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Roxane Gay
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
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Omaha
Nebraska
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I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.
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Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
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The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.
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People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
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Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
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I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.
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I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.
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With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
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People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.
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I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
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Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?
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I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
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Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
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My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
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The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.
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I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
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Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
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When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.
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I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.
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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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