Roxane Gay and Gloria Steem Unpack the Media, Reproductive Jtice and Equal Rights | Rutgers Universy

Contents:

• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI
• BT-SELLG AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO SPEAK AT 2022 DOUGLASS SPRG CONVOTN
• ROXANE GAY, THOR AND CULTURAL CRIC, TO TEACH AT RUTGERS
• ROXANE GAY AND GLORIA STEEM UNPACK THE MEDIA, REPRODUCTIVE JTICE AND EQUAL RIGHTS
• A LIFE-CHANGG EDUTNAL EXPERIENCE—IN CLASS WH DR. ROXANE GAY
• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
• DR ROXANE GAY: CREATIVE WRG COHORT FOR STUNTS

ROXANE GAY

Roxane Gay’s wrg appears “Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, ” “Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, ” “Bt Sex Wrg 2012, ” A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. She also has a newsletter, The Audacy, a podst, “The Roxane Gay Agenda, ” and an imprt, Roxane Gay Books, which publish three tl a year. Roxane Gay, an ternatnally regnized wrer, edor, cultural cric and tor, has been selected as the next Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick.

“I am tly honored to serve as the new Gloria Steem Endowed Chair at Rutgers, " Gay said.

The Rutgers Board of Governors approved Gay’s appotment. Gay’s pursu of social jtice mak her appotment pecially powerful as she brgs a mment to centerg unrreprented voic along wh ep and broad experience media.

ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI

Jonathan Potter, the outgog SC&I an, said Gay "is cisive, analytic, disptive and fortable challengg thori of all kds.

BT-SELLG AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO SPEAK AT 2022 DOUGLASS SPRG CONVOTN

As chair, Gay will lead workshops to explore wrg on cultural cricism, trma, creatg change and wrg across difference. "Beg a classroom wh Roxane Gay is an extraordary opportuny for stunts to grow as wrers and amplify their voic as a force for social transformatn, " said Rebec Mark, IWL director. Gay is the thor of several books, cludg Ayi, An Untamed State, The New York Tim btsellg Bad Femist, the natnally btsellg Difficult Women and The New York Tim btsellg Hunger.

ROXANE GAY, THOR AND CULTURAL CRIC, TO TEACH AT RUTGERS

In 2019, Gay served as a printial fellow the Women and Genr Studi Department at Yale Universy, teachg a urse on wrg trma. Gay also has tght at Occintal College, Michigan Technologil Universy, Florida Atlantic Universy, Eastern Illois Universy and Purdue Universy, where she received tenure.

Dafna Lemish, the g terim an and Distguished Profsor of Journalism and Media Studi at SC&I, chaired the selectn mtee and noted Gay was chosen om an outstandg pool of ndidat. Roxane Gay, a New York Tim btsellg thor and cultural cric, will be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Sprg Convotn at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick’s Douglass Rintial College. Gay’s published works clu Bad Femist, a llectn of says, as well as the novel An Untamed State and Difficult Women, a llectn of short stori.

Gay also is a ntributg opn wrer for The New York Tim and a wrer for “Black Panther: World of Wakanda, ” a Marvel ic-book seri. Gay, the Printial Profsor of Cril Thkg and Social Jtice at Occintal College, publish a newsletter, The Audacy, and is volved televisn and film projects.

ROXANE GAY AND GLORIA STEEM UNPACK THE MEDIA, REPRODUCTIVE JTICE AND EQUAL RIGHTS

Event lnch Gay’s service as Rutgers’ Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi. New York Tim btsellg thor and cultural cric Roxane Gay tackled many prsg issu the news centered around civil rights, reproductive rights and social jtice durg a wi-rangg nversatn wh femist in Gloria Steem her first event as a member of the Rutgers faculty. The discsn between two of the untry’s most proment morn femist figur served as the lnch of Gay’s three-year service as the universy’s Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi.

Gay and Steem spoke of the tersectns and importance of wrg, journalism and media and their impact on mocracy. “We've been talkg about femism and dog the work of femism for s, ” said Gay, a wrer, profsor, edor and New York Tim ntributg opn wrer.

A LIFE-CHANGG EDUTNAL EXPERIENCE—IN CLASS WH DR. ROXANE GAY

“It’s why we are currently havg the nversatns about trans equaly, women's bodi and our right to be unlegislated, ” Gay said. On reproductive rights, Gay said: “There’s not a lot to be optimistic about but I am eply enuraged by the number of people who said overturng Roe v. The endowed posn me at a moment when Gay felt ready to leave amia behd pursu of other opportuni.

Chancellor-Provost France Conway of Rutgers-New Bnswick noted that the Gloria Steem Endowed Chair exists “to immerse our universy muny bate and scholarship” and lled Gay’s apt thkg “what our moment history needs. Rutgers Print Jonathan Holloway add: “Learng om Roxane Gay will be a transformative experience for our stunts.

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

Gay is the thor of several books, cludg Ayi, An Untamed State; The New York Tim btsellg Bad Femist, the natnally btsellg Difficult Women and The New York Tim btsellg Hunger. In 2019, Gay was a printial fellow the Women and Genr Studi Department at Yale Universy, teachg a urse on wrg trma. Roxane Gay’s class as the perfect way to explore the tersectn of my terts media and femism.

Gay is servg as the new Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi here at Rutgers Universy for the next three years.

Gay, “the bt part about teachg at Rutgers, th far, is the stunts who have been uniformly excellent—creative, telligent, and quisive. Gay has been so rewardg.

DR ROXANE GAY: CREATIVE WRG COHORT FOR STUNTS

Gay pulls om her years of experience the field to further spire and stct to be better wrers, most recently reuntg the time she profiled Madonna. Gay. Gay took the whole class to see The Ke Runner on Broadway.