Bad Femist by Roxane Gay - Audbook

Contents:

• ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO
• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY EXPLAS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A 'BAD FEMIST'
• “I AM A BAD FEMIST AND A GOOD WOMAN.” ROXANE GAY LIGHTS UP TEDWOMEN 2015
• ROXANE GAY'S BAD FEMIST IS A "MANUAL ON HOW TO BE A HUMAN"

ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO

Gay giv permissn to take up the sword of femism while layg down the shield of policed thenticy. As a rult, we plete this book both more powerful and more vulnerable, jt like Gay herself. Wh prodig bravery and evisceratg humor, Roxane Gay tak on culture and polics Bad Femist—and gets right, time and time aga.

ROXANE GAY

There are wrers who n show you the excellence of their bras and wrers who show you the pths of their souls: I don’t know any wrer who do both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay. Bad Femist shows this extraordary wrer’s range— says about Scrabble, vlence, fairy tal, race, The Hunger Gam, longg, and Sweet Valley Confintial, Gay is alternately hilar, full of righteo anger, nfidg, movg: Bad Femist is like stayg up agreeg and argug wh the smartt person you ever met.

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examg telligence, for her clive and fivg stance, for her urage and termatn, for humanizg the theoretil and tellectualizg the mundane, for sayg out loud the thgs we were thkg, for guidg back to ourselv and returng to what was ours all along. Roxane Gay is so great at weavg the timate and personal wh what is most bewilrg and upsettg at this moment culture.

ROXANE GAY EXPLAS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A 'BAD FEMIST'

In her 2012 article “Bad Femist, ” published by VQR, Roxane Gay suggts that many of the tensns and negative nnotatns that acpany the term femism n be attributed to a damagg, socially-nstcted ncept emed sential femism. Gay, an Amerin sayist and mentator, scrib sential femism as “the notn that there are right and wrong ways to be a femist, ” leavg those who do not live up to societal expectatns feelg unf or aquate to intify themselv as such (pg. In her article, Gay nonts the rctive—not to mentn untertuive—nature of sential femism and the exclive stereotyp produc, while addrsg her own rervatns towards embracg femism self.

One of the reasons Gay giv for ristg the notn of sential femism is s tenncy to overlook issu volvg race.

As a woman of lor, Gay criciz sential femism for not beg more receptive of racial difference (pg.

“I AM A BAD FEMIST AND A GOOD WOMAN.” ROXANE GAY LIGHTS UP TEDWOMEN 2015

Gay repeatedly sists that femism needs to bee more receptive and welg of all typ of women for to flourish and bee as powerful as tend. While she nohels nsirs herself a femist, Roxane Gay nfs to numero actns and beliefs that directly vlate the chaste societal expectatns of femism. Subscriber of Vogue, equent patron of mechanics, lover of drs, babi, and all thgs pk—Roxane Gay addrs her feelg of aquacy and unwillgns to sacrifice unique dividual terts and sense of self by proclaimg herself a “bad femist” (pg.

In this manner, Gay embrac and intifi wh an alternative to sential femism that is clive.

Commted to an tersectnal missn that is both clive and timate, Gay nclus that “bad femism seems like the only way I n embrace myself as a femist and be myself” (pg. Gay, Roxane. OverviewBad Femist is a llectn of says om wrer, scholar, and social cric Roxane Gay.

ROXANE GAY'S BAD FEMIST IS A "MANUAL ON HOW TO BE A HUMAN"

Gay tackl morn patriarchy and racism ways that emphasize the humany of margalized people and how those systems of opprsn ny that humany. By the end of the book, be clear that Gay’s advocy for “bad femism” and her crique of society, culture, and polics is an embrace of the fullns and plexy of human existence and exprsn. In Part 1, “Me, ” Gay offers four says that troduce rears to her inti and terts.

The says ground the rt of the text the particular perspective that Gay brgs to her discsns of entertament, media, and 2, “Genr and Sexualy, ” forms the bulk of the text.

Essays 5 through 15 emphasize the ways that genr opprsn impacts media reprentatn and women’s real-life experienc, while Essays 16 through 22 win the disurse on patriarchy to illtrate s impact on men, which turn has a leter impact on all those fallg outsi of the rigid norms and genred behavral guil that patriarchy Part 3, “Race and Entertament, ” Gay foc on racial opprsn and how shows up media and entertament, emphasizg film work and the traps that filmmakers fall to as a rult of Hollywood’s mand for limed and often stereotyped pictns of Black 4, “Polics, Genr, and Race, ” shifts om pop culture and creative work to emphasize current events that unrsre Gay’s arguments about artistic renrgs of society and culture. The sectn elaborat on why the discsn of seemgly ls ser topics is Part 5, “Back to Me, ” Gay offers her unrstandg of mastream femism and proclaims her embrace of “bad femism. When wrer Roxane Gay dubbed herself a "bad femist, " she was makg a joke, acknowledgg that she uldn't possibly live up to the mands for perfectn of the femist movement.