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    260. Roxane Gay: Should We Quit Social Media?

    260. Roxane Gay: Should We Quit Social Media?

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    260. Roxane Gay: Should We Quit Social Media?

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    Length:
    65 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 21, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Author and cultural observer, Roxane Gay, examines the landscape of the internet and our relationship with it. We discuss the line between constructive criticism and online toxicity; how to decide when to speak up and when to stay quiet; and how to stay human and allow redemption in an online world that demands perfection.

    Plus, a breakdown of our shared unguilty pleasure: Naked Attraction.

    About Roxane: 
    Roxane Gay is the author of several books, including Ayiti, An Untamed State, New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger; and the national bestseller Difficult Women.

    Her writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Short Stories, Best Sex Writing, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. 

    She also has a newsletter, “The Audacity” – and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.

    Her latest book, Opinions, is available now.

    TW: @rgay
    IG: @roxanegay74

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    Released:
    Nov 21, 2023
    Format:
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.