Biweekly mentary on the tersectn of inty, culture and the ter om Roxane Gay. Follow her on Twter @rgay
Contents:
- ROXANE GAY LUMN
- ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
- ROXANE GAY
- MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY
- ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’
ROXANE GAY LUMN
Biweekly mentary on the tersectn of inty, culture and the ter om Roxane Gay. Follow her on Twter @rgay. Roxane Gay: Florida is a strange place: hot, betiful, ugly.
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‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
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Roxane Gay: Women have to believe that we n hold different pots of view whout labelg each other bad femists. Th was Roxane Gay propelled to the lerary stratosphere and – as such fairytal tend to go – sted to be forever after probed about the current state of, ne years on, do the wrer, edor, profsor, podster, cultural cric, and Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi at Rutgers Universy, New Jersey, still nsir herself a bad femist? “I thk I’m a better femist now than I was, ” says Gay when we meet on Zoom.
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”It is mid-morng New York and Gay, 48, is drkg a takeaway cup of ffee the eav of the brownstone hoe she shar wh her wife Debbie Millman. “I am a wonrful marriage, ” Gay tells me.
”As an terviewee, Gay keeps her distance. Such quali are too often terpreted as ldns or ferocy women, but the abidg imprsn Gay giv is of someone who is not gog to promise herself.
”Last year Gay argued that ncel culture “is the bogeyman that people have e up wh to expla away bad behavur” and she prefers to thk terms of nsequence culture. ”In Bad Femist, Gay admted listeng to “thuggish rap … even though the lyrics are gradg to women and offend me to my re”.
MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY
More recently she took her podst – The Roxane Gay Agenda, which she talks, mostly to Black women, about issu cludg race, femism, pop culture and polics – off Spotify over s “unfettered accs” to the “misrmatn” spread by Joe isn’t nsirg leavg Twter, notg that sce Elon Mk’s takeover the platform hasn’t “gotten measurably worse for me bee ’s always been terrible. ” The week after we speak Gay is one of nearly 1, 000 New York Tim ntributors to sign an open letter nmng the newspaper’s verage of trans, non-bary, and genr non-nformg people.
’”Gay is jugglg an overwhelmg number of projects: her podst and publishg imprt, film and TV scriptwrg (she was the first Black woman to wre for Marvel, penng the Black Panther: World of Wakanda ic seri), a book of wrg advice lled How to Be Heard, a llectn of TV cricism, a pilatn of opn piec for the New York Tim and the Guardian US, and “a few novels” – cludg a young adult novel and – y, the mours are te – a romance wh Channg Tatum. Her mother has stage four ncer and last year Gay’s brother, Joel, died sudnly at the age of 43. ”Gay and her two younger brothers grew up a lovg, relig, strict hoehold Omaha, Nebraska.
”‘The world feels entled to your trma’ … Hunger, Gay wrote spare and ntatory prose of what she had touched upon Bad Femist.
ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’
After, Gay turned to food, and turned her body to a fortrs. By the end of Hunger, which remas the harst thg she’s ever done, Gay had ma a tentative peace wh her body. ”In 2018, Gay unrwent weight loss surgery.
“That’s one of the key thgs I talk about whenever I talk about wrg trma, ” Gay says. ”Roxane Gay will appear at the Women of the World ftival, Royal Ftival Hall, London, on 12 March and is on tour the UK at the Usher Hall, Edburgh (9 March), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (11 March), the Fom Alumni Audorium at the Universy of Exeter (14 March) and The Fom, Bath (15 March and will be livtreamed on Fane Onle.
Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer. More about Roxane GayA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn BU, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: #MyBossMaMePostThisStupidJobListg. The Sixth Commandment9pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall stars this dark drama by Sarah Phelps based on the horrifyg real-life se of Peter Farquhar, an elrly, eply closeted gay amic who was sced, exploed and eventually murred by too-good-to-be-te stunt Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke).