“Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your sharpest critic. “One of our sharpest new culture critics plants her flag in topics ranging from trigger warnings to Orange is the New Black in this timely collection of essays.” - O, the Oprah Magazine, 10 Titles to Pick Up Now “Feisty, whip-smart essays on gender, sexuality, and race.” - Entertainment Weekly A New York Times best-seller, Bad Feminist establishes Gay as one of our foremost cultural critics and feminist thinkers.” - The Root “There has never been a book quite like Bad Feminist-a sometimes funny, sometimes serious pop-culture-literary-nonfiction-social-commentary hybrid written by a black woman in America. If you’re interested in critical thinking about culture, this book is a must.” - Newsweek An author who filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex.” - Slate Perfectly imperfect, Gay is an unforgettable voice, coming at just the right time.” - NPR, Best Books of 2014 At its best, the book offers Gay’s distinctive voice as both shield and a weapon against social norms just begging for examination. This best-selling collection of essays manages to be both a cultural biography and a deeply personal story of identity.
“It’s no surprise that Roxane Gay-author, essayist and sharp observer of everything in pop culture we’re supposed to be too cool to like-has written such a winning book. “A strikingly fresh cultural critic.” - Ron Charles, Washington Post She is by turns provocative, chilling, hilarious she is also required reading."- People The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.īad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better. In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman ( Sweet Valley High) of color ( The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years ( Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). I once live-tweeted the September issue." I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink-all shades of pink. From Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation-now available in a limited Olive Edition.