![]() ![]() She highlights gender inequality in the publishing industry and offers practical solutions. She compares being a first-year professor to being a kid who gets to sit at the adult table on Thanksgiving for the first time. Gay is as comfortable dissecting a Joan Didion novel as the reality TV show "Flavor of Love" with equal fluency and smarts. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about." ![]() The essays range from the humorous - an account of her unwitting entry into the cutthroat world of competitive Scrabble - to the weighty issue of acknowledging privilege: "You don't have to apologize for it. In her new collection of essays, "Bad Feminist," Gay argues that she needn't fit a mythologized image of a feminist in order to fight against institutional sexism, pay inequity, the cult of beauty, attacks on reproductive freedom and so on. ![]() Roxane Gay calls herself a bad feminist - she cops to loving pink and dancing to misogynist music - but she is a badass writer. ![]()
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