Roxane's writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. Sometimes it's hard to choose feminist principles over things women have been taught to want -like high heels and the wedding industrial complex - but Roxane forgives all and scoffs at the notion of "letting down the sisterhood". A writer, editor, commentator and Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, Roxane is visiting Australia a meeting of the minds with the controversial ‘Factual Feminist’ Christina Hoff Sommers as they navigate the trials and tribulations of 21st century feminism.
Christina Hoff Sommers refers to herself as the ‘Factual Feminist’. in rhetoric, is the superstar author of books like Bad Feminist and Hunger and is an outspoken progressive on issues of gender and race.
I am a mess of contradictions." So writes Roxane Gay in her funny and forthright essay collection Bad Feminist. The pre-debate hype really heated up when on March 19, 2019, ABC Q&A (The Australian Broadcasting Company), with more than 350 thousand followers, shared this tweet: Roxane Gay is touring Australia with a woman she describes as ‘a white supremacist’. Two of his favorite feminists were Roxane Gay and Christina Hoff Sommers, and he wondered if it might be worthwhile to get the two onstage together in Australia. "If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one.