Mary Annaïse Heglar is the cohost and cocreator of the Hot Take podcast and newsletter. Her essays have appeared in TheBoston Globe, Vox, Rolling Stone, Wired, and other outlets. She is based in New Orleans.
No one sang me a lullaby about the future—and we shouldn’t do that for this generation of kids, either. They need the truth to start to prepare for the changes that are coming.