It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,'… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
