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. 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. 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).
9 QUTNS FOR ROXANE GAY
” 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. There was so much hostily the room, wh the spectators sperate to see Gay outdo Sommers at every turn.
ROXANE GAY
Each of Gay’s pots was followed by loud applse, while Sommers was met wh snickerg and lghter even as she was speakg … I found really difficult to ncentrate on what was beg said at tim bee the crowd was so disptive, and seemed like I was one of few who actually wanted to hear the exchang full.
It’s clear the crowd was solidly pro-Gay and anti-Sommers and fairly rowdy, creasgly so as the event went on. Here and there are moments when Sommers and Gay appear to agree, even if they don’t say so.