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An Evening with Roxane Gay

ΒιΆΉΣ°ΤΊ State’s Anti-Racism and Equity Institute invites members of the university community to attend β€œAn Evening With Roxane Gay,” which will occur at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, in the ΒιΆΉΣ°ΤΊ Student Center Ballroom. This is the first public program offered by the Anti-Racism and Equity Institut

Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is widely revered. Her work has garnered international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. She has written books and novels, a collection of essays and a collection of stories. Her collection of essays, β€œBad Feminist,” is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year, and Salon declared the book β€œtrailblazing.” Her debut novel, β€œAn Untamed State,” was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, which is awarded to the best debut novel of the year by The Center for Fiction. Her bestselling books also include β€œDifficult Women” and β€œHunger: A Memoir of My Body.”.

Gay co-hosts β€œHear to Slay,” a podcast with an intersectional perspective, with Tressie McMillan Cottom. She writes the β€œWork Friend” advice column for The New York Times and recently established a publishing imprint with Grove Atlantic, Roxane Gay Books. She was the first Black woman to write for Marvel, creating a comic series in the Black Panther universe called β€œBlack Panther: World of Wakanda.”