‘20 New Nonfiction Books That Will Make You Smarter’ ― Flavorwire I just read Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist in one plane ride. ― Library Journal As Bad Feminist proves, Gay is a necessary and brave voice when it comes to figuring out all the crazy mixed messages in our mixed-up world. Lena Dunham Smart readers cannot afford to miss these essays, which range from socially significant art ( Girls, Django in Chains ) and feminist issues (abortion) to politics (Chris Brown) and why Gay likes pink. She's really punk in her approach and her book Bad Feminist has liberated a lot of women by making it clear you can be a conflicted, complicated woman and still identify with feminism. ― Time Magazine Roxane is a powerhouse of a writer. Jessica Valenti ― Guardian Let this be the year of Roxane Gay. Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? Gay is my favorrite current writer. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.

Ron Charles ― Washington Post Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture.