Rape was and is a cultural and political act: it attempts t… - Roxane Gay

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Rape was and is a cultural and political act: it attempts to remove a person with agency, autonomy, and belonging from their community, to secrete them and separate them, to depoliticize their body by rendering it detachable, violable, nothing.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.

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