The Audacity.

The Audacity.

A Very Hard Year

Looking back at 2021

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Roxane Gay
Jan 19, 2022
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On January 6th, 2021, we were in Los Angeles with my parents. My dad and I were watching CNN and working in the family room. I think Debbie was upstairs in her office and my mom was puttering around the house. And then incomprehensible images began flashing across the scene and we watched, in real time, an insurrection encouraged by the soon to be forme…

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