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Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
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Scrabble Player
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Omaha
Nebraska
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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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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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When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
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Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
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Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
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Truth can hurt so very much.
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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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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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Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.
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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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There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.
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You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.
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