Roxane Gay: genr fascism is on the rise | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN
• ROXANE GAY
• WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO
• ROXANE GAY LISTS 13 RUL FOR FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS
• BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'
• SIMPLE JTICE ROXANE GAY, STILL THE VICTIM
• ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’
• ROXANE GAY’S BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR TAKE ON EFFECTIVE WAYS OF BEG HEARD

‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

Th was Roxane Gay propelled to the lerary stratosphere and – as such fairytal tend to go – sted to be forever after probed about the current state of, ne years on, do the wrer, edor, profsor, podster, cultural cric, and Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi at Rutgers Universy, New Jersey, still nsir herself a bad femist? “I thk I’m a better femist now than I was, ” says Gay when we meet on Zoom.

ROXANE GAY

”It is mid-morng New York and Gay, 48, is drkg a takeaway cup of ffee the eav of the brownstone hoe she shar wh her wife Debbie Millman. “I am a wonrful marriage, ” Gay tells me. ”As an terviewee, Gay keeps her distance.

Such quali are too often terpreted as ldns or ferocy women, but the abidg imprsn Gay giv is of someone who is not gog to promise herself.

”Last year Gay argued that ncel culture “is the bogeyman that people have e up wh to expla away bad behavur” and she prefers to thk terms of nsequence culture. ”In Bad Femist, Gay admted listeng to “thuggish rap … even though the lyrics are gradg to women and offend me to my re”.

WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ ROXANE GAY

More recently she took her podst – The Roxane Gay Agenda, which she talks, mostly to Black women, about issu cludg race, femism, pop culture and polics – off Spotify over s “unfettered accs” to the “misrmatn” spread by Joe isn’t nsirg leavg Twter, notg that sce Elon Mk’s takeover the platform hasn’t “gotten measurably worse for me bee ’s always been terrible. ” The week after we speak Gay is one of nearly 1, 000 New York Tim ntributors to sign an open letter nmng the newspaper’s verage of trans, non-bary, and genr non-nformg people.

’”Gay is jugglg an overwhelmg number of projects: her podst and publishg imprt, film and TV scriptwrg (she was the first Black woman to wre for Marvel, penng the Black Panther: World of Wakanda ic seri), a book of wrg advice lled How to Be Heard, a llectn of TV cricism, a pilatn of opn piec for the New York Tim and the Guardian US, and “a few novels” – cludg a young adult novel and – y, the mours are te – a romance wh Channg Tatum. Her mother has stage four ncer and last year Gay’s brother, Joel, died sudnly at the age of 43.

”Gay and her two younger brothers grew up a lovg, relig, strict hoehold Omaha, Nebraska.

ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO

”‘The world feels entled to your trma’ … Hunger, Gay wrote spare and ntatory prose of what she had touched upon Bad Femist.

After, Gay turned to food, and turned her body to a fortrs.

ROXANE GAY LISTS 13 RUL FOR FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS

By the end of Hunger, which remas the harst thg she’s ever done, Gay had ma a tentative peace wh her body. ”In 2018, Gay unrwent weight loss surgery.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

“That’s one of the key thgs I talk about whenever I talk about wrg trma, ” Gay says.

SIMPLE JTICE ROXANE GAY, STILL THE VICTIM

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ROXANE GAY: ‘GENR FASCISM IS ON THE RISE’

We have not fotten Roxane Gay. This summer has been the summer of Roxane Gay, and the world is the better for . As Gay told The Great Disntent, she started to publish her work "very refully" lerary journals the late '90s.

And if all the chatter mak you want to dive to Gay's work, here are some fantastic says and stori by the wrer you n read now, for ee, to nvce you why you should be a Roxane Gay fangirl, Magaze: "Motherfuckers"A brief and quietly vastatg story about a kid named Gérard who mov to Ameri om Hai. Gay, who has Haian parents and grew up Nebraska “raised as a Haian-Amerin, ” imbu the short scen wh a potent mix of sendhand and firsthand sentence: “'Je te tte, ' he says. ”BuzzFeed: "Not Here to Make Friends"The tle is a monly tmpeted battle cry for female realy petors, whether they’re fightg for a bachelor or a molg ntract, but Gay to ame her wish for more unlikeable female characters lerature.

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

"xoJane: "My Body is Wildly Undiscipled and I Deny Myself Nearly Everythg I Dire"In the aftermath of this year’s Biggt Loser fale, which a nttant lost what many nsired to be an unhealthy amount of weight, Gay nsired her own relatnship to her body.