For Guernica, Roxane Gay interviews Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new essay collection, Thick. The two writers talk taking black women seriously, self-protection, and, as McMillan Cottom puts it, “rais[ing] some really good hell for people who cannot—who are just so beaten down themselves that they can’t raise it for themselves.” Read the rest of the conversation here.
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