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Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”

Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”

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I talk with one of my favorite cultural critics, Roxane Gay, about her long-form essay on Black gun ownership. We discuss how the gun industry frames women as victims in waiting and the importance of dismantling the trope of the “good man with a gun." We also delve into the societal cost of our resisting, rejecting, and resenting nuance and the importance of holding the tension of competing ideas.

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Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”

Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”

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