John Milas discs how ' 'The Milia Hoe,' a gothic war-time novel praised by Roxane Gay,' is a genre treatment of his own Mare duty Afghanistan.
Contents:
- ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
- HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
- ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.
- ROXANE GAY
- OUR FAVOURE FEMIST ROXANE GAY ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT TO DEBBIE MILLMAN
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
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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. On Twter, Gay thanked her followers for their support rponse to the news about her engagement.
HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
(RELATED: We Sat Down Wh Roxane Gay To Talk About Sex, Love, And Soul Mat). 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. 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.
ROXANE GAY HAS STARTED A $25,000 WRG FELLOWSHIP—FOR SUBSTACKS.
”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.
ROXANE GAY
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. 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.
OUR FAVOURE FEMIST ROXANE GAY ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT TO DEBBIE MILLMAN
“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. 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.
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. Roxane Gay’s TED talk. More news and ias om Roxane Gay.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Mark Ronson mak a meo, Roxane Gay and Adam Grant discs the pros and ns of social media, and much more. In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact.
And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn. “For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote. “What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote.
Few but novelists garner the praise of thor and activist Roxane Gay. But then, John Milas, whose new book, “The Milia Hoe, ” Gay lls “a betiful horror story told masterfully and elegantly, ” had the good fortune to take a semar wh her while pursug his wrg MFA at Purdue fewer novelists go que so big the first time out as Milas has, dreamg up a gothic novel about 21st-century Mar assigned to a forward operatg base Afghanistan. Big news for aspirg bloggers everywhere: yterday, Roxane Gay announced that, partnership wh Substack, she is lnchg a new wrg fellowship for three emergg wrers to velop and publish a Substack newsletter this year.