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INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN

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Roxane Gay is known for her laser-sharp w cultural cricism and nonfictn works, but lser known is her growg practice as an art llector.

While Gay and Millman are unifyg their llectns, their distctive approach to how and what they llect are still visible.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY, WHO LOV ART BUT DISLIK THE ART WORLD, HAS SOME ADVICE FOR GALLERI: ‘STOP BEG TERRIBLE’

In "Bad Femist," her 2014 book of says, Roxane Gay laid out a wise, funny and eply empathetic visn of morn femism, acceptance and inty -- flaws and all. * roxane gay photo *

Millman’s robt engagement wh the art world for nearly 30 years provis a strong foundatn for the llectn she now shar wh Gay. Comg om an amic background, Gay has emerged as a key cril cultural voice to a large public dience over the past .

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Although she grew up wh parents who llect, Gay has only recently directed her attentn towards an art llectn of her own. Gay se her art llectn as a powerful tool that n transform the image of what an art llector looks like to a popular dience. Durg a nversatn this past March, Millman and Gay discsed their llectg origs, the artists they admire, and the roadblocks that n renr art llectg accsible for emergg llectors.

Roxane Gay: My parents llect Haian art, so I knew about art llectg through them. Portra of Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay wh Jean-Michel Basquiat, For Leonardo, 1983.

Author and cultural mentator Roxane Gay and her girliend, wrer and artist Debbie Millman, are engaged. "Gay is the thor of Bad Femist, Hunger, Difficult Women, World of Wakanda, and Not That Bad.

WHY ROXANE GAY TURNED TO OVEREATG AFTER BEG GANG-RAPED AT AGE 12

On Twter, Gay thanked her followers for their support rponse to the news about her engagement.

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Last week, I lled Gay at home to talk about her llectn, which she has begun postg about ocsnally on Twter, where she’s also amassed a cult followg of 830, 000. Below, Gay opens up about toxic gallery culture, the prsur placed on creativ of lor, Seth Rogen’s ceramics, and what visual art do and don’t do for her wrg. A work by Carole Wells Chandler Gay’s home.

'I DIDN’T THK MARRIAGE WAS IN THE CARDS FOR ME': AUTHOR ROXANE GAY CELEBRAT FIRST ANNIVERSARY AFTER ELOPG DURG PANMIC

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It probably didn’t help, too, when she found out you were Roxane Gay. In "Bad Femist, " her 2014 book of says, Roxane Gay laid out a wise, funny and eply empathetic visn of morn femism, acceptance and inty — flaws and all.

Roxane Gay is a novelist and sayist whose onle says you've probably had forward to you by someone you adore.

GLORIA STEEM TO MARRY ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN JEWISH CEREMONY

Kira Cochrane The Guardian puts rrectly: "In prt, on Twter and person, Gay has the voice of the iend you ll first for advice, lm and sane as well as funny, someone who has seen a lot and tak no prisoners.

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Growg up suburban Nebraska, Roxane Gay was a happy, straight-A stunt om a lovg fay. “Everythg I thought I knew was shattered, ” says Gay, 42, of the btal asslt a b the woods 1986. “I didn’t ever want to be over-powered aga, ” explas Gay, who reached 577 lbs.

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Author Roxane Gay, Who Lov Art But Dislik the Art World, Has Some Advice for Galleri: ‘Stop Beg Terrible’ .

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