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Contents:

• ROXANE GAY NAM TYLER PERRY AS ONE OF HER NEM
• THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.
• ROXANE GAY
• 'HOPELSNS IS A LUXURY': WHY ROXANE GAY REF TO GIVE UP ON THE MEDIA
• WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ ROXANE GAY
• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

ROXANE GAY NAM TYLER PERRY AS ONE OF HER NEM

Fans of novelist Roxane Gay’s Twter feed have most likely heard her discs her “nemis, ” ocsnally the plural. On Wednday, Gay named Tyler Perry as one of them.

“One of my nem is a billnaire now, ” Gay, 45, tweeted early Wednday morng.

“A pneer glorifyg the gradatn and monizatn of black women, homophobia, and the lowt mon nomator.

THE AUDACY.SUBSCRIBESIGN HOMETHE AUDAC BOOK CLUBARCHIVELEARBOARDABOUTTHE AUDACY IS A NEWSLETTER OM ROXANE GAY, BUTG ON JANUARY 11, 2021.

The revelatn may be somewhat nfg for Gay’s followers. In June 2019, Gay expound on the ncept a Medium post, wrg on the Greek origs of the word and notg that she had 10 people on her list, namg Rachel Maddow as one and CrossF as another. Gay.

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ROXANE GAY

Gay, a ntributg Opn wrer, is the edor of “The Selected Works of Audre Lor” and the thor of the memoir “Hunger, ” among others. We’re only human, and so, too, are the people who love Gay (@RGay) is a ntributg Opn wrer for The New York Tim. She wr a newsletter, “The Audacy, ” and she hosts the podst “The Roxane Gay Agenda.

” @RGay A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 25 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Defense of Th Sk and Not Takg a Joke. Black media profsnals have been speakg up like never before, tailg numero issu om lack of reprentatn and poor treatment the newsroom, to the emotnal toll of endlsly havg to addrs at the Table tackl systemic racism Season 2In the season fale of Seat at the Table, -hosts Marte St-Victor and Isabelle Racit reflect on beg Black the media wh Roxane Gay, New York Tim opn wrer and thor of the bt-sellg book Bad Femist. As crisis looms overs her untry, Gay joed St-Victor and Racit to talk about the add burn of proof imposed on Black people workg media, why she keeps fightg and what she believ will make a difference.

ROXANE GAY: 2020 has been a year that has been entirely overwhelmg and hontly, I feel really hopels and helpls. Gay explas how she feels hopels every time she opens the news, faced wh "terrible thgs every realm", om the ronavis panmic to natural disasters. GAY: I thk 's been a slow burn, but I do thk thgs have changed.

'HOPELSNS IS A LUXURY': WHY ROXANE GAY REF TO GIVE UP ON THE MEDIA

- Roxane Gay, bt-sellg thor and cultural cricMARTINE ST-VICTOR: How n the media take charge this? GAY: I hontly don't thk 's possible. GAY: Oh, I don't thk 's smetic at all.

GAY: Yeah, is a burn. There's no amount of money that n give you enough energy to talk about racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia and all of the other bigotri whout gettg exhsted. ""If Donald Tmp is re-elected, my wife and I are leavg this untry, " Gay tells Seat at the Table -hosts Marte St-Victor and Isabelle Racit the season fale.

GAY: I hope so, really. 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.

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

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.

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

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. "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.

” She ticks off a list of ways she tri to make her “wildly undiscipled” body more acceptable — by wearg dark cloth, by not eatg junk food public, and by nyg herself over and over problem of body image Ameri is real, and Gay is not aaid to reveal the parts of herself that don’t f to the typil female weight loss narrative of privatn → thns → happs. ”New York Magaze: "The 10 Bt Books About Morn Virgs"Ask a normal person for a list of book remendatns, and you’ll (probably) get one, but ask Gay for a list of book remendatns and she’ll give you a genre-hoppg digt of lerature that registers pretty much across the board on the high-low culture matrix. ” A ton of those piec me out after he scribed g Twter as “like wrg a novel whout the letter P, ” and all of them said he was out of touch, a lame du who jt didn’t get , yadda yadda Here To BuyWhat set Gay’s piece apart was that she criqued Franzen for ignorg somethg important — wrers who aren’t as succsful as Franzen need Twter to promote their books, munite wh their fellow thors, and build a lerary work.