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

I don't even know what the word is, but it reshapes you and in some instances damages you.

And you can't ever really get away from it because it shapes your interactions with men or with whoever, whatever the gender of your assaulter or your sort of perpetrator was.

And it feels like sometimes you're always going to be chained to this thing.

And again, it comes back to like, would I be able to have a normal relationship with

Would I be able to have normal sexual desires if this thing didn't happen?

Or like, what is normal?

Am I abnormal?

Am I a freak?

Like the fact that I still have sex, like, does that make me like, like I deserved it?

Like there's so many questions that you continue to ask yourself that it just becomes like, you think, oh man, you like, these things are really horrible.

And most of the perpetrators of these kinds of crimes, A, get away with it.

Yeah.

And,

are able to live their lives

Like, yeah, the story might— I mean, hello?

Can you believe?

I mean, every day, I think, is today going to be—I can't believe it hasn't been leaked yet because this White House is leakier than a piece of Swiss cheese.

So, you know there are some really big names in those files.

Correct.

Mm-hmm.

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