No one should be subjected to that crap.

A good friend of mine is going to the march in DC and I wish I could go with her! I have a lot of animals so an overnight trip is pretty much out of the question. But I'll continue to do what I can from here. Ugh that's terrible! I hope someone stood up for her and put that guy in his place. I also suffer from severe anxiety but I would never be able to just stand by and watch something like that go down. Recently a gay student was attacked (and more victims have come forward since) just a few towns away from mine. As a member of the LGBTQIA community I've been extremely fearful since the election (for a few days I didn't even wanna leave the house) but last night was very helpful. Crowds usually throw me into a panic too but somehow I just felt...safe with that group.

What's a safety pin?

I'm actually not doing anything about Trump. I'm not American, so I guess I'm not going to be affected. It was a really huge let-down that he won. I thought Americans were better then that. They also want to keep Canada out, which I don't understand.

Can you guys help me understand a little bit about this situation? I'm going to use a few things that have happened in my country (Brazil) as an example.

In '14, we had our last presidential elections. The elections were as close as the one in the US. This, just like it's happening over there, led to many people going to the streets to protest against the elected president. In our case, lots of political games happened and our elected president ended up getting impeached (even though there was no proved crime) and the VP (who had turned against the pres) is our new president now.

Through all this, lots of protests happened and our people have been discussing politics way more since then.

However, as much as I disagree with what happened to our originally elected president (for personal reasons), I was pissed off at the people prostesting and asking for her to be impeached for the simple reason that she was not the president they wanted. I'm not saying I agree with Trump's ridiculous statements and continuous lies, but why do you guys feel the need to protest against him being elected? Doesn't that go against the whole democratic and electoral system?

Sure, he's probably going to go down as one of the worst (or at least most useless) presidents in history. But he was still fairly elected. Wouldn't it be more productive to spread the word about people actually voting? From what I read, almost half of the population didn't even bother voting. Shouldn't that be a major concern?