Bad feminist writer5/24/2023 Of her decision, Gay wrote, “I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. Gay recently hit headlines when she pulled her forthcoming book, How to Be Heard, from TED Books (an imprint of US publishing giant Simon & Schuster) after discovering they would publish a book by alt-right provocateur and former Breitbart News editor, Milo Yiannopoulos. Previous works include her 2014 novel, An Untamed State, a 2011 collection of writing called Ayiti, and a comic series entitled World of Wakanda, with which Gay became the first black woman to write for Marvel. Since the release of Gay’s 2014 bestselling collection of essays, Bad Feminist, the writer’s popularity has soared. Tickets to the show sold out in a record-breaking eighty-eight seconds. The duo will chat about feminism and Gay’s latest book of short stories, Difficult Women. New York Times’ bestselling author Roxane Gay will appear in conversation with Good Morning Toronto’s Garvia Bailey at the Toronto Reference Library this Thursday (March 16).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |