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Vulnerability & speaking your truth

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Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are “routinely...

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Roxane Gay (editor)
2018
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Roxane Gay—Fitting Into the World in “Hunger” | The Daily Show

Author Roxane Gay opens up about the childhood attack that led to her weight gain, the unwelcome advice she gets daily and writing a different kind of memoir as a fat woman.

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Roxane Gay
2018
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.

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Tarana Burke (editor), Brené Brown (editor)
2021
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FindCenterGive sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

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William Shakespeare
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Mental Health Is Declining and Black Women Are Hit the Hardest | Keita Joy | TEDxBeaconStreet

Did you know that in the United States, over 10.3 million adults have serious thoughts of suicide and/or battle with mental health struggles privately while continuing to produce and perform publicly? Imagine living with a constant, lingering private struggle, while performing in front of the world.

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2020
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Jonathan Van Ness on Living HIV Positive and His Memoir

James asks Jonathan Van Ness about his new memoir, and what the general public should understand about people living HIV positive, and Jonathan discusses the need to shed the stigmas and fear associated with stigmas.

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Jonathan Van Ness
2019
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .

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Roxane Gay
2018
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FindCenterThey do not love that do not show their love.

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William Shakespeare
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Roxane Gay: Meet the Bad Feminist

She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve. America’s brightest new essayist talks about the dark side of her fierce, funny writing.

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Kira Cochrane
2014
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Jonathan Van Ness Gets Vulnerable About the Anxieties of Releasing His Memoir, “Over the Top”

Jonathan Van Ness knew that writing “Over The Top” was his one shot to share his truth. He speaks to the relief of releasing it and how much work is left to be done in breaking down the stigmatization of HIV.

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Jonathan Van Ness
2019
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