Contents:
- ROXANE GAY: YOUR JOB ISN’T ALL-IMPORTANT
- ROXANE GAY: ON AMBN AND KEEPG YOUR DAY JOB
- I WANT YOUR JOB: ROXANE GAY, AUTHOR OF 'BAD FEMIST'
ROXANE GAY: YOUR JOB ISN’T ALL-IMPORTANT
”Wre to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer. More about Roxane GayA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn BU, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Y, Your Job Is Important. Dozens of wrers, artists, and Angelenos crowd to The Fom at Otis College of Art and Dign to hear Roxane Gay, celebrated wrer of both fictn and non-fictn, give a lecture that would kick off the Anaphora Wrg Rincy at Otis College.
Roxane Gay’s wrg appears Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, Bt Sex Wrg 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others.
ROXANE GAY: ON AMBN AND KEEPG YOUR DAY JOB
Gay spoke to her own ambn light of the narrative of personal rponsibily: that ambn only grows hungrier and only mands more, rather than ever beg sated. It has had lastg repercsns, Gay argued, entrenchg the ia of personal exceptnalism for people of lor as the route to overg challeng. Speakg of her own experienc as one of a few faculty members of lor her partment—and sometim stutn-wi—Gay said that this is the price of the narrative of exceptnalism: You’ll be the only person of lor, or only one of a few people of lor, your field.
I WANT YOUR JOB: ROXANE GAY, AUTHOR OF 'BAD FEMIST'
” Gay asked.