Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist, Master Writer

Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist, Master Writer

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How to Start Your Career When the Old Rules Don’t Apply

Finding your path to a meaningful career has never felt more complicated. The job market is entirely unpredictable, AI is reading your resume, and entire industries seem to be disappearing. It’s a particularly uncertain moment to be entering the workforce for the first time. This ...  Show more

Your Screen Is Changing Your Brain. Take Back Control, with Jonathan Haidt

If you feel like your attention span has shrunk, you’re not imagining it. According to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, our phones and social platforms have fundamentally reshaped childhood, work, and our ability to focus. In his bestselling book The Anxious Generation, Jon ar ...  Show more

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Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir
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Stephen Sackur speaks to American writer, academic and cultural commentator Roxane Gay. Her unflinching, extraordinary memoir Hunger deals with her experience of rape and obesity. How scary is the level of self-exposure in much of her writing?(Photo: Roxane Gay in the Hardtalk st ...  Show more

“I Really Don’t Care A Lot, Do U?” (with Roxane Gay)
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Creating Boundaries in Our Everyday Work (with Roxane Gay)
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When you’re struggling with mental health, the day-to-day routines of a work environment can be a lot – even for a famous author and academic, like Roxane Gay. Gay speaks with host Morra Aarons-Mele about how recognizing and enforcing boundaries helps her navigate work and stress ...  Show more

Danica Roem reclaims her own story in her memoir 'Burn the Page'
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In 2017, Danica Roem became the first openly transgender woman in office when she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. In her new memoir, Burn the Page, she writes about the experiences that got her to that moment, the women who inspired her, and the ways in which she ...  Show more