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Contents:
- ROXANE GAY
- ROXANE GAY REVEALS 7 CONFSNS OF A BAD FEMIST
- “I AM A BAD FEMIST AND A GOOD WOMAN.” ROXANE GAY LIGHTS UP TEDWOMEN 2015
- ROXANE GAY: WHAT DO IT MEAN TO INTIFY AS A FEMIST?
- ROXANE GAY CAN LOVE SEXIST HIP-HOP & STILL BE A FEMIST
- ROXANE GAY: ‘WE DEMAND PERFECTN OF FEMISTS. WE DO NOT NEED TO DO THAT.'
- “CONFSNS OF A BAD FEMIST” BY ROXANE GAY
ROXANE GAY
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. But she's realized that the joke rang hollow. In a thoughtful and provotive talk, she asks to embrace all flavors of femism -- and make the small choic that, en masse, might lead to actual change. * roxane gay ted talk *
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 REVEALS 7 CONFSNS OF A BAD FEMIST
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"I am failg as a femist, " Roxane Gay adms her 2014 h book Bad Femist. Some femists bristled at Gay's btal honty about her own femist inty as well as the movement at large. But plenty of others regnize that Gay's ndor may be exactly what the movement needs to ntue to a recent TED talk, Gay nfs the tth about beg a femist this day and age — and what the movement mt do to overe s flaws.
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"When I was younger, mostly my teens and 20s, I had strange ias about femists as hairy, angry, man-hatg, sex-hatg women (as if those are bad thgs), " Gay says. But there me a time when Gay realized, spe the stereotyp, that she was, fact, a femist.
“CONFSNS OF A BAD FEMIST” BY ROXANE GAY
Roxane Gay's talk at May's TEDWomen nference helped unrstand why she's sometim a bad femist." emprop="scriptn * roxane gay ted talk *
"I reject the mastream femism that has historilly ignored or flected the needs of women of lor, workg-class women, queer women and transgenr women favor of supportg whe, middle- and upper-class straight women, " Gay says.
"When nsirg the needs of women, Gay not, femists mt nsir all the other inti women hab asi om genr and take to acunt their "different bodi, genr exprsns, fat, sexuali, class backgrounds, abili and so much more. "When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are gradg to women, the lyrics offends me to my re, " Gay says, specifilly cg the "classic" Yg Yang Tws song "Salt Shaker, " which, she not, clus particularly poetic lyrics such as "'Make work wh your wet T-shirt / bch you gotta shake / until your mel starts to hurt.
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"I hold certa tths to be self-evint, " Gay says. "If a woman wants to take her hband's name, that is her choice and is not my place to judge, " Gay says. "The problem is not that she mak herself enomilly vulnerable that choice, " Gay says.
"We have this tenncy to put visible femists on a pestal, " Gay says. "Too many women — particularly groundbreakg women and dtry lears — are aaid to be labeled as femists, " Gay says, "for fear of what that label means, for fear of beg unable to live up to unrealistic expectatns. Ultimately, we need to hold ourselv acuntable, Gay says.
"When I jtify bad choic, I make harr for women to achieve equaly — the equaly that we all serve — and I need to own that, " Gay says.