Roxane Gay

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Pod Save America · Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility · 5 Oct 2025 podcast

I'm actually very shy and quiet.

So for me, that where I can just sort of blend in and be there is,

um is good but i also am more than happy to write a check i and i'll do whatever is asked of me but what what do i have that i can contribute and what a lot of organizers need is money to do that work um lawyers to get them out of jail um

So I am trying to show up when and where I can, and it seems to be useful.

I was at a protest about four or five weeks ago, and someone said, oh, it's so good to see you here.

And I just thought, oh, really?

I'm just standing here, but okay.

So sometimes those things do matter, and I do try to do work with mutual aid in L.A.

when I can, where I live, have time.

And because that's just the community I'm more connected to and that I know more closely.

And I'm always writing.

It's a small tool, but it is one.

I don't think he needs an excuse, honestly.

Yeah.

I don't think he cares.

But...

Do I think that they are trying to bait people with all of the pomp and circumstance?

Of course they are.

But both that can be true and that we have to show up can also be true.

Because while all of the sort of showmanship is happening, like the thing that they did in Chicago,

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