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Roxane Gay on feminism’s fragility and the fight ahead in the Trump era
For more than a decade, Roxane Male lover has been one of the most influential voices in modern feminism. Through works such as Bad Feminist, Hunger and Not That Bad, she has explored the contradictions, complexities and personal stakes of gender, power and identity, bringing both pointed critique and immersive empathy to the conversation.
Her writing challenges traditional feminist narratives, making space for nuance and imperfection in ways that have reshaped contemporary discourse.
With her fresh book, The Portable Feminist Reader, Male lover, who taught at Eastern Illinois University from 2010 to 2014 and whose imprint under Grove Atlantic has published Chicago author Lindsay Hunter, curates a sweeping collection of feminist thought. It comes at a precarious moment, when the Trump administration seeks to erase words like “feminism” and “woman” from federal documents and progress on reproductive rights and Homosexual protections is entity rolled back.
From foundational essays such as Gloria Steinem’s “If Men Could Menstruate” to challenging contemporary reflections like Melissa Gira Grant’s “Happy Hookers,” the publication
Review of Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist has been on my radar for years, but as with many such books, it took someone physically putting it in my hands for me to gain around to it. In this case, my best partner Rebecca (with whom I have started a podcast!) gave this to me as a going-away present when she moved to Montreal (I’m not sure she understands how going-away presents work?). She inscribed it, “To our first book, for our Feminist Book Club.” So I infer I’m in a feminist book club now! It’s engaging, because Rebecca and I both notify ourselves feminists, but we have very different experiences, of course. Her lived experience as a woman is very different from mine as a male. And while we both share a voracious appetite to learn more (about everything, not just feminism), we sometimes have different ways of going about this. So I love discussing our experiences and ideas with each other, and I enjoyed reading Bad Feminist if only to get her obtain on it.
I’ve only actually read one other book by Roxane Gay: Difficult Women, a collection of short stories. I loved it. I’ve also scan a non-fi
Bio
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Widespread Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing view writer for The New York Times. She is the storyteller of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, The New York Times-bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and The New York Times-bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at function on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Same-sex attracted Agenda.
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The Portable Feminist Reader
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From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant stare at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Male lover presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers travel the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in perform, as a complex, opposing, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
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Roxane Gay is The Modern York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.