Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

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Writer

Roxane Gay is a writer and professor of English at Purdue University whose work focuses on women's rights, race and self-esteem. Her latest book, Haiti, is a collection of stories about the dispersion of the Haitian people. She is a contributing writer to the New York Times, as well as author of the books An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, Hunger, and World of Wakanda for Marvel. She currently works in a number of books, television and film projects.

QUOTES BY Roxane Gay


Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.

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