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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay's writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Oxford American, the Rumpus, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications

Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling (Reuters/Jim Urquhart/AP/Mark J. Terrill/photo collage by Salon)

Donald Sterling was more than just a “painful episode”

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“Game of Thrones” glamorizes rape: That was not consent, and rape is not a narrative device

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(Benjamin Wheelock/AP/Danny Moloshok/Salon)

Woody Allen is just the beginning: Why we can’t hide from the truth anymore

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(REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

Compartmentalizing Woody Allen: What America chooses not to see

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Dick Wolf

“Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf’s philosophy of TV: “Serve dessert first”

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Jezebel’s Lena Dunham mistake: Why offering money for her photo is disingenuous

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Justine Sacco’s aftermath: The cost of Twitter outrage

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Barack Obama shares a moment with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as Michelle Obama looks on during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Dec. 10, 2013. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)

The media’s Michelle Obama problem: What a selfie says about our biases

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(AP/Richard Lewis)

The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond

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Michelle Obama, “feminist nightmare”? How lazy journalism hurts feminism

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Richard Cohen (AP/Frank Franklin II)

Why America needs Internet outrage

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Demonstrators protest the killing of 19-year-old Renisha McBride outside Dearborn Heights Police Station in Dearborn Heights, Michigan November 7, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

How black girls die in America: The outrage of the Renisha McBride shooting

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When no one said anything: How racism goes unquestioned

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The importance of feeling seen: Why interracial families on commercials matter

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The way we talk about sexual assault is broken

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(AP/Dan Steinberg)

Miley Cyrus doesn’t need your open letters

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Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer/Luke Macgregor)

41 books sexist prof David Gilmour should read

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sorry, the patriarchy isn’t dead

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Why we read New York Times wealth porn

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Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook (Reuters/Stephen Lam)

Katie Roiphe’s wrong — counting women matters

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"Orange is the New Black" (Netflix)

The bar for TV diversity is way too low

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Russell Simmons (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Celebrity apologies are meaningless

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Women know more than just love and sex

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Monica Lewinsky, Paula Broadwell (AP)

The women in sex scandals are rarely forgiven

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