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Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J. Internatnally-acclaimed wrer and cultural mentator Roxane Gay is set to appear at a live -nversatn event at the Universy March as part of her first ever UK tour.

Roxane hosts the Webby Award-wng podst The Roxane Gay Agenda and pens the “work iend” advice lumn for the New York Tim.

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In 2021, she began her own publishg imprt wh Grove Atlantic, “Roxane Gay Books. Anna Cohn Orchard, Executive Director of Exeter Cy of Lerature, said: “I’ve been lucky enough to see Dr Roxane Gay speak at two events the US and each time I have been blown away by the way she weav together cultural and social mentary wh heart, humour, and ep thought.

Profsor Adam Watt, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Humani, Arts and Social Scienc, said: “We are thrilled to wele Roxane Gay. The opportuny to hear Roxane Gay’s parable take on the matters person is a terrific prospect for our whole muny. 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.

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”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.

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”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”.

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.

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

”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.

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