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Dustin speaks up, commenting that he does not want to come across as being “more oppressed / by like / white supremacy / or something” but adding that he is feeling “traumatized,” wondering if there is any room for him in this conversation (130). He goes on to say that he is glad that the others are finding a sense of “ownership of the racial dynamics” in their sex lives (131) but reiterates that he is still “not white” and that he cannot understand how Gary seems to need him to acknowledge the fact that that is what he seems to be. Gary says that he sometimes needs to be reminded of the ways in which Dustin feels traumatized in ways similar to how Gary was traumatized by growing up without...