Roxane Gay on being a 'Bad Feminist'

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Roxane Gay is the author of the fantastic book of essays 'Bad Feminist' and many of our favorite tweets. We discuss what it takes to keep fighting the good fight on social media when there is so much turmoil 24/7.

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0:13.6	And you were texting at the time, correct?
0:19.0	How dare you, sir?
0:20.4	I was tweeting.
0:21.4	Please read abbity.
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0:28.0	H-tag blessed.
0:29.0	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita and from W.BeeZ in Chicago this is
0:36.1	Nurdette. Coming up the author of Bad Feminist who we think is actually one of the very best feminists.
0:44.4	Roxanne Gay.
0:46.1	We talk about using social media for social justice, for love of Scrabble.
0:49.7	You were ranked at one time, right?
0:51.2	I'm ranked still.
0:53.0	All that plus your nerd confessions, right here on Nurdett.
0:57.0	Roxanne Gay is the author of the book I'm most likely to give as a gift this year.
1:08.4	Bad Feminist is a book of essays.
1:10.4	I've been following her on Twitter and Tumblr for ages and this book is a perfect
1:13.9	distillation of what makes her fantastic brutal honesty and very clever writing.
1:18.9	She's also hilarious I even just in the last couple of days, one of my favorite tweets out there ever, they should make bigger emoji for older eyes.
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