Roxane Gay

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653 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Roxane Gay · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

But it is not the predominant element in my life.

But I think of it in terms of what actually happened at the time.

And at the time, I was 12 years old, and this was 1986-12, not today's 12.

Not that there's any reality in which what happened would be okay.

But I was sheltered.

I was very Catholic.

I...

Didn't know – I did know, like, about the birds and the bees, et cetera.

I was not that sheltered.

But I was sheltered enough that everything that happened – like, I did not know rape was a thing.

I had no idea that was a thing that could happen to a person.

I barely understood what sex was.

And I was –

I'd call it dating is a stretch because I was 12.

Right.

But he, the sort of ringleader guy, used dating as, like, you know, that we were boyfriend-girlfriend, which is the way we sort of refer to it at that age.

Because, like, you're kind of dating by walking back and forth between each other's lockers.

Right, right.

Yes.

It's nothing particularly elaborate, and we never certainly had any sort of date anywhere.

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