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Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media

2024/8/8
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Roxane Gay discusses her experience with shooting and the appeal of gun ownership, despite not growing up in a gun culture.

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Roxane Gay is a writer, editor, podcaster, and culture critic. She has published a dozen books, including the seminal essay collection Bad Feminist, which just turned 10, and the memoir *Hunger — both are best sellers. *She writes a newsletter, The Audacity), and is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times where, until recently, she wrote the workplace advice column, Work Friend.

Gay recently published Stand Your Ground, an essay that explores what it means to be a Black, feminist gun owner and to exercise her constitutional right to bear arms when "the Second Amendment was never meant for Black people." Kara and Roxane discuss the essay, her burgeoning media empire, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

Stand Your Ground) is available now as an ebook/audiobook. 

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