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Ben Appel, Lauren Hall, Lura Forcum

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    My memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic’ is now available. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, Quillette, The Free Press, Queer Majority, UnHerd, and many other publications.

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    Author, Substacker, podcaster, academic leader, radical moderate, mother, and indifferent gardener. Helping people break out of false binaries and black and white thinking to see our social and political worlds in 4D.

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    Out here trying to humanize politics and three children, with mixed results. Social / consumer psychologist and former professor. Heavy on humility and cake. Lightly chaotic.

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