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What Are You Afraid Of?
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The day after the 2016 presidential election, I initiated an open call to illustrators to draw their deepest fear during a Trump presidency. Nine of the drawings were published that weekend in the New York Times's Sunday Review section.
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The New York Times
YEAR
November 2016
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I fear that my body will no longer be my own.
—PING ZHU, New York
![muradov.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_5946af7a0b47419ebbfe110590435342~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/muradov.jpg)
The fear that the only thing connecting us is our failure to connect.
—ROMAN MURADOV, San Francisco
![cen.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_b9f8e3bd3f844ff283a0ca0f28e3b693~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/cen.jpg)
I fear the monster that dwells within each of us, no matter what we believe in.
—JUN CEN, New York
![zender.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_775bbacebcc5414cb1ce560e99c86b58~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/zender.jpg)
My deepest fear is not being able to protect and provide for my child, if I ever have one.
—DANIEL ZENDER, New York
![yoon.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_cf0666b7da194dc0a50cad49ec65b144~mv2_d_1399_1399_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/yoon.jpg)
I wondered who each person I encountered had voted for — a worm of doubt had crawled into my brain.
—JOOHEE YOON, New York
![barczyk.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_36bb36417eaa4931a5a6cd0dc44205dc~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/barczyk.jpg)
Fear of hate speech
—FRANZISKA BARCZYK, Toronto
![kittler.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_75edf9d621234308bef4a46148f79dfe~mv2_d_1399_1399_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/kittler.jpg)
I might become a passive stone that escapes in thinking instead of taking action.
—CYNTHIA KITTLER, Offenbach am Main, Germany
![mazzetti.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_777b29063e774d2b8e1c176b902ef641~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/mazzetti.jpg)
The scariest thing is having to face the other me.
—SARAH MAZZETTI, Bologna, Italy
![odutola.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/072dc5_9f8a8e36cc5c4e2daae2e4c28e698d18~mv2_d_2048_2048_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_152,h_152,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/odutola.jpg)
I fear the regression of rights and policies that protect us. But I am still working — and that is affirming.
—TOYIN ODUTOLA, New York
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