masha gessen
mashagessen
Thread: I wrote this story about the separation of children from parents during the first week of May 2018. It leads with Russia (not such a great move in retrospect)
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Which made me realize: it is possible to believe that you respect an author's work while explicitly disrespecting them - to think that what I write about autocracy is serious
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I avoided the topic of pronouns for a while, but when my new book was coming out, it seemed I had to make a decision about self-presentation. I am trans*,
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