Roxane Gay | The Guardian

Contents:

• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY LUMN
• ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’

ROXANE GAY

Roxane Gay: From athlet elevators and Hollywood executiv emails to ‘alleged’ sexual predators and, y, even the fallen young men the streets, the luxury of goln silence is gone. Roxane Gay: Prottg the ath of Michael Brown is not a polil act, no matter what the punds say. Roxane Gay: We shouldn’t need so many women to tell such siar stori.

Roxane Gay: The ‘edian’ uldn’t keep his sire or entlement to himself while ESPN anchor Cari Champn did her job. Roxane Gay: There’s nothg wrong wh famo women (or men) claimg the e. Roxane Gay: There will always be another leak, bee there is always cursy the bodi of nu celebry women.

Roxane Gay: Reeva Steenkamp is ad, a mythil black tr evoked, and the fence is ankly implsible. Roxane Gay: Armed wh meras and no filter, we bear wns to btaly, retweet , and move on.

ROXANE GAY LUMN

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. ”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.

ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’

”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”. 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.