Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Engaged

Contents:

• ROXANE GAY DISH ON HER SECRET PROJECT WH CHANNG TATUM
• INSI THE NEAR MELTDOWN OF ROXANE GAY AND CHRISTA HOFF SOMMERS’S ATRALIAN MI-TOUR
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY AND SIGNER DEBBIE MILLMAN ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT
• IS ROXANE GAY MARRIED? B, AGE, WIFE, EDUTN, NET WORTH
• ROXANE GAY’S FAVORE BOOK OF 2019 WAS GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER.
• HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
• WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT
• ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR

ROXANE GAY DISH ON HER SECRET PROJECT WH CHANNG TATUM

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INSI THE NEAR MELTDOWN OF ROXANE GAY AND CHRISTA HOFF SOMMERS’S ATRALIAN MI-TOUR

On Twter, Gay thanked her followers for their support rponse to the news about her engagement. (RELATED: We Sat Down Wh Roxane Gay To Talk About Sex, Love, And Soul Mat).

In 2017, Roxane Gay, the btsellg thor behd Bad Femist and Hunger, revealed that she was workg on a top-secret project wh none other than Channg this week's episo of The Advote's podst, LGBTQ&A, Gay shared new tails about the project, cludg how the two met and what we n expect the future. [Click here to listen to thefull podst terview wh Roxane Gay.

]Gay has a long, documented attractn to Tatum: his neck, his voice, his thighs, his dancg. When Gay ially heard about om her agent, she thought was a joke. "Details about the project are beg kept unr wraps, but Gay says is neher a movie nor a TV show, though, "It might eventually be.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY AND SIGNER DEBBIE MILLMAN ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT

" Through all, Gay's csh on Tatum, as well as Dwayne Johnson ("The Rock") remas strong. '"Click here to listen to the full LGBTQ&A podst terview wh Roxane Gay. ” Two of his favore femists were Roxane Gay and Christa Hoff Sommers, and he wonred if might be worthwhile to get the two onstage together Atralia.

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Sommers was exced by the ia but didn’t thk Gay would agree; Gay’s management team was receptive but siarly skeptil. In June of last year, Dh says, he sent Gay an email layg out his visn and cg the famo Buckley-Vidal bate, self the subject of a documentary, as his spiratn.

IS ROXANE GAY MARRIED? B, AGE, WIFE, EDUTN, NET WORTH

Eventually, Gay agreed. This event beme the subject of ntroversy a full six months ahead of s schled dat, when, a September 2018 terview wh the Sydney Morng Herald, Gay lled Sommers a “whe supremacist, ” a claim for which there don’t appear to be any evince (Sommers is Jewish and says she is a registered Democrat, for what ’s worth).

” Gay had been asked about her cisn to share a stage wh a “whe supremacist, ” given that she had pulled a New Yorker article rponse to that magaze havg ved Steve Bannon to a New Yorker Ftival (after the outcry, he was disved) and had also pulled a book she’d been ntracted to wre for Simon & Schter after the publisher ked Milo Yiannopoulos to a (sce nceled) al. In rponse, Gay told the Morng Herald that she’d never heard of Sommers before but that after she’d mentned the mi-tour on Twter, the Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-hate group, sent her rmatn about Sommers that she found “disturbg.

There was so much hostily the room, wh the spectators sperate to see Gay outdo Sommers at every turn.

ROXANE GAY’S FAVORE BOOK OF 2019 WAS GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER.

Each of Gay’s pots was followed by loud applse, while Sommers was met wh snickerg and lghter even as she was speakg … I found really difficult to ncentrate on what was beg said at tim bee the crowd was so disptive, and seemed like I was one of few who actually wanted to hear the exchang full.

It’s clear the crowd was solidly pro-Gay and anti-Sommers and fairly rowdy, creasgly so as the event went on.

Here and there are moments when Sommers and Gay appear to agree, even if they don’t say so. When Sommers cricized the monly repeated statistic that “one five” women are sexually asslted on llege mp, for example, Gay noted that clud sexual harassment, not jt asslt — meang they agreed that the figure is an overtimate when to asslt. Both also seemed to agree that certa gray-area s of sexual misbehavr, like that of Aziz Ansari, were not a good directn for the #MeToo movement (on Twter, Gay had bemoaned the lumpg of the bad-date story wh more ser cints like those surroundg Matt Ler and Louis C.

HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR

Sommers gave a posive asssment; then Dh approached Gay and asked her the same qutn. ’” Gay prsed the same pot an email to me: “At the first event, he asked, ‘What is femism?

” (The st of the event had been a pot of ntentn between Dh and Gay and her management team. Dh says that pric were higher than ual bee of Gay’s large fee and that AU$247 reprented the hight tier of ticket, which clud the bt seats, food, and drk, pl a meet-and-greet. Dh did ask Gay and Sommers to expla what tersectnaly meant to them a fairly 101-level way, but the sillier-soundg qutn he was acced of askg — What is femism?

WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT

It across, ntext, as an obv means of cug up some of the broar disagreements between Gay and Sommers.

A slight but important misreprentatn of one of Gay’s answers spread on social media as well. In a tweetstorm (archived here), the first tweet of which got 2, 700 retweets, Omayma Mohamed wrote that Gay said “ would be rich for a wterner to assume that they knew what was bt for other cultur & that we didn’t need to tervene their affairs. ” There’s some tth to the ia that Gay downplayed the differenc between the women’s-rights fights the Wt and plac like Indonia (“We are alg wh the very same issu the Wtern world when is not end by Sharia law, ” Gay said).

ROXANE GAY JOS UNIVERSY AS VISG PROFSOR

Here’s an excerpt om Gay’s rponse:. It’s clear Gay’s gripe was not wh the ia of Amerin femists helpg foreign femists w their own fights but rather wh dog so an “terventnist” way (though the term is never fed this part of the nversatn). So this was another area where, if you dug down a b, there wasn’t a great al of nflict between the two — not that stopped Gay’s crics om spreadg exaggerated acunts of her rponse on social media.

Seven of them, to be exact, wh the first layg out the plats of Gay’s team at the Iowa-based Tuday Agency:. The “personal opns about CHS” refers to when Dh asked Gay onstage whether she actually believed Sommers was a whe supremacist. In rponse, Gay hedged a ltle but never fully retracted the accatn, referrg to Sommers as “whe-supremacist adjacent” for havg appeared onstage wh Yiannopoulos, among other appearanc — an apparent reference to a 2015 cint which Sommers accepted an terview on a Swedish podst that turned out to have a history of Holot nialism.

) Dh was beg asked not to prs Gay on the rather damng claim about Sommers that she had ma whout evince, as well as not to brg up the topic of women’s treatment untri wh strict terpretatns of Islamic law, which was salient to the differenc opn between Gay and Sommers (not to mentn a source of schism the femist movement self).