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The Audacious Round Up

for the Week of August 16th

Roxane Gay
Aug 22, 2021
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Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman is available for pre-order. Yes, this link will be available in this newsletter until it goes on sale on 10/26.

Jenny Saville and I talk about fatness, feminism, art and more.

Audacious editor Brooke Obie implores us to leave fat black women alone.

Our next book selection is Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. Sign up on Literati to join our great discussions about the book of the month. You can register now for that conversation on August 24th.

Tressie, Debbie Millman and I are hosting a writing workshop retreat in July 2022. You can also register for this if you want to spend a weekend with us.

Roxane Gay Books is open for submissions.

I am partnering with Mayors For Guaranteed Income to publish a series of essays on a world where everyone’s basic needs are met. I’m calling the project Essays for Guaranteed Income. Consider submitting.


If you’re looking for a place to donate money to support recovery efforts in Haiti, this Google Doc lists vetted organizations.

Jimothy….

Loop Daddy…

An essay on Whitney Houston and our cultural understanding of her.

We watched Netflix’s The Chair in one evening and it was eerily accurate about what it is like to be a woman of color at a predominantly white academic institution. There were some strange missteps and inconsistencies in the show, and the forced romance aspect was silly. The academic politics, though, were spot on. Sandra Oh and Holland Taylor were excellent, as they always are. Have you seen The Chair? What did you think?

Heidi Julavits, a writer I really enjoy, chases some lava in Iceland. As one does.

An excerpt from Kiese Laymon’s exceptional memoir Heavy.

Hollywood has so many problems including the dearth of opportunities for writers to apprentice as showrunners.

Dollar stores are doing very well because, well, a great many people are in economic distress and rely on that price point to get the things they need for their homes.

People insist on making Dolly Parton a saint. A writer asks why.

Claire McNear asks, “Who is Mike Richards?” The answers are… illuminating.

Predictable. Entirely predictable. Who couldn’t have seen this coming?

Not everyone can participate in The Great Resignation.

Oxford American’s fall Southern literature issue is upon us.

A public health expert writes about her vaccine hesitancy.

OnlyFans is stepping away from porn which is fascinating as I didn’t know they offered anything but.

Isaac Fitzgerald’s forthcoming, Dirtbag, Massachusetts, has a cover!

Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about what we owe the victims of America’s numerous failed wars.

A new Noah’s Ark.

Understandable.

A very elaborate wedding. But congrats!

An interview with Nichole Perskins, the November Audacious Book Club author of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be.

On fact and fiction and the blurring of those lines.

Charlie Jane Anders has written a book on craft!

A profile of Camilla Cabello.

The consequences of gentrification for black homeowners.

The black architects who built New Orleans.

Jodie Turner Smith proposed to Joshua Jackson. Yes, I enjoy celebrity gossip. So much.

Old Navy is getting more inclusive in their sizing, with everything now going up to 4X both in stores and online. It’s a start though, there are plenty of people who wear sizes beyond 4X who deserve to feel good in their clothes, too.

Gawker rides again.

A conversation with Owen Wilson.


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“That’s not a bark.. Here’s how you bark!” 😂

August 21st 2021

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Proud to say I finally deleted my ex’s number! I memorized it

June 2nd 2021

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how am i supposed to live laugh love in these conditions

August 15th 2021

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Going to the doctor as a fat person

August 20th 2021

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"Jeopardy" is a noun meaning "peril or danger." Here it is in a sentence: "My job is in jeopardy because of my past comments."
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August 20th 2021

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washing your hands is amazing. your hands can be sooo filthy but then you wash them and it’s like nothing ever happened. i’m grateful for that every day

August 18th 2021

2,954 Retweets43,305 Likes
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I just saw someone refer to mansplaining as “correctile dysfunction” and I am deceased 💀

August 17th 2021

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Lady at the pharmacy asked a West Indian man for his “ID and insurance” to get vaccinated at Walgreens. When I tell you the whole HOOD yelled in unison “Uhh uhh Sir you don’t need insurance” followed by a couple “GTFOH” and “shyt too serious to be playin games.” My. People.

August 18th 2021

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The couch we ordered for our new house ended up being 46 inches 😐
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August 16th 2021

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Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario

August 15th 2021

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me: my stomach hurts all the time someone on twitter: at least you have a stomach

August 15th 2021

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August is like if Sunday were a month

August 16th 2021

37,296 Retweets343,129 Likes
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2020: omg we’re entering hell 2021: ok so how do we make hell cozy

August 12th 2021

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Micki Berthelot Morency
Aug 22, 2021

The Audacity newsletter is like a buffet. It offers so much. Sometimes I start in the middle, sometimes not. Depends what I'm in the mood for. LOL.

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Lizz
Aug 22, 2021

re: The Chair – The first episode was so realistic I wasn't sure I could watch the whole thing without triggering PTSD from 27 years as a professor (including a term as department chair).

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