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Meredith Talusan has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, VICE Magazine, and The Nation, and has contributed essays to several books such as Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America and the New York Times' Bestselling Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. Her debut memoir, Fairest, is forthcoming from Viking/Penguin Random House. ...more

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	Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aubrey Hirsch (Goodreads Author), Jill Christman 4.43 avg rating — 22,793 ratings — published 2018 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Editor), Kate Harding (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carina Chocano (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,046 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairest: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 1,971 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator), Airea D. Matthews (Narrator), Meredith Talusan (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,621 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leslie Jamison (Goodreads Author), Monet P. Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb (Goodreads Author), Meredith Talusan (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.29 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Contributor, Editor), Robert Olen Butler (Goodreads Author) 2.87 avg rating — 1,286 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, hindi makakarating sa paroroonan. One who does not look back at their origin will never arrive at their destination.”
― Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir

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“What he invited was empathy, agreement with the injustice of how looks so determined our place in the gay pecking order and how our lack of attractiveness had so much to do with our race and femininity.”
― Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir

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“Kit generously gave my inner self a witness,”
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