Bad feminist

If you follow Roxane Gay on Twitter, you probably already love her as much as I do. She’s forthright, unabashed, and gives voice to the best and worst of the little voices inside our heads. So, I picked up Bad Feminist – her 2014 essay collection – fully expecting to love it. After all, if she could cram so much into 280 characters, surely this book would be brimming with brilliance...

In her essay “Bad Feminist: Take One” from the collection Bad Feminist , Roxane Gay discusses the pressures facing women to be “good,” saying: Good women are charming, polite, and unobtrusive. … Good women are modest, chaste, pious, submissive.…

August 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the publishing of Bad Feminist, which means that for the last 365 days, readers have been inspired, challenged, motivated, and validated by Roxane Gay's words of wisdom. Her essay collection gets to the…

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"Women Unite" - Women march down Fifth Avenue on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted the women the right to vote, September, 1970. Photo credit: John Olson / Time & Life / Getty — in New York, NY.