Ep. 260 Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay -- The Stacks Book Club (Shanita Hubbard)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Professor and Ride or Die author Shanita Hubbard returns to discuss the 2014 book of essays Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We look back at the collection and ask, how did the book hold up? Its mix of personal memoir, political commentary and pop culture references have us examining our relationship to the text from a new perspective in this spoiler-free episode.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for April 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live in the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks |
| 0:14.8 | live in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | layman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and |
| 0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is the stacks book club day. |
| 0:59.8 | Today we welcome back to Anita Hubbard, professor and author of the book Ride or Die, |
| 1:04.0 | a feminist manifesto for the well-being of black women. She's here to join me in discussing |
| 1:08.4 | Roxanne Gaye's seminal essay collection, Bad Feminist. Bad Feminist was released to much acclaim |
| 1:14.8 | in 2014. Its sharp hilarious commentary and insight has held its place in feminist culture ever since. |
| 1:20.8 | Today, Anita and I discuss how the book has aged and the ways conversations on gender |
| 1:25.4 | race and pop culture have evolved since its publication. We also talk about Roxanne Gaye |
| 1:30.0 | as a writer and a public persona. There are no spoilers in today's episode. Make sure you |
| 1:35.3 | listen through to the end of the episode to find out what our April book club pick will be. |
| 1:40.0 | Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the show can be found in the link |
| 1:44.1 | in the show notes. If you love the stacks and want more of it, like our incredible community on |
| 1:48.9 | Discord, our bonus episodes, our monthly meetups to discuss our book club picks and more, you must |
| 1:54.4 | join the stacks pack on Patreon. It's just $5 a month and you get all of that. Plus, |
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