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For the week of June 28th

Roxane Gay
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I am genuinely surprised and honored to be a short story nominee for this year’s Shirley Jackson awards for my short story “Graceful Burdens.”

In this week’s Work Friend, I answer questions about pronouns and gender bias, grief when a coworker dies by suicide, and offices vs. open floor plan work environments.

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.

Speaking of… Debbie wrote a beautiful essay about her journey to queerness and coming out at 50. You can read it in the Washington Post magazine.

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.

This week on @heartoslay, Tressie and I talk about making our homes a home, and we speak with the winner of HGTV's Design Star: Next Gen, Carmeon Hamilton about how to curate our spaces and her new show about home design for renters!!! Listen in.

This week’s Emerging Writer Series essay is “The Scream Gap” by Celia Mattison. It is deft film criticism about race, gender, trauma, and much more.

Roxane Gay Books is open for submissions.


Lauren Berlant died this week. They were a force to be reckoned with and were profiled, a couple years ago, in The New Yorker.

Zola, directed by Janicza Bravo and co-written by Bravo and Jeremy O’Harris, is out now. I saw an early screening of this movie and saw it again this week. I love this movie, from its origin story to how the story was realized on the big screen. The movie is stylish, sharp, incredibly funny, and as the story unravels, the humor blends into something darker, but just as resonant. Go see it.

Terrible men are always enabled. Always.

What happens when a writer who writes about law tries to help a man be freed from prison?

Meanwhile, here is a man who actually did a crime, more than sixty in fact, and is being released from prison. Total bullshit.

Jenée Desmond-Harris is not only the new Dear Prudie, she is also writing an advice column on race for The New York Times.

The horrors that have been forced upon indigenous peoples is…. beyond words.

There are many housing crises and of course a tech company would try to “disrupt” the world of temporary housing aka flophouses.

This reconstruction of the events of January 6th is fascinating and chilling and really well done.

This doesn’t… look good.

Black creators want credit and compensation for their creative work and intellectual property.

Three Haitian brothers went to the DR on vacation and have been stuck there for a year. It’s a really sad, frustrating story and of course, the U.S. government is doing very little to help these brothers one of whom is a citizen and two who are permanent residents.

Racist nonsense.

The Dodgers must do something about Trevor Bauer.

Tabitha Brown read Wendy Williams for absolute filth but in the classiest, most vicious way possible. With prayer.

Kimberly Drew, co-editor of Black Futures, talks about how to surround yourself with art at home.

An interview with Colman Domingo.

A profile of Janicza Bravo, director of Zola, which I highly recommend.

And another profile of Bravo. And one more review.

I enjoyed this meditative piece on writing a novel.

Scaachi Koul reviewed Netflix’s Sex Life which sounds dreary as hell but it stars Carmen from The L Word.

I missed this controversy but my goodness, we have got to figure out how to have critical discourse without behaving in batshit ways. And we have to figure out how to consume culture without automatically assuming bad intentions. What happened to Isabel Fall is shameful and inexcusable.

Adam Serwer on why Trumpist politics continue to flourish despite his 2020 election loss.

Deadline is sharing some of the scripts of shows we’ll be talking about during this award season.

A new short story by Amy Silverberg.

LeVar Burton should host Jeopardy.

A lot of resources and effort went into keeping the previous president alive when he got COVID. 🤐

Ilana Glazer stars in a new Hulu film, False Positive, which I recently saw. It’s very strange and disturbing. It was interesting to see her in this type of role.

Too little, too late.

Abolition now, except for Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and 45.

Hollywood sure does love a fat suit.

Disappointing.


Twitter avatar for @JuliusIrvingtonhow great is our god dude @JuliusIrvington
wisely avoided mistakes like supporting the Iraq War and disparaging Britney Spears by tactically being in middle school during the early 2000s

February 10th 2021

10,015 Retweets116,626 Likes
Twitter avatar for @albertvancouverAlbert Kim @albertvancouver
In times like this, it's worth thinking about how our city is designed - why can't I freaking sit down anywhere - in the shade - where are the public washrooms - where can I get water if I'm thirsty - without paying - why do I have to breathe car exhaust everywhere

June 26th 2021

19,975 Retweets122,430 Likes
Twitter avatar for @buildsghostJamie Kyle 🏳️‍🌈 @buildsghost
I was not prepared for the ending of this
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July 1st 2021

15,204 Retweets61,091 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thumbeluluLulu Wang @thumbelulu
“When I was starting out, I worked on a major studio production where at least 250k was hidden in the budget to pay off women who might “claim” sexual harassment against the director. I think about this a lot. You should too, whenever they tell u you’re “asking for too much”.

June 26th 2021

3,564 Retweets22,800 Likes
Twitter avatar for @PBS_Impulse9Feta World Peace @PBS_Impulse9
Here you are putting a question mark where God put a period.

masc potatoes @CertifiedFool_

I ordered the 3 tender combo?????? https://t.co/FgAjC8voYG

June 25th 2021

23,602 Retweets198,151 Likes
Twitter avatar for @f8themiss martian @f8the
i hope the babies i was born wit at the hospital doing good

June 26th 2021

176,343 Retweets1,276,619 Likes
Twitter avatar for @LilNasXnope 🏹 @LilNasX
since y’all still doing all this over a kiss imma just fuck the nigga on stage next time

June 29th 2021

38,962 Retweets409,383 Likes
Twitter avatar for @itsdannynearyDanny Neary @itsdannyneary
“Our schools are teaching a radical anti-white agenda!” Our schools:
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June 26th 2021

23,030 Retweets194,180 Likes
Twitter avatar for @FramingBritneyShady Brian @FramingBritney
"I wasn't good, I was great" - Britney Spears
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June 25th 2021

13,655 Retweets68,040 Likes
Twitter avatar for @arioneroyalChocolate Covered PERC @arioneroyal
My young boo texted me “You dtm tmb” Bby auntie dont know what that mean🥴😂😂

June 26th 2021

9,782 Retweets93,934 Likes
Twitter avatar for @itskerriiSha’Carri Richardson @itskerrii
I am human

July 1st 2021

68,015 Retweets489,999 Likes

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Sarah Pomranka
Writes Pom Pom's Mixtape ·Jul 3, 2021

I loved your short story "Graceful Burdens" and think about those women often.

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