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Contents:

• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
• ROXANE GAY LIVE AT WOW
• ROXANE GAY: WH ONE ‘N’
• ROXANE GAY TICKETS
• ROXANE GAY TICKETS | SCHLE FOR 2023/2024 EVENTS
• ROXANE GAY: ‘PUBLIC DISURSE RARELY ALLOWS FOR NUANCE. AND SEE WHERE THAT’S GOTTEN ’

‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

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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.

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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. ”In Bad Femist, Gay admted listeng to “thuggish rap … even though the lyrics are gradg to women and offend me to my re”.

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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. ” The week after we speak Gay is one of nearly 1, 000 New York Tim ntributors to sign an open letter nmng the newspaper’s verage of trans, non-bary, and genr non-nformg people. ’”Gay is jugglg an overwhelmg number of projects: her podst and publishg imprt, film and TV scriptwrg (she was the first Black woman to wre for Marvel, penng the Black Panther: World of Wakanda ic seri), a book of wrg advice lled How to Be Heard, a llectn of TV cricism, a pilatn of opn piec for the New York Tim and the Guardian US, and “a few novels” – cludg a young adult novel and – y, the mours are te – a romance wh Channg Tatum.

Her mother has stage four ncer and last year Gay’s brother, Joel, died sudnly at the age of 43.

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”Gay and her two younger brothers grew up a lovg, relig, strict hoehold Omaha, Nebraska. ”‘The world feels entled to your trma’ … Hunger, Gay wrote spare and ntatory prose of what she had touched upon Bad Femist.

After, Gay turned to food, and turned her body to a fortrs. By the end of Hunger, which remas the harst thg she’s ever done, Gay had ma a tentative peace wh her body.

”In 2018, Gay unrwent weight loss surgery.

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“That’s one of the key thgs I talk about whenever I talk about wrg trma, ” Gay says. ”Roxane Gay will appear at the Women of the World ftival, Royal Ftival Hall, London, on 12 March and is on tour the UK at the Usher Hall, Edburgh (9 March), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (11 March), the Fom Alumni Audorium at the Universy of Exeter (14 March) and The Fom, Bath (15 March and will be livtreamed on Fane Onle. 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: ‘PUBLIC DISURSE RARELY ALLOWS FOR NUANCE. AND SEE WHERE THAT’S GOTTEN ’

Roxane Gay Live at WOW | Royal Ftival Hall, London, EN | March 12, 2023. 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, a nversatn explorg everythg om polics and patriarchy to Beyoncé and realy ’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 to be event is part of WOW – Women of the World ftival.

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