My favorite color is pink. I used to be cool and claim that black was my favorite color, but now it's pink, all colors of pink. If I own any accessories, they are most likely pink. Though it may appear such, I'm not reading Vogue in a satirical sense. I tweeted the September edition live once.
In addition to taking readers on a tour through recent culture and offering commentary on the condition of feminism today, Roxane Gay documents her progress as a woman of color via these witty and perceptive pieces. What shows up is not only a picture of our culture but also of a very perceptive lady who is always learning more about both herself and our society.
Bad Feminist is a perceptive, humorous, and accurate examination of the ways in which the culture we are exposed to shapes who we are. It also serves as an encouraging reminder of all the things we still need to improve.
Reach out to me, see me, hear me, and feel me.
peculiar advantages -- Normal first-year lecturer -- To clumsily or angrily scrape, claw, or grope
The art of making friends with women -- Girls, girls, girls --
I used to be Miss America -- dazzling, magnificent displays -- I'm not here to make friends.
How each of us loses
Reaching for catharsis: Diana Spechler's Skinny and growing fat right (or wrong) **
The silky idyll surfaces; the thoughtless language of sexual assault; our hunger; the delusion of safety or the delusion of safety;
The display of fractured men **
An account of three debut narratives Above the stature of males **
Jokes vary in their level of humor.
Dear young girls who like Chris Brown: The difficulty with Prince Charming, or He Who Trespassed Against Us; The comfort of cooking fried food and other nostalgic memories from the 1960s; Blurred boundaries, yes Mississippi: reflections on The Help; Surviving Django; Going Beyond the Struggle Narrative; Tyler Perry's Morality; The Final Day of a Young Black Man A story of two profiles; the racism we all bear; tragedy, call, compassion, reaction; the politics of respectability; when Twitter does what journalism cannot; the alienable rights of women; holding out for a hero;
Take one, bad feminist—Take two, bad feminist