Contents:
- ROXANE GAY LIVE AT WOW
- ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
- ROXANE GAY: ‘NO ONE IS GUARANTEED LOVE OR AFFECTN’
ROXANE GAY LIVE AT WOW
One of the leadg femist voic of our time, Roxane Gay is here for one night only, explorg everythg om polics and patriarchy to Beyoncé and realy televisn nversatn wh wrer and broadster Afua ’s work is ternatnally acclaimed for s honty and ferocy; s reflective, no-holds-barred exploratn of femism and social a ft eye on morn culture, she brilliantly criqu s ebb and flow wh both w and llectn of says, Bad Femist, is nsired the qutsential exploratn of morn other books clu Ayi, An Untamed State, the btsellg Difficult Women and New York Tim btsellg is also the thor of World of Wakanda for Marvel, and has a popular newsletter, The Audacy, as well as an award-wng podst, The Roxane Gay Afua Hirsch is an award-wng wrer, journalist and broadster. The wrer and cultural cric known for brilliant works cludg Bad Femist jos for an unfettable eveng of of the leadg femist voic of our time, Roxane Gay is here for one night only, nversatn wh wrer and broadster Afua Hirsch, explorg everythg om polics and patriarchy to Beyoncé and realy televisn.
ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
She is also the thor of World of Wakanda for Marvel, and has a popular newsletter, The Audacy as well as an award-wng podst, The Roxane Gay Afua Hirsch is an award-wng wrer, journalist and broadster. Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J. Roxane Gay — btsellg thor, cric and femist in — is preparg for her first ever UK tour.
Dpe beg scribed as shy, Gay is warm and humoro. Although the UK tour is extensive — Gay is set to speak London (where she’ll give one of the headlg terviews at the Southbank’s Women of the World ftival), Edburgh, Liverpool, Bath and Exeter — is not pegged to a sgle book release. Much of the dience will likely be part of the ternatnal cult followg that Gay veloped after the release of her but book, Bad Femist, 2014.
In this llectn of says, Gay nsirs the ways she is “failg as a femist” and “a ms of ntradictns”, and adms the ngi between her ials and how she liv. But ’s Gay’s abily to be at once emotnal and rtraed, to cricise but not preach, and to speak wh empathy and re, which really phed her as a femist thker.
ROXANE GAY: ‘NO ONE IS GUARANTEED LOVE OR AFFECTN’
Nearly a later, wh ntradictn wr across the book, do Gay feel any rervatns about still beg her most fg work? It is on the grounds of bodily tonomy which Gay believ femists mt stake their fights for the future: “There are lots of different ways to be a femist but I thk we need to agree on fundamental issu, and reproductive eedom is one of those fundamental issu.
” When a woman says she’s pro-life and a femist I’m like no, you’re pro-lifeGay also unts the eedom and liberatn of trans people as separable om the femist projects of reproductive jtice and bodily tonomy.
As Gay tells me, “trans rights are crisis here the US, jt as they are most parts of the world. ”Gay’s memoir, Hunger, which she wr about her relatnship wh weight, eatg, health and exercise, was published to cril acclaim 2017.