![]() ![]() ![]() Not only women who look like us, but women who embody different identities as well. So yes, we have contradictions, but ultimately we believe in the equality of women. "I think that I'm a human being, and that most bad feminists are just like me - human. "Oh, I'm a terrible feminist," she said, and laughed. When I interviewed Gay earlier this year, I asked her if she really thought she was a "Bad Feminist": Her essays, written for such outlets as Virginia Quarterly Review, Bookslut, Salon and The Rumpus, engage what it means to be a feminist today, but also take up an array of other cultural and pop-cultural topics, including the Sweet Valley High books, "The Hunger Games," the morality of Tyler Perry, "The Help" and "Django Unchained." She visited Boswell earlier this year on tour for her debut novel, "An Untamed State" (Black Cat/Grove Press). But she's one woman that nearly 20,000 people on Twitter are following for her thoughts - and many other readers online and in print are tracking for her fiction and prose. ![]() "I am just one woman trying to make sense of this world we live in," Roxane Gay writes in her introduction to "Bad Feminist: Essays" (Harper Perennial). ![]()
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