Tonya Harding is America’s Mirror

Gabe Stoutimore
7 min readJan 22, 2018

Between the release of Craig Gillespie’s almost bitterly saccharine biopic “I, Tonya” and a hauntingly-hushed American folk ballad written by the infamously quizzical indie music darling Sufjan Stevens, Tonya Harding has become quite the household name once again.

Conversations about Tonya — now remarried and known as Tonya Price — quite naturally always seem to revolve around one central line of…

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Gabe Stoutimore

Gabe writes about culture, politics, religion, technology, sex, and atheism. He lives in Chicago, IL.