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In her superb collection, Gay’s instinct, acumen and wit coalesce. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism.” “No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. Women from these groups have been shamefully abandoned by Capital F-Feminism, time and again.” Still, Gay refuses to throw the feminist baby out with the bathwater. “Women of color, queer women, and transgender women need to be better included in the feminist project.
The term reflects her staunch feminist beliefs coupled with a few guilty, non-feminist pleasures (reality television), and the acknowledgment that feminism, like all philosophies, has a history of exclusion, too. Bad Feminist abstains from non-evidentiary link-bait rants (a veritable genre of commentary), but it delivers a collage of insightful, irreverent and intelligent arguments with the no-nonsense, unfiltered straight-talk of a favorite aunt who catches you with your hand in the cookie jar before dinner.ĭaughter of Haitian immigrants, Gay hardly embodies a bad feminist. In Bad Feminist, her highly anticipated collection of more than three-dozen essays (some appeared in The Rumpus, Salon and Jezebel, among other publications), Gay casts a critical eye on entertainment and culture, particularly the consumption of television, news, movies, sports, literature and comedy. And on Tumblr, woven within step-by-step instructions for recipes of her favorite dishes, she ruminates on self-worth. She founded and co-edits PANK, a literary journal.
To her 18,000 followers on Twitter, she tweets about episodes of The Barefoot Contessa, poker games with men, or her latest bout with insomnia. Flavorwire recently named Gay one of the Internet’s most influential writers. Roxane Gay’s writings capture the zeitgeist.Īn Untamed State, her chilling debut novel of a woman kidnapped and held 13 days for ransom, garnered praise from coast to coast after its release last May.