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90-575: Notable contributors include Roxane Gay , Jaquira Díaz , John Sibley Williams , Ismail Kadare , Jennifer Percy , Kathy Fagan , Lynne Sharon Schwartz , Janice N. Harrington , Lisa Russ Spaar and other writers. Work published in Ninth Letter has been selected for many awards anthologies such as Best American Nonrequired Reading , Best American Poetry , The Pushcart Prize , Best American Short Stories , Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best New Fantasy, Best New Poets, Best of

180-692: A Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University in 2010. She was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Circle. Her dissertation is titled Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse About Students as Writers and Engineering Students as Technical Communicators. Ann Brady served as her dissertation advisor. After completing her Ph.D., Gay began her academic teaching career in 2010 at Eastern Illinois University , where she

270-520: A bariatric surgery that removes 75–85% of the stomach. She is 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall. Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA ) is a co-educational college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire . Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school. It educates roughly 1,100 boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, as well as postgraduate students. Exeter

360-498: A $ 5.6 million ($ 72 million in February 2024 dollars) fundraising drive, ending in 1948. Later that year, J. P. Morgan partner Thomas W. Lamont '88 (the former president of the board of trustees) left Exeter another $ 3.5 million in his will. Under Saltonstall, the academy maintained strong ties to elite universities, although like nearly all boarding schools, it lost ground to public schools during this period. Exeter served as one of

450-558: A Haitian-American woman who is kidnapped for ransom. The novel explores the interconnected themes of race, privilege, sexual violence, family, and the immigrant experience. An Untamed State is often referred to as a fairy tale because of its structure and style, especially in reference to the opening sentence, "Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones," and

540-409: A bi-weekly basis. It is also home to The Audacious Book Club, which features one book per month highlighting new works from underrepresented American writers. It started with Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham , followed by Torrey Peters ' debut novel Detransition, Baby in February. Also featured in 2021 are books by Brandon Hobson , Ashley C. Ford , and Anthony Veasna So . Gay

630-722: A book deal from another Simon & Schuster imprint. She also edited the book Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies . In addition to her regular contributions to Salon and the now-defunct HTMLGiant , her writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014 , Best American Short Stories 2012 , Best Sex Writing 2012 , A Public Space , McSweeney's , Tin House , Oxford American , American Short Fiction , West Branch , Virginia Quarterly Review , NOON , Bookforum , Time , The Los Angeles Times , The Nation and The New York Times Book Review . She

720-403: A collection of short stories that highlight women who have lives that differ from society's spectrum of a normal life. Each story follows a different character and her journey through either a traumatic experience or what makes her different from societal norms. The stories explore difficult and complex topics such as the intertwined relationship of sex and violence. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

810-638: A college-preparatory school. Amen cleaned up Exeter's social image, as the student body had acquired a reputation for unruly behavior. He doubled tuition from $ 75 to $ 150 between 1895 and 1899, and claimed in 1903 that he had expelled 400 boys in eight years. He also improved the academy's residential facilities; by 1903 two-thirds of Exeter students were living on campus. Despite the expulsions, Exeter's new-look mission resonated with parents, and enrollment jumped to 390 in 1903 and 572 in 1913. From 1890 to 1894, 67% of Exeter's college-bound students went on to Harvard, Yale or Princeton. 60-odd years later, in 1953,

900-477: A lot and takes no prisoners." A group of feminist scholars and activists analyzed Gay's Bad Feminist for "Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism", an initiative of the feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . In July 2016, Gay and poet Yona Harvey were announced as writers for Marvel Comics ' World of Wakanda , a spin-off from the company's Black Panther title, making them

990-412: A member of their class. Exeter's Principal at the time, Gideon Lane Soule , is said to have told them "You may do as you please — your classmate will stay." After a brief interlude in the 1880s when Exeter's focus partially shifted from college preparation to general education and only 18% of Exeter students went on to college, Charles Everett Fish (p. 1890–95) restored academic standards by adopting

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1080-419: A new way of teaching and learning, for which Harkness would donate funds to foot the bill: What I have in mind is a classroom where students could sit around a table with a teacher who would talk with them and instruct them by a sort of tutorial or conference method, where each student would feel encouraged to speak up. This would be a real revolution in methods. The result was "The Harkness Method," in which

1170-558: A policy of expelling students who could not attain a C average. A student in the Class of 1892 recalled that "[t]here was no real discipline ... the only measure of a boy's quality was his scholarship. If that was satisfactory, little else mattered." The percentages of students going on to college recovered rapidly to 1870s levels, although the student body shrank significantly, dropping from 355 in 1890 to 123 in 1895. Fish's successor Harlan Page Amen (p. 1895–1913) solidified Exeter's mission as

1260-415: A similar assessment, "While online discourse is often characterised by extreme, polarised opinions, her writing is distinct for being subtle and discursive, with an ability to see around corners, to recognise other points of view while carefully advancing her own. In print, on Twitter and in person, Gay has the voice of the friend you call first for advice, calm and sane as well as funny, someone who has seen

1350-401: A teacher and a group of students work together, exchanging ideas and information in a seminar setting. In November 1930, Harkness gave Exeter $ 5.8 million (approximately $ 110 million in February 2024 dollars) to support this initiative. To support the more intensive teaching style, Exeter's faculty grew from 32 teachers in 1914 to 82 in 1946. In addition, through Harkness' largesse, the academy

1440-497: A top-ten spot at the National High School Mock Trial Championship. Close to 80% of students live in the dormitories, with the other 20% commuting from homes within a 30-mile (48 km) radius. Each residence hall has several faculty members and senior student proctors. There are check-in hours of 8:00 pm (for first- and second-year students), 9:00pm (for third years), and 10:00 pm (for seniors) during

1530-627: A total enrollment of 1,078 students. Exeter enrolls a racially and ethnically diverse student body; in the 2023–2024 school year, 56.0% of Exeter students identified as students of color . Of the 314 incoming students for the 2019–2020 school year, 52% previously attended U.S. public schools. In September 2023, the Exeter student body included students from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and 38 countries. 8.0% of students are international students, and another 6.5% are U.S. citizens residing outside

1620-507: A variety of New England private schools such as Belmont Hill School , Berwick Academy , Deerfield Academy , Northfield Mount Hermon , Brewster Academy , Choate Rosemary Hall , Groton School , The Governor's Academy , Loomis Chaffee , Tabor Academy , Milton Academy , Avon Old Farms , Worcester Academy , Cushing Academy , and various other northeastern prep and boarding schools. The academy has over 100 clubs listed. The number of functioning and reputable clubs fluctuates; several of

1710-471: A visiting professor at Yale University . She joined Rutgers in 2022. Gay is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times , founder of Tiny Hardcore Press , essays editor for The Rumpus , and the editor for Gay Mag , which was founded in partnership with Medium . Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska , to Michael and Nicole Gay, both of Haitian descent. Her mother was a homemaker and her father

1800-598: Is a contributor to the 2019 anthology Daughters of Africa , edited by Margaret Busby . Gay was featured in the 2016 book In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs. In July 2019, Gay launched a book club on HBO 's Vice News Tonight . In 2019, Gay partnered with Tressie McMillan Cottom to create a black feminist podcast titled Hear To Slay , which featured influential black women as guests, including Stacey Abrams , Gabrielle Union , and Ava DuVernay . In 2022,

1890-645: Is a heist thriller about the most successful thieves in Chicago: the women of the Banks family. TKO Studios announced in 2020 a partnering with Macro (whose films have garnered nine Oscar nominations and one Oscar win for Viola Davis in Fences ) to produce a film adaptation of the graphic novel. The screenplay is to be written by Gay, who is also serving as executive producer. In January 2021, Gay debuted her newsletter The Audacity , featuring essays by herself and emerging writers on

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1980-494: Is one of the nation's wealthiest boarding schools, with a financial endowment of $ 1.5 billion as of June 2023 and the world's largest high school library . The academy admits students on a need-blind basis and offers free tuition to students with family incomes under $ 125,000. Its list of notable alumni includes U.S. President Franklin Pierce , U.S. Senator Daniel Webster , Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , and three winners of

2070-593: Is owner of GDG Béton et Construction, a Haitian concrete company. Gay is a cousin of Claudine Gay . Gay was raised Catholic and spent her summers visiting family in Haiti. She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire . Gay began writing essays as a teenager, with much of her early work being influenced by her experience with childhood sexual violence. Her parents were relatively wealthy, supporting her through college and paying her rent until she

2160-415: Is ranked as one of the best places that publish fiction and nonfiction. It has also been lauded for its commitment to diversity Roxane Gay Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011),

2250-430: Is worth 11 points and an E is worth 0 points. The academy's student-teacher ratio is 6:1, and 93% of Exeter faculty have postgraduate degrees. Students who attend Exeter for four years are required to take courses in the arts, classical or modern languages, computer science, English, health & human development, history, mathematics, religion, and science. Most students receive an English diploma, but students who take

2340-467: The COVID-19 pandemic's global lockdowns. In October 2019, when asked about Gay Magazine , Gay responded, "I'm doing what I always aim to do as an editor, which is to create a literary space for a range of voices who have something smart and interesting to say — and more importantly, to be able to pay them well. One of the biggest challenges of the digital media landscape is that the money is concentrated at

2430-575: The COVID-19 pandemic . Exeter has admitted students on a need-blind basis since 2021. It previously adopted a need-blind admissions policy from 2006 to 2009, but was forced to abandon the policy due to the 2007–2008 financial crisis . In the 2023–2024 school year, 13% of the students were legacy students . In the 2023–2024 school year, Exeter enrolled 206 freshmen (in academy jargon, "juniors" or "preps"), 264 sophomores ("lower middlers" or "lowers"), 285 juniors ("upper middlers" or "uppers"), and 323 seniors and postgraduates ("seniors" and "PGs"), for

2520-622: The New York Times decrying—despite the worthy tradition of Émile Zola 's J'Accuse...! and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 's " Letter from a Birmingham Jail "—the open letter as a form that "Should End," as it allows writers to "hold fast to [their] deeply held beliefs without having to question them or grapple with doubt" and to "mitigate... helplessness with performance rather than practice." In 2014, Gay published her debut novel, An Untamed State, which centers around Mireille Duval Jameson,

2610-468: The Nobel Prize . Phillips Exeter Academy was established in 1781 by John and Elizabeth Phillips , prominent citizens of Exeter, New Hampshire. It is the nation's sixth-oldest boarding school. John Phillips had earned degrees from Harvard College and came to Exeter as a young man in 1741, initially as a teacher. He made his fortune as a merchant and banker, and gained influence over time as an advisor to

2700-498: The U.S. Constitution , left $ 1,000 to Exeter to teach sacred music . The academy's first schoolhouse, the First Academy Building, was built on a site on Tan Lane in 1783, and today stands not far from its original location. The building was dedicated on February 20, 1783, the same day that the school's first Preceptor, William Woodbridge , was chosen by John Phillips. Exeter's Deed of Gift, written by John Phillips at

2790-452: The "gift that keeps on giving." In a 2014 interview with the magazine, Gay explained her role as a feminist , and how it has influenced her writing: "In each of these essays, I'm very much trying to show how feminism influences my life for better or worse. It just shows what it's like to move through the world as a woman. It's not even about feminism per se, it's about humanity and empathy." In The Guardian , critic Kira Cochrane offered

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2880-716: The 2021-22 school year, Exeter reported total assets of $ 1.91 billion, net assets of $ 1.71 billion, investment holdings of $ 1.22 billion, and cash holdings of $ 242.6 million. Exeter also reported $ 124.0 million in program service expenses and $ 25.3 million in grants (primarily student financial aid ). Exeter offers 65 interscholastic sports teams at the varsity and junior varsity level, 27 intramural sports teams, and various fitness classes. All students are required to participate in athletics. Basketball, water polo, wrestling, swimming, cycling, soccer, squash, cross country, crew , and ice hockey teams have won recent New England championships. Exeter has graduated multiple elite athletes in

2970-520: The 20th century, criteria for U.S. college and university admissions evolved to include more meritocratic considerations and an emphasis on wider demographic factors. Exeter reports that while 10 or more students attended seven of the eight Ivy League colleges (ex. Dartmouth) and MIT between the years 2022-24, 10 or more students also attended Boston College , Bowdoin , GWU , Georgetown , NYU , Northeastern , Tufts , UChicago , USC , and Wesleyan . Exeter uses an 11-point grading system, in which an A

3060-454: The 24 writers, "What does it mean to live in an unruly body?"; her book dealing with such issues, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body , had been published in 2017. In a 2018 interview, Gay said, "I was surprised because I expected that I might get a lot of repetition, of [subject], not of style, but people wrote about all kinds of things. They wrote about gender, size, gun violence, wrestling, sex, ability. The range of issues from that one prompt, with

3150-848: The Chinese government that the students were becoming Americanized. Lewis Perry was appointed principal in 1914 and ran the academy until 1946. Although his early years were marked by grave financial difficulties, including a $ 200,000 bill to rebuild the Academy Building (destroyed by fire five months into Perry's administration) and the disruption of World War I , he had a "talent for getting wealthy men to part with their money." A professional fundraiser, he did not teach classes; instead, he "spen[t] much time away from school spreading Exeter's fame and obtaining endowments." Exeter's endowment increased ninefold during his tenure. In 1936, Exeter boasted an $ 8 million endowment for roughly 700 students, making it

3240-1262: The Foreign Studies Program began. Exeter offers the Washington Intern Program, where students intern in the office of a senator or congressional representative. Exeter also participates in the Milton Academy Mountain School program, which allows students to study in a small rural setting in Vershire, Vermont . The academy currently sponsors trimester-long foreign study programs in Grenoble , Tema , Tokyo , Saint Petersburg , Stratford-upon-Avon , Eleuthera , Taichung , Göttingen , Rome , Cuenca , and Callan ; as well as school-year abroad programs in Beijing, Rennes , Viterbo , and Zaragoza . The academy also offers foreign language summer programs in France, Japan, Spain, and Taiwan. Exeter typically accepts from 14-16% of applicants annually, including 16% in 2023. The admission rate briefly dropped to 10% during

3330-556: The General Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies in 2020. Exeter's main athletic rival is Phillips Academy, Andover. The two schools have been competing against each other in both baseball and football since 1878 (in those first games, Exeter defeated Andover 12–0 in baseball, while Andover won the football game, 22-0). Today, Exeter-Andover weekend is still a large tradition in both schools. Other athletic opponents include

3420-540: The Harkness Method, including the Harkness Table, are now used in many independent schools around the world. The Class of 2023's average combined SAT score was 1434 (713 reading, 721 math). Although Exeter does not offer AP courses, its students may take AP exams if they wish; the Class of 2023's pass rate was 94%. During the tenure of Exeter's tenth principal, Richard W. Day , the Washington Intern Program and

3510-491: The Modern Language Association. In a 2021 spotlight, The Bennington Review described a recent issue of Ninth Letter as an issue marked by "amazing pieces of poetry and prose" and "visually stunning pages of artwork sprinkled throughout." Newpages describes Ninth Letter as "a fun project that ticks all the normal lit journal boxes while providing energy and flash where other journals play it low key." The journal

3600-699: The Net, and New Stories from the Midwest. It has also been honored in Best American Essays . Roxane Gay's “To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," appeared in Bad Feminist after it was published in Ninth Letter . At an editorial meeting, Philip Graham learned that Gay competed in Scrabble tournaments. So, he said, “Hey, let’s contact her and ask if she’d be interested in writing an essay about that for us.”. It

3690-776: The PEAN, which is the academy's yearbook. Exeter also has the oldest surviving secondary school society, the Golden Branch (founded in 1818), a society for public speaking, inspired by PEA's Rhetorical Society of 1807–1820. Now known as the Daniel Webster Debate Society, these groups served as America's first secondary school organization for oratory . The Model UN club has won the "Best Small Delegation" award at HMUN . Exeter's Mock Trial Association, founded by attorney and historian Walter Stahr, has since 2011 claimed seventeen individual titles, five all-around state titles, and

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3780-726: The Q&;A, supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party criticized co-speaker Amanda Nguyen 's work in the U.S. government during the War on Terror ; in response, Gay defended Nguyen on Twitter. Gay was the editor of the anthology titled Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture . The collection, published in 2018 by HarperCollins , features essays from Gay and 29 other authors, including Stacey May Fowles , Lyz Lenz , Samhita Mukhopadhyay , Ally Sheedy , Brandon Taylor , and Gabrielle Union . Medium approached Gay in 2017 about

3870-493: The United States. Most Exeter students (79%) live on campus. The remaining 21% are day students who commute to Exeter from nearby communities. In the 2023–2024 school year, Exeter charged boarding students $ 64,789 and day students $ 50,604, plus other mandatory and optional fees. 44% of Exeter students are on financial aid , which covers, on average, $ 56,251 for boarders and $ 36,353 for day students. Exeter and Andover are

3960-484: The academy's coeducational status, a new gender-inclusive Latin inscription Hic Quaerite Pueri Puellaeque Virtutem et Scientiam ("Here, boys and girls, seek goodness and knowledge") was added over the main entrance to the Academy Building. This new inscription augments the original one— Huc Venite, Pueri, ut Viri Sitis ("Come hither boys so that ye may become men"). In 1999, 55% of incoming Exeter students came from public schools. On January 25, 2019, William K. Rawson

4050-572: The author's exploration of the American dream and courtship of Mireille's parents. The Guardian review by Attica Locke calling it "a breathtaking debut novel," and The Washington Post crediting it as "a smart, searing novel." Gay's collection of essays, Bad Feminist , was released in 2014 to widespread acclaim; it addresses both cultural and political issues, and became a New York Times best-seller. A Time magazine reviewer dubbed Bad Feminist "a manual on how to be human," and called Gay

4140-491: The basement of Phillips Church in late 2015 brought criticism to the Academy. An in-depth investigation uncovered sexual misconduct that had occurred at Exeter since the 1970s and involved at least 11 members of the faculty and staff. The report harshly criticized the school for not supporting victims when they reported incidents and for a pattern of not including these allegations in faculty members' files. In April 2016, Exeter hired

4230-431: The book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat." In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter , Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into

4320-477: The colleges of their choice. From 1953 to 1963, the percentage of Exeter graduates admitted to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton declined by a third, from 67% to 42%. Faced with a decline in applicants, the academy responded by broadening its student body. In 1969, Exeter stopped requiring students to attend a weekly religious service. In 1970, it became coeducational; it later appointed its first female principal ( Kendra Stearns O'Donnell ) in 1987. In 1996, to reflect

4410-791: The colonial governor, circuit court judge, elected representative, and senior militia officer in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. In 1778, he supported his nephew, Samuel Phillips Jr. , financially when the latter founded Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts , about 40 miles distant. As result of this original family relationship, the two schools share a friendly and historic rivalry . John Phillips stipulated in Exeter's founding charter that it would "ever be equally open to youth of requisite qualifications from every quarter." The new academy benefited from donors besides John Phillips. Phillips had previously been married to Sarah Gilman,

4500-489: The corresponding number was 67% for the entire academy. From 1879 to 1881, Exeter (and several other schools) participated in the Chinese Educational Mission , hosting students from Qing China who were sent to the United States to learn about Western technology. However, all students were recalled after just 2 years due to mounting tensions between the United States and China, as well as growing concern within

4590-487: The early 2000s. Most classes at Exeter are taught seminar-style around Harkness Tables with no more than 10-12 students per class period. No classrooms have rows of desks or chairs, and lectures are uncommon. The completion of the Phelps Science Center in 2001 enabled all science classes, which previously had been taught in more conventional classrooms, to be conducted around the same Harkness Tables. Elements of

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4680-399: The essay collection Bad Feminist (2014). A Time review noted: "Gay's writing is simple and direct, but never cold or sterile. She directly confronts complex issues of identity and privilege, but it's always accessible and insightful." In May 2021, Gay announced she was starting a new imprint under Grove Atlantic , called Roxane Gay Books. The first three books to be published under

4770-466: The event as the catalyst for her rapid weight gain and lifelong issues with both her body and sexuality. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies." The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable... ferociously honest," "arresting and candid," and "intimate and vulnerable." Following her national book tour in support of Hunger, Gay said she found press around

4860-518: The fairness of her compensation and noting Purdue had failed to address the issue. For the spring of 2019 Gay was a visiting professor at Yale University. In 2022, she joined Rutgers University , becoming the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies. Gay published a short-story collection, Ayiti (2011), then two books in 2014: the novel An Untamed State and

4950-513: The first black women to be lead writers for Marvel. Six issues of the comic were published. Black Panther: World of Wakanda was hailed for its prominent portrayal of LGBTQ characters. The comic followed the journey of two lovers Aneka and Ayo, who are former members of the Dora Milaje , the Black Panther's female security force. The series follows the pair through multiple events, including

5040-430: The founding of the school, states that Exeter's mission is to instill in its students both goodness and knowledge: "Above all, it is expected that the attention of instructors to the disposition of the minds and morals of the youth under their charge will exceed every other care; well considering that though goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous, and that both united form

5130-523: The full series of Latin and Ancient Greek classes receive a Classical diploma. Although Exeter administrators helped originate the Advanced Placement program, Exeter no longer offers AP courses, asserting that some of its courses "go well beyond the AP curriculum" and often reach "the pace and level of college courses." Exeter was one of the first private schools to begin phasing out AP classes, starting in

5220-551: The guest judge and guest editor of The Masters Review annual fiction anthology in 2017. Gay was featured in a five-minute segment of This American Life on June 17, 2016, talking about her body, and how she is perceived as a fat person. Gay announced in January 2017 that she was pulling her book How to Be Heard , originally set to be published in 2018 by TED Books , an imprint of Simon & Schuster , due to her objections to alt-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos receiving

5310-505: The imprint were announced in 2023. In 2023, Gay was one of more than 370 New York Times contributors to sign an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in the newspaper's reporting on transgender people. The letter characterized the reporting as using "an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language", and raised concerns regarding the newspaper's employment practices regarding trans contributors. The following year, Gay published an essay in

5400-472: The listed clubs on the website do not hold tables on Club Night. The Exonian is the school's weekly newspaper. It is the oldest continuously running preparatory school newspaper in the United States, having begun publishing in 1878. Recently, The Exonian began online publication. The Exonian has been a finalist for a National Pacemaker Award several times, winning in 2007. Other long-established clubs include ESSO, which focuses on social service outreach, and

5490-553: The nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people". She was also included in the 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list. Much of Gay's written work deals with the analysis and deconstruction of feminist and racial issues through the lens of her personal experiences with race, gender identity, and sexuality. Gay is bisexual . In October 2019, she became engaged to artist and writer Debbie Millman . In August 2020, Gay revealed that they had eloped. In January 2018, Gay revealed that she had undergone sleeve gastrectomy ,

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5580-462: The new publication, Gay Magazine . The short-lived journal was also referred to on Medium as GAY The Magazine—The Best Stories About Culture and Gay Mag . The first of the planned quarterly themed editions appeared in June 2019; public submissions were solicited in addition to the commissioned articles. The final issue of Medium's Gay Magazine was themed 'Power' and was posted on April 3, 2020, during

5670-455: The noblest character, and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind." In the early 1800s, a deep religious divide opened up between Unitarian Harvard and Calvinist Yale. As a result, Unitarian-friendly Exeter developed a closer relationship with Harvard and Calvinist-friendly Andover with Yale. Although originally, most Exeter graduates did not go on to further formal education (as with most 18th and 19th Century secondary schools),

5760-445: The novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University . She was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English, where she was tenured. In 2018, she left Purdue to become

5850-416: The office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating". In an interview with The New York Times , Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book." At a February 2019 speaking event at USC , in

5940-470: The ones that did placed at Harvard in substantial numbers. From 1846 to 1870, Exeter supplanted Boston Latin School as Harvard's largest feeder school, supplying 16% of all Harvard students during that period. In the latter half of the 19th century, graduates of Exeter and the now-defunct Adams Academy of Quincy, Massachusetts were "dominant socially" on Harvard Yard. Exeter's first recorded minority student

6030-521: The only two co-educational prep schools in the United States that both admit students on a need-blind basis and offer financial aid that covers 100% of demonstrated financial need for every admitted student. Since 2008, Exeter has also guaranteed free tuition for families with incomes under a certain threshold, initially set at $ 75,000. In 2024, Exeter raised the threshold to $ 125,000. Exeter's financial endowment stands at $ 1.5 billion as of June 30, 2023. In its Internal Revenue Service filings for

6120-739: The past few decades. For example, crew Olympians include Anne Marden '76, Rajanya Shah '92, Sabrina Kolker '98, and Andréanne Morin '02. Georgia Gould is an Olympic medalist in mountain biking, while Joy Fahrenkrog is a member of the United States Archery Team. Duncan Robinson plays for the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association . Tom Cavanagh played in the National Hockey League . Sam Fuld played 8 years of Major League Baseball , and became

6210-401: The podcast was relaunched as The Roxane Gay Agenda . In 2022, Gay partnered with the stationery company Baron Fig on a notebook designed to aid consumers' writing processes. She revealed in 2023 that she has been experiencing writer's block for five years. In 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade , Queerty named Gay among the fifty heroes "leading

6300-478: The possibility of starting a "pop-up" magazine for the online publishing platform. The magazine would specialize in cultural criticism and provide pay for writers including Gay's work in an editorial capacity. The weekly online publication was produced with Medium's Deputy Editor Laura June and Managing Editor Kaitlyn Adams. The first issue, published in late April 2019, featured essays by Athena Dixon and Grace Lavery . In May 2019, Gay and Medium formally launched

6390-477: The religious service of their choice was required of students until 1969, after which religion at Exeter stagnated until it was revived by a new approach "as concerned with the religious dimension of all of our lives as it is with the particular religious needs of any one of us." A renovation of Phillips Church, completed in 2002, provided spaces for worship and meditation for students of diverse religious persuasions. An incident of student misconduct that occurred in

6480-485: The richest boarding school in New England in both absolute and per capita terms. Perry used the money to improve student quality of life, expand access for the underrepresented, and build a more cohesive and higher-achieving student body. Under Perry's leadership, Exeter was able to provide housing for all its students for the first time. Perry also adopted a policy that scholarship students should comprise at least 20% of

6570-446: The same. ) In response to these allegations, Oprah Winfrey dropped My Dark Vanessa from her influential book club. Russell denied the allegations. In April 2018, Gay partnered with the online publishing platform Medium to create a month-long pop-up magazine called Unruly Bodies . The magazine explored the relationship people share with their bodies, through an anthology of essays by 25 writers (including Gay herself). Gay asked

6660-450: The school educated 725 boys. Despite Perry's reforms, Exeter retained a certain informality, which was reflected in the school's "unwritten code that there were no rules at the academy until you broke one." Expelled alumni include the journalist David Lamb and the writer and editor George Plimpton . Perry's largest financial windfall came on April 9, 1930, when philanthropist and oil magnate Edward Harkness wrote to Perry to propose

6750-828: The siege of their city by Thanos and the flooding of Wakanda by Namor. The series' cancellation was confirmed in June 2017 by Gay, just two days after the premiere of the trailer for the Black Panther movie. The last issue released in March 2017. Marvel stated no official reason for the cancellation; however, feminist tech site The Mary Sue pointed to a connection with Marvel's knock against "diversity titles" and Marvel VP David Gabriel's statement that "people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don't know that that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales." In 2017, Gay published Difficult Women ,

6840-411: The student body. He imposed greater restrictions on students' after-class activities, culminating in the abolition of fraternities in 1940. Perhaps counterintuitively, these restrictions limited the number of disciplinary cases and helped students improve their academics. From 1922 to 1931, the number of students expelled or asked to leave for academic reasons declined from 136 to 40. When Perry retired,

6930-425: The testing grounds for the Advanced Placement program, and in 1957, it produced 11 of the 30 incoming Harvard students with enough AP credit to enter as sophomores. In addition, in 1963 Exeter produced 73 National Merit Scholarship finalists, the most in the nation. However, elite universities relentlessly pushed Exeter to tighten academic standards even further, as Harvard's appetite for Exeter graduates meant that

7020-864: The top and it rarely trickles down to the editors and writers, so to be able to have the support of Medium to create a publication — for however long it lasts – where we can pay people equitably and fairly is a really great thing. There is so much good writing going on out there, and I love being able to have a small hand in bringing that into the world." Following Gay and Wendy C. Ortiz 's public accusation of plagiarism against Kate Elizabeth Russell on January 21, 2020, on January 29, Gay Magazine published an essay alleging that Russell's then-forthcoming novel My Dark Vanessa shared "eerie story similarities" to Oritz's memoir Excavation , calling My Dark Vanessa "fictionalized, sensationalized." The Associated Press reported that "[r]eviewers who looked at both books saw no evidence of plagiarism," and New York Magazine found

7110-421: The top cut of Exeter students did not reflect the full breadth of the academy's contingent at Harvard. (In 1955, Harvard admitted 79% of applicants from Exeter and Andover; by contrast, in 1957, 30% of recent Exeter graduates made the dean's list at Harvard, compared to 40% for the entire freshman class. ) Due to a surge of applicants from public schools, Exeter students no longer enjoyed near-automatic admission to

7200-845: The way that writers responded, was wonderful, and affirmed that I made very good choices in the writers that I approached." In April 2018, over a year before the actual launch of the online magazine, "Gay Magazine" posted 25 articles in response to Gay's query under the heading Unruly Bodies ; the writers were: Kaveh Akbar , Gabrielle Bellot, S. Bear Bergman , Keah Brown , Meghan Carpentier , Mike Copperman , Jennine Capó Crucet , Kelly Davio, Mensah Demary, Danielle Evans, Roxane Gay, Casey Hannan, Samantha Irby , Randa Jarrar , Kima Jones , Kiese Laymon , Carmen Maria Machado , Terese Mailhot, Mary Anne Mohanraj , Brian Oliu, Tracy Lynne Oliver , Larissa Pham, Matthew Salesses , Chelsea G. Summers and Your Fat Friend . In December 2019, comic book publisher TKO Studios launched The Banks by Gay. The Banks

7290-487: The wealthy widow of Phillips' cousin, Nathaniel Gilman, whose large fortune, bequeathed to Phillips, enabled him to endow the academy. The Gilman family also donated to the academy much of the land on which it stands, including the initial 1793 grant by New Hampshire Governor John Taylor Gilman of the Yard, the oldest part of campus; the academy's first class in 1783 included seven Gilmans. In 1814, Nicholas Gilman , signer of

7380-557: The weekdays and 11:00 pm on Saturday night. Religious life on campus is supported by the Religious Services Department, which provides a vintage stone chapel and a full-service ministry for the spiritual needs of students. The chapel was originally built in 1895 and has been updated. It accommodates worship for "twelve religious traditions including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Quaker, Buddhist, Catholic among others" as well as Secular Humanism. Weekly attendance at

7470-540: Was 30. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire , Gay began her undergraduate studies at Yale University , but dropped out in her junior year to pursue a relationship in Arizona . She completed her undergraduate degree at Vermont College at Norwich University , and also received a master's degree with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln . Gay received

7560-518: Was Moses Uriah Hall, a young Black man, who entered the Academy in 1858, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and was known for many years as a skilled stonemason and businessman in nearby Epping, New Hampshire . Exeter's official records indicate that six years later, five White students from a border state, Kentucky, threatened to leave the Academy because another young Black man had enrolled as

7650-614: Was able to avoid cutting faculty salaries during the Great Depression , making it a rarity among boarding schools. Since 1930, Exeter's principal mode of instruction has been by discussion, "seminar style," around an oval table known as the Harkness Table . Today, all classes are taught using this method, with no more than 12 students per class. William Saltonstall '24 (p. 1946-63) succeeded Perry and continued Perry's successful fundraising record. He began his tenure by completing

7740-416: Was appointed by the academy's trustees as the 16th Principal Instructor. He is the fourth alumnus of Exeter to serve as Principal, after Gideon Lane Soule (1838–1873), Harlan Amen (1895–1913), and William Saltonstall (1946–1963). In 2021, Rawson announced that Exeter would adopt a need-blind admissions policy, following a $ 90 million fundraising campaign to support financial aid. In the later half of

7830-553: Was assistant professor of English. While at EIU, she was a contributing editor for Bluestem magazine, and she also founded Tiny Hardcore Press. Gay worked at Eastern Illinois University until the end of the 2013–14 academic year. She was an associate professor of creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Purdue University from August 2014 until 2018. Gay announced her departure from Purdue in October 2018, voicing concerns about

7920-533: Was later honored as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2013 edited by Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan . The journal has also received many national and international awards for graphic design, and has been featured in the design awards annuals of both STEP Inside Design and HOW Magazine. In 2005 Ninth Letter was named Best New Literary Journal by the Council of Learned Journals, an affiliate of

8010-468: Was released in June 2017. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. In fact, the book is divided into two sections, "The Before" and "The After" with the day of her rape being the dividing event. At 12 years old, Gay was lured into a cabin by her then-boyfriend and gang raped by him and his friends. She describes

8100-450: Was the editor of The Butter, an online feminist writing site and sister site to The Toast , from November 2014 to August 2015. The Butter featured writing on subjects including disability, literature, family, and music. The Butter ceased publishing in August 2015, with Gay stating she was "simply stretched too thin." Gay was a U.S. Guardian columnist from 2015 to 2018. Gay was

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