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The Portable Feminist Reader
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From scribe 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 declare 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 Horrible Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unequaled and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on new culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Roxane. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. In , Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which was called “Luminous…intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by the Brand-new York Times. She also released her collection of compact stories, Difficult Women. The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play;
Bio
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories , Best American Compact Stories , Best Sex Writing , A Universal Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Brief Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing belief writer for The Unused York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, The New York Times-bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and The New York Times-bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
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'Bad Feminist' Author Dr. Roxane Gay Joins Occidental College
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One of the country's best-known social justice scholars is now a part of the faculty at Occidental College.
Dr. Roxane Lgbtq+, a contributing opinion penner for the New York Times, previously taught at Yale and Purdue. After being courted by other institutions, Gay decided to make Occidental College her new home.
"It has a liberal arts focus which is right in line with what I do," she said.
Gay joins Occidental's Critical Theory and Social Justice Department. This spring, she will teach a course called "Writing Trauma'" where students will investigate different ways of writing about the issue in fiction and nonfiction.
"I'm also thinking of ways to establish a writing center for marginalized writers, and one that focuses less on mechanics and the ways that traditional writing centers do that occur a