Roxane Gay Stands Her Ground

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Roxane Gay never envisioned herself as gun owner, until increasing threats forced her to reconsider what it means to be a Black feminist in a country where gun violence is rampant. From the historic role of armed resistance in Black liberation to the modern-day realities of misogynoir and the indifference toward Black women’s safety, Roxane confronts the complexities of gun culture, feminism and who is deemed worthy of self-defense. Her essay "Stand Your Ground" is the final installment of the Roxane Gay & series from Everand Originals. . . . Catch new episodes of Conspiracy, She Wrote every Thursday Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop merch Advertise with Multitude Productions Use code UNLADYLIKE30 for 30% off at nulastin.com/unladylike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lady Life.
0:05.0	A Lady Like. A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:17.0	I've had a love.
0:22.0	This is a lady Like, I'm Kristen.
0:25.0	And today's guest really needs no introduction.
0:30.0	My name is Roxanne Gay. I am a writer, editor, and professor.
0:35.5	And I just love writing, I always have.
0:38.8	And I would do it whether or not people paid me to do it or read my work.
0:45.0	That's right on ladies, I talked to Roxanne Gay, and as you might have gathered from the title of this episode,
0:52.0	we're talking about guns. This is an issue that on Lady Light
0:57.5	covered way back in the early days in 2018, 2019.
1:04.8	And I want to sign post that because A, go back and listen to that episode because it pairs very much with this one and be the gun landscape in the
1:18.0	US since then has changed believe it or not it has changed. Believe it or not, it has changed. Between March 2020 and March
1:28.5	2022, one in 20 American adults bought a gun for the first time.
1:36.8	1 in 20.
1:39.5	What's even more telling about that statistic
1:41.7	and part of the conversation that I have with Roxanne is who those first-time
1:48.8	gun buyers were. It was not your stereotypical gun-loving white dude racing out to the gun store to stock up.
1:58.0	No. The vast majority were people of color and half of them were women and one of the people who became a first-time gun owner during that 2020 to 2022 period was none other than Roxanne Gay.
2:21.6	Now just so that listeners are clear this conversation is based all around your essay
2:29.6	stand your ground. You've written about guns and gun violence before. Why did you want to go deeper in stand your ground?
2:40.0	You know, I think that it's important to think about gun violence in that it's affects,
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