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Contents:
- FEMIST IN ROXANE GAY SHUTS DOWN NOTOR RTRANT TROLL
- ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
- WHY ROXANE GAY TURNED TO OVEREATG AFTER BEG GANG-RAPED AT AGE 12
- HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
- ROXANE GAY
FEMIST IN ROXANE GAY SHUTS DOWN NOTOR RTRANT TROLL
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‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
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WHY ROXANE GAY TURNED TO OVEREATG AFTER BEG GANG-RAPED AT AGE 12
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HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
”Gay and her two younger brothers grew up a lovg, relig, strict hoehold Omaha, Nebraska. ”‘The world feels entled to your trma’ … Hunger, Gay wrote spare and ntatory prose of what she had touched upon Bad Femist.
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