Spend an exhilaratg eveng wh Roxane Gay, one of Ameri’s most beloved wrers and cultural crics, for a reflective, no-holds-barred exploratn of femism and social cricism! What's On Edburgh - your gui to events Edburgh!
Contents:
- ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
- ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
- ROXANE GAY: WH ONE ‘N’
‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
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.
ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
”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.
ROXANE GAY: WH ONE ‘N’
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.