There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent.

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An excerpt from Hunger in which Gay describes herself after being gang-raped during her teenage years as quoted in “Roxane Gay: ‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us’” in The Guardian (2018 Dec 27)

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