5/24/2023 0 Comments Roxane gay feminism![]() ![]() I don’t mind still being associated with it because it’s a good book!” she says. ![]() ![]() Nearly a decade later, with contradiction writ across the book, does Gay feel any reservations about it still being her most defining work? “No, not at all. But it’s Gay’s ability to be at once emotional and restrained, to criticise but not preach, and to speak with empathy and care, which really pushed her as a feminist thinker. “When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core,” she writes.īad Feminist became an instant classic of contemporary gender politics for its surgically precise insight, authenticity and sincerity - and for tackling racism, sexual violence and the enablement of abuse in the entertainment industry. In this collection of essays, Gay considers the ways she is “failing as a feminist” and “a mess of contradictions”, and admits the incongruities between her ideals and how she lives. Much of the audience will likely be part of the international cult following that Gay developed after the release of her debut book, Bad Feminist, in 2014. ![]() She is doing the tour simply because “the opportunity came up”.
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