Learn how to write about your trauma with DL fave Roxane Gay!

Does that cost include a hook-up to get your writing published (for no pay) in the Voices section of Huffpo?

I'm SHOCKED. Roxane Gay does NOT look exhausted in that photo.

What do you do if you don’t have trauma? Can you make it up? If so, I want to be a lot lizard and a heroin addict, but I think that’s been done.

I wouldn't recommend making up trauma, R3. Listen to the wisdom of Laurie Anderson, from her song Only an Expert:

Now let's say you're invited to be on Oprah

And you don't have a problem

But you want to go on the show, so you need a problem

So you invent a problem

But if you're not an expert in problems

You're probably not going to invent a very plausible problem

And so you're probably going to get nailed

You're going to get exposed

You're going to have to bow down and apologize

And beg for the public's forgiveness

I now have trauma hearing "wisdom" and "Laurie Anderson" in the same sentence.

Are you also triggered, R5? Think carefully about what may have triggered you, who is to blame for that triggering, and how their privilege made them feel it was okay to trigger you, causing your exhaustion. This will be important in your writing. Also be thinking about how you may put this into our preferred headline format. Something like:

Why white men quoting Laurie Anderson is a trigger for me

or

It is not okay for White Gay Men to quote Laurie Anderson at me. Here's Why.

Damn why didn’t I think of this!!??

Can't wait to hear even more about what it's like to be a fat, loud mouthed, obnoxious, yet also exhausted and exhausting Those subjects haven't taken up the vast majority of internet discussion, and a large part of the mainstream media for the past 10+years.

So excited to hear more about TRAUMA.

$180?!!! Jesus! And all that to learn from a woman who writes banal prose like "My body is a cage. My body is a cage of my own making."

I’m wearing shorts right now just to piss her off.

She should do a Master Class on "How to get your money's worth at an all-you-can-eat buffet."

M.F.

[quote] Learn how to write about your trauma with DL fave Roxane Gay!

No thank you.

She's EXHAUSTING.

[quote]It is not okay for White Gay Men to quote Laurie Anderson at me. Here's Why.

Thanks, I just choked on my breakfast laughing at this. I'm not unhappy about it either.

She's an American. She saw an opportunity to make a buck and she grabbed it.

I work out my trauma by posting on Datalounge.

FILL THIS OUT:

FILL THIS OUT:

To give credit where credit is due, I think she’s never looked lovelier.

Do I at least get a complimentary tote for that $180.00?