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For the Week of May 31st

Roxane Gay
Jun 7, 2021
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Register now for our discussion with Gabriela Garcia.

Just wanted to give a shout out to Monica Monroe who designs the book club graphics each month. If you’re looking for a great designer, look no further.

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford has a luminous review in the New York Times.

Today (6/6) is my one year wedding anniversary. Never thought I would say those words.


Barbara Ehrenreich’s daughter became… a cop?

Jenée Desmond-Harris was my editor at the NYT for quite a while and now she is Dear Prudence! The first installments of her column have been amazing. I love advice.

There is a new breed of apps that encourage vigilantism and outsource law enforcement and it’s something we should all be worried about.

Nicole Chung writes about the fatigue of having to educate white people.

R.O. Kwon writes about white silence in the face of the Anti-Asian hate and discrimination we’ve seen over the past eighteen months.

Michael Arcenaux, always with interesting things to say, writes about returning home.

I’ve always wondered why various sports governing bodies insist on making athletes sit for journalist interrogation, especially after rough losses. Naomi Osaka has had enough.

Michael J. Twitty will be leading an Atlas Obscura experience about Jewish food.

Katt Williams on cancel culture.

This is quite the twist on book burning.

An appreciation of small menus.

The Wigleaf 50 for 2021 is up.

Well, here’s a headline.

About all those corporate pledges to fight racism…

Why book pre-orders matter.

There are a lot of benefits to working from home, including having to deal with fewer microaggressions.

If you’re enjoying Netflix’s High on the Hog, here is a reader.

Oof… Scientology.

Racism.

LAist has an infuriating but really well done report on the precarity of life in Los Angeles’s unpermitted apartment buildings.

A really useful guide to gender identity terms from NPR.

The Man: A Compilation, from Rebecca Hazelton. Anyone who has spent time in the literary community will find resonance in this piece.

Americans love their drinking, apparently.

I have a card in this literary tarot deck and I’m excited for it to come out. You can support the Kickstarter.

CeCe Telfer is pursuing her dream of running in the Olympics.

Naomi Osaka stood up for herself and declined to do press at this year’s French Open. She’s a black woman advocating for herself, she has power and she is beholden to no one and that’s a dangerous thing. It has been quite a roller coaster in the ensuing days. She ultimately dropped out of the French Open after being fined $15,000 and is stepping away from tennis which is definitely not what the French Open was expecting when they tried to push back in some obnoxious, predictable ways. Anyway, here is a good piece on the role of the press in professional sports and the damage journalists can do.

This week I also learned that there are off-brand versions of the KKK! Dollar Store KKK!

I am pretty bummed that Mare of Eastown has come to an end. I enjoyed every episode and this profile of star Kate Winslet.

Mary Ruefle on menopause.


Twitter avatar for @rihannaRihanna @rihanna
the do it yourself issue 🙌🏿 @vogue_italia
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June 2nd 2021

54,443 Retweets374,921 Likes
Twitter avatar for @tressiemcphdTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd
Have you ever, in a rare moment of extreme desperation and stupidity, asked a man for his advice on something? Is your soul still in your body?

June 1st 2021

276 Retweets6,874 Likes
Twitter avatar for @onnlyfeelsJ á m é s 💐 @onnlyfeels
"can u multitask" yes actually i am losing my mind and chilling at the same time

June 1st 2021

152,725 Retweets516,810 Likes
Twitter avatar for @Ryan_Ken_ActsRyan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts
The worst jobs have the best coworkers

May 28th 2021

25,937 Retweets209,417 Likes

Twitter avatar for @tressiemcphdTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd
I would listen to a show called, “How Do They Stay in Business??” that’s just explaining how that random business in your community that never has any customers stays. in. business.

May 28th 2021

4,718 Retweets80,436 Likes
Twitter avatar for @chris_notcapnchris evans @chris_notcapn
NOT BOO HOO 😩💀
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May 26th 2021

19,598 Retweets108,886 Likes
Twitter avatar for @KMurryByrdKelsey Byrd, DO, MBS @KMurryByrd
Soooo my husband just came crashing through the attic of our new home today after I told him to leave the work up there to the professionals and I— Anyway, how is your day going? 🥲
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May 27th 2021

27,066 Retweets315,966 Likes
Twitter avatar for @SethrogenSeth Rogen @Sethrogen
Happy 40th birthday McLovin. (We wrote this joke when we were 14 years old)
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June 3rd 2021

51,517 Retweets361,499 Likes
Twitter avatar for @TheKitchenistaAngela @TheKitchenista
My daughter finally confronted me about the tooth fairy being a lie. “I knew it! I knew I saw something WAY bigger than a fairy!” 💀💀 Do not have children, ok? 😭

June 3rd 2021

1,054 Retweets14,257 Likes
Twitter avatar for @LeslieMacLeslie Mac @LeslieMac
Auntie meeting due to a potato salad crisis. These women are CONCERNED.
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May 30th 2021

12,586 Retweets76,260 Likes

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Lori M
Jun 10, 2021

Happy anniversary and best wishes for many more years of joy. Thank you for highlighting the Mary Ruefle menopause piece, I loved it.

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Winshen Liu
Writes The Slow Life ·Jun 9, 2021

Just wanted to wish you a happy anniversary!

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