In "Bad Femist," her 2014 book of says, Roxane Gay laid out a wise, funny and eply empathetic visn of morn femism, acceptance and inty -- flaws and all.
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‘GASLIGHT’ SPARKS BATE AFTER ROXANE GAY SLAMS NILE KIDMAN’S LUCY
” Two of his favore femists were Roxane Gay and Christa Hoff Sommers, and he wonred if might be worthwhile to get the two onstage together Atralia.
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Gay, who has a Ph. Sommers was exced by the ia but didn’t thk Gay would agree; Gay’s management team was receptive but siarly skeptil.
In June of last year, Dh says, he sent Gay an email layg out his visn and cg the famo Buckley-Vidal bate, self the subject of a documentary, as his spiratn.
Eventually, Gay agreed.
ROXANE GAY
This event beme the subject of ntroversy a full six months ahead of s schled dat, when, a September 2018 terview wh the Sydney Morng Herald, Gay lled Sommers a “whe supremacist, ” a claim for which there don’t appear to be any evince (Sommers is Jewish and says she is a registered Democrat, for what ’s worth).
” Gay had been asked about her cisn to share a stage wh a “whe supremacist, ” given that she had pulled a New Yorker article rponse to that magaze havg ved Steve Bannon to a New Yorker Ftival (after the outcry, he was disved) and had also pulled a book she’d been ntracted to wre for Simon & Schter after the publisher ked Milo Yiannopoulos to a (sce nceled) al. In rponse, Gay told the Morng Herald that she’d never heard of Sommers before but that after she’d mentned the mi-tour on Twter, the Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-hate group, sent her rmatn about Sommers that she found “disturbg.