Roxane Gay

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

And if my parents had even gotten a whiff of the fact that I thought I was dating someone, they would have put the kibosh on it immediately.

So I just – in that context, I was absolutely a victim.

Yeah.

It was terrible, and it was so overwhelming, and it was so compounded by the fact that there were so many of them, and that they went to school and told a very different story about what happened.

And so all of that in sum, I was victimized, and I was a victim, and I was so young.

And

To me, Survivor, I totally understand why other people choose Survivor, and I think it's very apropos.

I think everyone should be allowed to make the decision that works most effectively for them.

But to me, I don't want to diminish how fucking horrible it was and how unjust it was and how young I was.

No, I was a victim, and I don't have any triumphant narrative about it.

And to me, Survivor kind of implies...

like a level of triumph, but I think it's well-earned for a lot of people.

And I recently read Giselle Pellico's memoir, which first of all, I love a French woman.

has a new boyfriend.

I know.

When I got to that part of the book, I was like, girl, what?

Yeah.

But I love that for her.

I love that she was not going to let what happened to her keep her from enjoying love or pleasure.

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