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For the week of July 12th

Roxane Gay
Jul 17, 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.

For The New York Times, I wrote about justice, both online and off, and how the former flourishes, sometimes beyond our control, because the latter is so elusive.

This week in Work Friend, advice for a wife whose husband wants her to work for his startup, a mentor seeking advice on how to prepare her mentee for the realities of the gendered workplace, someone who is considering coming out as bi, and someone who knows they are making less than someone who reports to them.

Our next book selection is The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade. Sign up on Literati to join our great discussions about the book of the month.

You can register here for that conversation on July 27th.

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.


On Shohei Otani, a gorgeous, muscular, tall drink of baseball water.

Billionaires going to space is ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Treating it as some sort of race is ridiculous. Also, they aren’t even going to real space. Let’s stop saying they are going to space. They are going to pre-space, at best. They are not astronauts.

Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan is out now! A confounding, challenging book.

The Emmy nominations are out. Some wonderful people are being recognized. There are also some confounding choices. This is how it goes!

On old women and how we never recognize their worth until they are aged.

McCormick is hiring a director of taco relations.

A profile of Julia Haart, the star of the new Netflix series My Unorthodox Life.

I’ve been getting to know the art of Emma Amos, and appreciated this piece about her legacy.

MAGA Starbucks.

Medicine expiration dates? A scam.

These profiles of Trump voters, even now that he is out of office, are ridiculous. We don’t need to know anymore about these people. They aren’t mysterious or unknown. The way this makes it all seem warm and fuzzy, people in search of a community, feels so wrong. These people may well be craving community but at what cost? And what does that community stand for? Not all community is good community, as evidenced by what took place on January 6th.

Melissa Febos wrote a beautiful essay about how she proposed to her wife.

On manifestos.

This disaster movie seems… like a problem.

Another day, another book from the Trump years, detailing one horror or another.

An interview with the women of Ted Lasso.

And speaking of Ted Lasso, a profile of creator and star Jason Sudeikis.

Cornel West wrote a resignation letter.

Authorities are trying to figure out who is responsible for the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. What they are finding out isn’t exactly surprising.

Carl Sagan was a real one, apparently.

A review of Savala Nolan’s new essay collection, which I am presently reading.

A former Olympian is paying for childcare for current Olympian women. Another real one.

Euro 2020 ended…. in a surprising way. And English football fans reacted in an unsurprising way.


Twitter avatar for @EoinHiggins_Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_
Tough times for the Brigham Young Virginity Club
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July 15th 2021

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With so many folks getting together with family and friends, there’s a lot to celebrate this summer. Here’s a playlist of songs I’ve been listening to lately—it's a mix of old and new, household names and emerging artists, and a whole lot in between.
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July 10th 2021

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you can’t have an olympics with no spectators where the fastest woman is in timeout for smoking weed. that is a PE class

July 8th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @arithisandthatArielle Nissenblatt (sounds like 'this and that') @arithisandthat
A podcast where parents try to explain what their adult children do for a living

July 9th 2021

10,749 Retweets124,031 Likes
Twitter avatar for @screaminbutcalmThe Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

March 12th 2019

36,815 Retweets125,873 Likes
Twitter avatar for @prophethusbandLosing it @prophethusband
Women love zooming in x100 on a nice picture you took of them and going “look at my knee here. I look completely fucked. I look insane”

July 15th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @ToyaRochelleLawToya @ToyaRochelle
Met my bf the traditional way. Being a whore. 🙏🏾❤️

July 10th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @lindatropplinda tropp @lindatropp
next time someone asks "so, as a professor, what do you do besides lecture in your classes?" hand them this image, carefully and thoughtfully constructed by @Unlazy_Susan (having answered this question on prior occasions, it usually takes me a full 15-20 minutes to do so...)
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June 30th 2021

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Say it ain't fucking so
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July 12th 2021

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This baby greets people with a head nod and a “Hey now how y’all?”
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July 13th 2021

16,031 Retweets170,054 Likes
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Sarah Pomranka
Writes Pom Pom's Mixtape ·Jul 17, 2021

What's the word for when a colonial, mothball-ridden, monarchy-supporting, "we're very much not a racist" country leaves the EU, creates a football team with immigrants, then loses on the last, breathless goal? Divine will.

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