In nversatn on stage for the first time the UK, Roxane Gay brgs her ndour and characteristic humour to ntemporary culture, the first UK appearance of the celebrated cultural cric and novelist as she touch on topics om body image to Wakanda, and everythg between. Renowned for her sensivy, humour and honty, Gay is…
Contents:
- ROXANE GAY LIVE AT WOW
- ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
- ROXANE GAY: ‘NO ONE IS GUARANTEED LOVE OR AFFECTN’
- ROXANE GAY 'IN CONVERSATN' AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE
- ROXANE GAY TO APPEAR UK FOR THE FIRST TIME AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE EVENT
- SOUTHBANK CENTRE: ROXANE GAY CONVERSATN
ROXANE GAY LIVE AT WOW
One of the leadg femist voic of our time, Roxane Gay is here for one night only, explorg everythg om polics and patriarchy to Beyoncé and realy televisn nversatn wh wrer and broadster Afua ’s work is ternatnally acclaimed for s honty and ferocy; s reflective, no-holds-barred exploratn of femism and social a ft eye on morn culture, she brilliantly criqu s ebb and flow wh both w and llectn of says, Bad Femist, is nsired the qutsential exploratn of morn other books clu Ayi, An Untamed State, the btsellg Difficult Women and New York Tim btsellg is also the thor of World of Wakanda for Marvel, and has a popular newsletter, The Audacy, as well as an award-wng podst, The Roxane Gay Afua Hirsch is an award-wng wrer, journalist and broadster. The wrer and cultural cric known for brilliant works cludg Bad Femist jos for an unfettable eveng of of the leadg femist voic of our time, Roxane Gay is here for one night only, nversatn wh wrer and broadster Afua Hirsch, explorg everythg om polics and patriarchy to Beyoncé and realy televisn. She is also the thor of World of Wakanda for Marvel, and has a popular newsletter, The Audacy as well as an award-wng podst, The Roxane Gay Afua Hirsch is an award-wng wrer, journalist and broadster.
Roxane Gay — btsellg thor, cric and femist in — is preparg for her first ever UK tour. Dpe beg scribed as shy, Gay is warm and humoro. Although the UK tour is extensive — Gay is set to speak London (where she’ll give one of the headlg terviews at the Southbank’s Women of the World ftival), Edburgh, Liverpool, Bath and Exeter — is not pegged to a sgle book release.
Much of the dience will likely be part of the ternatnal cult followg that Gay veloped after the release of her but book, Bad Femist, 2014. In this llectn of says, Gay nsirs the ways she is “failg as a femist” and “a ms of ntradictns”, and adms the ngi between her ials and how she liv. But ’s Gay’s abily to be at once emotnal and rtraed, to cricise but not preach, and to speak wh empathy and re, which really phed her as a femist thker.
ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
Nearly a later, wh ntradictn wr across the book, do Gay feel any rervatns about still beg her most fg work? It is on the grounds of bodily tonomy which Gay believ femists mt stake their fights for the future: “There are lots of different ways to be a femist but I thk we need to agree on fundamental issu, and reproductive eedom is one of those fundamental issu.
” When a woman says she’s pro-life and a femist I’m like no, you’re pro-lifeGay also unts the eedom and liberatn of trans people as separable om the femist projects of reproductive jtice and bodily tonomy.
As Gay tells me, “trans rights are crisis here the US, jt as they are most parts of the world.
ROXANE GAY: ‘NO ONE IS GUARANTEED LOVE OR AFFECTN’
”Gay’s memoir, Hunger, which she wr about her relatnship wh weight, eatg, health and exercise, was published to cril acclaim 2017. Gay has, of urse, read .
” Roxane GayBut she is not damng of those who have bought to the “Ozempic craze”, feelg that edorial verage of needs to shift and be more cril of the pharmactil dtry: “We’re all jt tryg to do the bt we n a world that mands que a lot and I certaly feel some kd of way about , but who am I to judge?
ROXANE GAY 'IN CONVERSATN' AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE
” Gay challeng perceptns of medil weight-loss terventns as “shortcuts”.
ROXANE GAY TO APPEAR UK FOR THE FIRST TIME AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE EVENT
” And Gay has her own experience wh such terventns, havg had elective weight-loss surgery 2018. ” Still, Gay has no regrets over the surgery, scribg as the “bt cisn I’ve ever ma for myself, I would do aga”, but she is puttg off further sk removal surgery, “bee ’s even worse, sucks!
”Lookg to the future, Gay is velopg a number of other projects which ncern celebry, eher through direct llaboratn or subject.
”Mastream femism leav so many women behd and is so exclnaryWhile the future projects are whout set dat, and Gay nfs that she feels she has taken on too many missns, still fearg that each new project uld possibly be the last, fans n hopefully look forward to a 10th anniversary edn of Bad Femist next year. ”Roxane Gay is speakg at WOW at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 12 March.
SOUTHBANK CENTRE: ROXANE GAY CONVERSATN
Born Omaha, Nebraska, 1974, Roxane Gay is an thor, sayist, New York Tim opn wrer and associate profsor of English at Indiana’s Purdue Universy.