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• ROXANE GAY’S BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR TAKE ON EFFECTIVE WAYS OF BEG HEARD
• WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT

ROXANE GAY’S BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR TAKE ON EFFECTIVE WAYS OF BEG HEARD

Roxane Gay, the proment novelist, New York Tim btsellg thor of Hunger and Bad Femist, cultural cric, and lumnist provis practil guidance for everyone who wants to e their voice to wre powerful work to share wh the world.

All wrg advice is terrible, Roxane Gay stat early How to Be Heard. In this valuable gui, Gay provis realistic, ank, and humoro advice for experienced wrers and those who aspire to the wrg life, givg rears the nfince and practil tools they need to fd their voice, e , and be heard. In short chapters, Gay vers topics like “How to wre a short story, ” “How to wre sex, ” “How to revise your wrg, ” “How to handle cricism, ” and “How to wre about the world we live , ” wh irreverence, warmth, and practily.

Roxane Gay has long ed wrg as a means to untangle and munite her own a succsful thor, profsor, and mentor to so many, she advis aspirg wrers on how to harns their voic. Tonight, Gay shar her Brief But Spectacular take on ways of beg heard, as part of our ongog arts and culture seri, Gay, Author and Profsor: A lot of tim, people ask me about voice and how to fd , as if they n go on some sort of search and fd voice wag for them at the end of ., But fact, we tend to already have our voic, and 's really a qutn of learng how to e our voic and knowg that we have every right to do so. And I hope to enurage them to fd ways to e anger for the greater good and to see as an asset, rather than a name is Roxane Gay, and this is my Brief But Spectacular take on ways of beg heard.

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

Illtratn by Alicia Tatone; photographs by Alex Brandon/AP and Bob Korn, via ShutterstockRoxane GayDr.

Gay, a ntributg Opn wrer, is the thor of the memoir “Hunger, ” and the forthg “How to Be Heard. Roxane Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer.

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Gay draws a hard le. Roxane Gay's known for her honty, her willgns to tackle plited subjects; she's wrten extensively about her childhood sexual asslt. I sat down wh Roxane Gay, the btsellg thor of Bad Femist and Hunger, for this week's episo of The Advote's podst, LGBTQ&A, to talk about the other challeng that e wh wrg about love, how she's jt enterg to her sexual prime at 44, and why the stori of trma her rears share keep her up at night.

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Podst: The Roxane Gay Agenda. From beloved and btsellg thor Roxane Gay, "a strikgly h cultural cric" (Washgton Post) an exhilaratg llectn of her says on culture, polics, and everythg between. How to Be Heard SynopsisRoxane Gay, the proment novelist, New York Tim btsellg thor of Hunger and Bad Femist, cultural cric, and lumnist provis practil guidance for everyone who wants to e their voice to wre powerful work to share wh the wrg advice is terrible, Roxane Gay stat early How to Be Heard.

” They are lookg for permissn to e their this valuable gui, Gay provis realistic, ank, and humoro advice for experienced wrers and those who aspire to the wrg life, givg rears the nfince and practil tools they need to fd their voice, e , and be heard. 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. Roxane Gay, the proment novelist, New York Tim btsellg thor of Hunger and Bad Femist, cultural cric, and lumnist provis practil guidance for everyone who wants to e their voice to wre powerful work to share wh the wrg advice is terrible, Roxane Gay stat early How to Be Heard.

" They are lookg for permissn to e their this valuable gui, Gay provis realistic, ank, and humoro advice for experienced wrers and those who aspire to the wrg life, givg rears the nfince and practil tools they need to fd their voice, e , and be heard. In short chapters, Gay vers topics like "How to wre a short story, " "How to wre sex, " "How to revise your wrg, " "How to handle cricism, " and "How to wre about the world we live , " wh irreverence, warmth, and practily.