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I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships – fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

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Roxane Gay

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Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

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May 27, 2024

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

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May 27, 2024

When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don’t think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.

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