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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.
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Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.
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Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.
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Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.
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So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.
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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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My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.
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Truth can hurt so very much.
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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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I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.
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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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I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
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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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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
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We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.
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And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that as beautiful, which it is, and that's incredibly frustrating, so for every gain or benefit that the internet offers there is a liability.
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It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.
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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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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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