Roxane Gay on Depression and the Trauma We Are All Sharing

In preparing for our interview with Roxane Gay, we noticed that
she had been talking a lot about the shared traumas we have been
experiencing as a society in recent years, both epidemiologically
and politically. She shares some insight on that with us. We also
talk about her own personal trauma, how she manages the
depression that she has carried since, and what she’s learned
about boundaries.


Roxane Gay is a writer, social commentator, editor and university
professor. She’s the author of numerous books, both fiction and
non-fiction, including Bad Feminist and Hunger. Her latest is
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other
People's Business, which collects many opinion pieces she’s
written for the New York Times and other publications.


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