There are white moments including laughing about not registering racial slurs when they don't apply to you. There's also a chapter dedicated to the spirit of non-apologies aka sorry you were offended or lamenting the intention of language not overriding impact. The playfulness is not immoderately spoiled and some of the ideas that she explores in nonfiction unexpectedly work well as overt lessons in absurdist short fiction form, like in the chapter about ethical sluts vs confused sluts.