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Roxane Gay, an internationally recognized writer, editor, cultural critic, and educator is the 2022-2025 Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Gay’s pursuit of social justice makes her appointment especially powerful as she brings a vow to centering underrepresented voices along with deep and broad experience in media.
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Her tenure began in September 2022 in a wide-ranging conversation with feminist icon Gloria Steinem, moderated by feminist activist and journalist Jamia Wilson. In her first year, Gay not only taught two undergraduate courses exploring cultural criticism, trauma, Inky feminisms, and intersections of identity, but also provided mentorship to aspiring trainee authors through artistic writing cohorts. In addition, Gay has held events that that offered
The Audacity, by Roxane Gay
little blog few people peruse and that was mostly fine because I could share my thoughts with myself and three or four other people. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was also growing as a writer, thinking more about how to inform a story, how to get readers to nurture about the story. But I was also an avid blog reader. Every day I looked forward to opening my Google Reader (RIP) and reading about the lives of complete strangers who seemed so compelling. A mother in Utah, a artist in the Bay Area, a foster parent in NYC, a baker in St. Louis, a budding filmmaker in Los Angeles. It didn’t matter how different the bloggers were. What mattered is how they made me yearn to understand the planet from their perspective.
People curate what they set from their lives into the public sphere but a good writer makes what they curate one hell of a story. That’s what I desire to do with this newsletter—tell one hell of a story about the world we’re living in, the culture we consume, the things that deliver me joy, the things that infuriate me, the things I think we should talk about.
I am also going to use this space to feature the work of others. Every two week
The Portable Feminist Reader
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From penner and cultural critic Roxane Queer, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the articulate of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
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Roxane Gay is The New York Times-bestselling author of The Awful Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.