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And I’m going to host a book club, where we read books by underrepresented American writers, talk about those books, and, when we’re lucky, talk to the writers of those books.

The Portable Feminist Reader

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From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive

With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism.

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I was the first black woman to lead a Marvel comic when I wrote World of Wakanda.

I am a writer, editor, cultural critic and I even have a podcast, Hear to Slay, that I co-host with the one and only Tressie McMillan Cottom. What mattered is how they made me want to understand the world from their perspective.

The Audacious Book Club part of The Audacity. Every month we’ll read a book and have online discussions. Everything starts January 11th.

Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. I now write comics for TKO Studios. I am from Omaha, Nebraska and currently split my time between Los Angeles and New York.

All content will be free for the first month and most of the essays I share here will be in front of the paywall for the duration. That’s what I hope to do with this newsletter—tell one hell of a story about the world we’re living in, the culture we consume, the things that bring me joy, the things that infuriate me, the things I think we should talk about.

I am also going to use this space to feature the work of others.

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I am the daughter of Haitian immigrants.

If you need to get in touch with me for a very serious, emergency-level reason, please e-mail me at roxane@roxanegay.com. It didn’t matter how different the bloggers were. But I was also an avid blog reader. Every day I looked forward to opening my Google Reader (RIP) and reading about the lives of complete strangers who seemed so compelling.

I'm a fan of baby elephants, but really, who isn't?

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Roxane Gay

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I am very attached to things that fade into obsolescence.

January: Black Futures, edited by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew (Week of 1/25)
February: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Week of 2/22)
March: The Removed by Brandon Hobson (Week of 3/22)
April: Milk, Blood, Heatby Dantiel W.

Moniz (Week of 4/26)
May: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenridge (Week of 5/24)
June: Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (Week of 6/21)
July: The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (Week of 7/26)
August: Somebody’s Daughterby Ashley C.

Ford (Week of 8/23)
September: The Renunciations by Donika Kelly (Week of 9/20)
October: The Heart Principleby Helen Hoang (Week of 10/25)
November: Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins (Week of 11/22)
December: Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Week of 12/13)

The Audacity’s logo was designed by the one and only Chip Kidd.

My co-director for the book club is Kaitlyn Adams, an avid reader and all around wonderful person.

This newsletter’s editor is TBD very soon as I am still reading through applications.

For years, I wrote an obscure little blog few people read and that was mostly fine because I could share my thoughts with myself and three or four other people. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was also growing as a writer, thinking more about how to tell a story, how to get readers to care about the story. First, The Banks, and up next, The Ends.