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Stop reading this blurb. Explore 8 books including Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and more. She is a contributing opinion writer roxane the New York Times. Books The Portable Feminist Reader Do The Work Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business The Sacrifice of Darkness Graceful Burdens The Selected Works of Audre Lorde The Banks The Best American Short Stories Ayiti Not That Bad Hunger Difficult.

Gay gives us permission to take up the sword of feminism while laying down the shield of policed authenticity. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (), the novel An Untamed State (), the short story collection Difficult Women (), and the memoir.

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination, for humanizing the theoretical and intellectualizing the mundane, for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn, in the middle of your life, how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger.

Previous Book Previous book:. A New York Times bestseller, a collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation. Next Book Next book:. With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist—and gets it right, time and time again.

Start reading this book. Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. This is the text for those of us who constructed our feminism from the pages of book chick lit as much as from the musings of post-modern theorists.

Discover Roxane Gay's complete works, biography, writing style, and book recommendations. How can gay help but love this author? She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times. View all books. Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery StoriesBest American Short StoriesBest Sex WritingA Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.

As a result, we complete this book both more powerful and more vulnerable, just like Gay herself. Roxane Gay (born October 15, ) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Skip to content Bad Feminist HarperCollins, A New York Times bestseller, a collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation.