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Roxane Gay
American
Writer
Love
Me
People
Think
Women
You
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Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
Roxane Gay
Love
True Love
Loneliness
Me
Love Is
Out
Someone
True
Maybe
Notion
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.
Roxane Gay
Best
People
Speak
Opportunities
Opportunity
Reflection
Social Media
Collective
Face
Everyone
Worst
Unprecedented
Something
Outrage
Share
Attention
Also
Without
Issues
Offers
Social
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Much
Media
Sword
Bring
Marginalized
Needed
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
Roxane Gay
Love
Surrender
Woman
Not Perfect
Seen
Affection
Entirely
Perfect
Demands
Perhaps
Known
Sure
How
Am
Loved
Anyway
Acknowledging
Flawed
Deserve
Utterly
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.
Roxane Gay
Dreams
Long
Walks
Our
Our Dreams
Kind
Beach
True
Come
Supposed
Becomes
Where
Grail
Romantic
Place
Holy
Holy Grail
Evening
Utopia
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
Roxane Gay
Government
Religion
Constitution
Church
Free
First
Practice
Separation
Live
State
Our
Guided
Church And State
Religious
Laws
Never
Clear
First Amendment
Also
Without
Makes
Amendment
Interference
Zeal
I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.
Roxane Gay
Good
Wonderful
Try
Down
Totally
Someone
Disagreement
Like
Reach
Am
Common
Common Ground
Ground
No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.
Roxane Gay
Critics
Voices
No-One
Cultural
Use
Helped
Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.
Roxane Gay
Best
You
Be Happy
Happy
Nothing
Easier
Because
Friends
Going
Want
Successful
Your
I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.
Roxane Gay
Needs
Important
Important Things
Differences
Think
Our
Ways
Those
Though
Kinds
About
Most
How
Feminists
Affect
Womanhood
Common
The Most Important
Different
Acknowledge
Which
Us
Even
Based
Things
Start
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.
Roxane Gay
Women
Equality
Feminism
Philosophy
About
Misconceptions
Idea
Go
Years
Just
Being
Let Go
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.
Roxane Gay
Women
Experience
Reality
Other
Bachelor
Several
Television
Promise
Given
Pursuing
Throughout
Tale
Along
Like
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Any
Often
After
Happily
Reality Television
Season
Suffer
Ever
Ever After
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.
Roxane Gay
Long
Dreamed
Above
Something
Charming
Never
Prince
Supposed
Prince Charming
Tales
Princess
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Am
Enamored
Being
After
Happily
Fantasy
Flights
Resembling
Ever
Ever After
Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.
Roxane Gay
Black
Say
Favourite
Shades
Colour
Accessory
Pink
Used
Cool
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
Roxane Gay
Too
See
Like
Look
Historical
Closely
Figures
Many
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.
Roxane Gay
Work
Celebrate
Equality
Gender
Trouble
Feminism
Though
Run
Support
Message
Stigma
Feminist
Label
Celebrity
Anything
While
Avoiding
Actual
As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.
Roxane Gay
Best
Humanity
Feminism
Think
Claim
Bad
About
Seemed
Imperfections
Simply
Like
Also
Answer
How
Acknowledging
While
Started
We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.
Roxane Gay
Home
Great
Family
Black
Parents
Neighborhood
Secure
Black Family
Only
Could
Feel
Haitian
Safe
Were
Years
Providing
Often
Where
Wherever
Loving
Really
Certainly
Many
Lived
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths.
Roxane Gay
People
About
More
Write
Misperceptions
Countries
Haiti
Like
Because
Truths
Behind
Much
Hard
Multiple
I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations against him continue to capture our national attention because so much of the story is strange and sordid.
Roxane Gay
Strange
National
Thinking
Sick
Our
About
Allegations
Allen
Attention
Sordid
Him
Talking
Because
Nonetheless
Continue
Hearing
Woody
Woody Allen
Story
Against
Much
Capture
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.
Roxane Gay
Great
Age
Law
Internet
Assume
Great Britain
Symptom
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Minister
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Martial
Case
Colonies
Open
Prime
Prime Minister
Wrote
Call
Lord
Imposition
North
Satirical
Letter
Internet Age
Britain
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.
Roxane Gay
Attitude
Blame
Culture
World
College
Feminism
Think
Appropriate
Ways
About
College Students
Students
Toward
Learn
Greater
Advocate
Reflecting
Ambivalent
Help
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.
Roxane Gay
People
Radical
Every
Think
Define
Say
Okay
Case
Absolutely
Simply
Ideals
Ideas
Feminists
Oh
Just
Movement
Want
Mean
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
Roxane Gay
People
Think
Rule
Exception
He
Sterling
Donald
Disheartening
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.
Roxane Gay
Work
Music
Me
Women
Drive
Lyrics
Though
Rap
Degrading
Volume
Mortified
Am
Offend
Loud
Very
Listen
Choices
Even
Core
Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.
Roxane Gay
Health
Freedom
Fight
Women
Will
Our
Ongoing
Remind
She
How
Done
Reproductive
Placing
Us
Bill
Margaret
When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.
Roxane Gay
Me
Parents
Country
Took
Our
Summer
Everywhere
Ancestors
Brothers
About
Beach
Beaches
Could
Haiti
Particular
Haitian
Know
Because
Island
Snobby
Child
Get
Even
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