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Essays by a clever, funny woman who makes you reconsider some of the things you've probably blindly accepted about the world, media, even Scrabble.
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This book really spoke to me. Roxane Gay discusses issues of gender, sexuality and race and how we look at them in modern America. The part that speaks to me is how she can denounce things as being harmful to women but yet at the same time write about how she enjoys some of those things which is the part that I most relate to and hence why she is a bad feminist. I guess I am too. There are a lot of references to movies, books, articles, and TV of 2013 so I hope that the book continues to remain
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The ending of the book was incredibly strong. Her final essay and the last few paragraphs took my breath away and made me cheer. This line: "The more I write, the more I put myself out into the world as a bad feminist, but I hope, a good woman--I am being open about who I am and who I was and where I have faltered and who I would like to become."
I felt smarter as I read the book and appreciated her insight because she articulated something I sensed and also gave a perspective that I had not con ...more
I felt smarter as I read the book and appreciated her insight because she articulated something I sensed and also gave a perspective that I had not con ...more
I recently attended a conference where Roxane Gay was one of the keynotes, which spurred me to finally read Bad Feminist. (It somehow seems appropriate that I put this off.) While I didn't quite finish before seeing her, I got far enough in that it was fun to hear her read from her own work when she spoke. This is a collection of essays on racism, feminism, pop culture, and more, all intertwined. I very much enjoyed this, so if you're at all curious, pick it up.
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I think some of the essays in here were fantastic, whereas others read like choppy blog posts. A little more pop culture than I was expecting too. Worth a read - but in hindsight j wish I'd skipped over the chapters I didn't enjoy.
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There were moments when it thought things would be too dated but I was wrong every time.
Jul 14, 2016
Kate
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it was amazing
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