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How does feminism grow from here? In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth is joined by writer and cultural critic @roxanegay74 to explore the shifting landscape of feminism. Together, they revisit the ideas at the heart of Bad Feminist, question what’s really in crisis, and trace the possibilities that emerge when we stop ceding ground and begin tending to a broader, more interconnected ecosystem of care. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat
How does feminism grow from here? In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth is joined by writer and cultural critic @roxanegay74 to explore the shifting landscape of feminism. Together, they revisit the ideas at the heart of Bad Feminist, question what’s really in crisis, and trace the possibilities that emerge when we stop ceding ground and begin tending to a broader, more interconnected ecosystem of care. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat
How does feminism grow from here? In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth is joined by writer and cultural critic @roxanegay74 to explore the shifting landscape of feminism. Together, they revisit the ideas at the heart of Bad Feminist, question what’s really in crisis, and trace the possibilities that emerge when we stop ceding ground and begin tending to a broader, more interconnected ecosystem of care. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat
For the past several years, I’ve been working on The Portable Feminist Reader, a collection of feminist scholarship across centuries, and that book is finally out today with @penguinclassics! When my amazing editor Elda Rotor first approached me, I was excited about the project but also overwhelmed by the daunting task. How do you begin to choose a range of texts that articulate interesting ideas about feminism given the bounty from which I had to choose? As I went into the project, I thought a lot about canon and who gets to determine what is or is not canonical. And rather than do a disservice to the scope of global feminism, I focused primarily on American feminists. I also wanted to include pieces that reflect feminist praxis, diverse cultural identities, the importance of intersectionality and even some poetry. I crowdsourced suggestions, drew from my own knowledge, researched and spent about three years reading a lot of feminist writing. Over time, I winnowed down a rich trove of feminist thought into this reader. At the rear, you will find suggestions for further reading, listening, watching, and engaging. I hope you check the Portable Feminist Reader out, and I hope it sparks conversation. In the meantime, I am going on a book tour and I hope you can make it to one of the events! Tonight, I’ll be at @harvardbookstore in Boston. Tomorrow, I’ll be at @wbezchicago in Chicago. And on April 4, I’ll be at @powerhousearena in New York. You can read more about the reader, my process, the tour, and the long list of people who helped make this book possible at The Audacity (link here and in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-out-today-the-portable-feminist. And if you’d like a sneak peek at the book itself, my introduction is up at Lithub today, and you’ll find a link to that piece also at The Audacity.
For the past several years, I’ve been working on The Portable Feminist Reader, a collection of feminist scholarship across centuries, and that book is finally out today with @penguinclassics! When my amazing editor Elda Rotor first approached me, I was excited about the project but also overwhelmed by the daunting task. How do you begin to choose a range of texts that articulate interesting ideas about feminism given the bounty from which I had to choose? As I went into the project, I thought a lot about canon and who gets to determine what is or is not canonical. And rather than do a disservice to the scope of global feminism, I focused primarily on American feminists. I also wanted to include pieces that reflect feminist praxis, diverse cultural identities, the importance of intersectionality and even some poetry. I crowdsourced suggestions, drew from my own knowledge, researched and spent about three years reading a lot of feminist writing. Over time, I winnowed down a rich trove of feminist thought into this reader. At the rear, you will find suggestions for further reading, listening, watching, and engaging. I hope you check the Portable Feminist Reader out, and I hope it sparks conversation. In the meantime, I am going on a book tour and I hope you can make it to one of the events! Tonight, I’ll be at @harvardbookstore in Boston. Tomorrow, I’ll be at @wbezchicago in Chicago. And on April 4, I’ll be at @powerhousearena in New York. You can read more about the reader, my process, the tour, and the long list of people who helped make this book possible at The Audacity (link here and in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-out-today-the-portable-feminist. And if you’d like a sneak peek at the book itself, my introduction is up at Lithub today, and you’ll find a link to that piece also at The Audacity.
Growing a more generous future. In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth sat down with best-selling author of The Bad Feminist @roxanegay74 to revisit the ideas at the heart of her essay collection and trace where the feminist movement goes from here. The conversation invites us to imagine feminism as a living practice—one that grows with us, holds us accountable, and makes room for all of our complexity as we work toward a more generous future. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat Stills by Africa Wildlife Films/Getty Images
Growing a more generous future. In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth sat down with best-selling author of The Bad Feminist @roxanegay74 to revisit the ideas at the heart of her essay collection and trace where the feminist movement goes from here. The conversation invites us to imagine feminism as a living practice—one that grows with us, holds us accountable, and makes room for all of our complexity as we work toward a more generous future. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat Stills by Africa Wildlife Films/Getty Images
Growing a more generous future. In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth sat down with best-selling author of The Bad Feminist @roxanegay74 to revisit the ideas at the heart of her essay collection and trace where the feminist movement goes from here. The conversation invites us to imagine feminism as a living practice—one that grows with us, holds us accountable, and makes room for all of our complexity as we work toward a more generous future. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat Stills by Africa Wildlife Films/Getty Images
Growing a more generous future. In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, @willowonearth sat down with best-selling author of The Bad Feminist @roxanegay74 to revisit the ideas at the heart of her essay collection and trace where the feminist movement goes from here. The conversation invites us to imagine feminism as a living practice—one that grows with us, holds us accountable, and makes room for all of our complexity as we work toward a more generous future. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio. Design by @astat Stills by Africa Wildlife Films/Getty Images
🎉 Congratulations @roxanegay74! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉 With an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
In 2014, I published an essay, “Not Here to Make Friends” where I wrote about the importance and delight of unlikeable female protagonists. Likeability, I said, was a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper way to be, a trap, constraining women to very narrow ideas about how they should be. In fiction, characters who don’t follow this code are labeled as unlikable, as problems, as less worthy of taking up space on the page. I wrote the essay because of my own conflicted experiences with likability but also because I have spent a lot of time over the years thinking about unlikeable characters and how unfairly they are maligned. Because I remain fascinated by unlikable characters, I’m putting together Acquired Tastes, an anthology celebrating unlikeable characters: how we create them, how we understand them, how we love them and how they enrage us, and why they are so necessary to our stories. This call is for young adult writers, whose work I’d like to include in this anthology alongside some more familiar names. All submissions will be due by 11:59 p.m. on February 2, 2026. Read more about the call here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/pC5s50Xx1p3
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite. I hope you’ll join our discussion about this fantastic novel at The Audacity and at our Zoom discussion on December 20 at 1 p.m. EST. Read more and register for our discussion here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/bu8G50XAU64
Next week in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about We Survived The Night by Julian Brave Noisecat. Join us November 25 at 8 p.m. EST. Register at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/ikhy50Xw0XA
This week in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a gorgeous essay by Sammie Seamon about grieving, gathering together, and deeping family knowledge and connections across borders. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/gathered-stones
On Friday in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Back After This by Linda Holmes. Join us March 28 at 8 p.m. ET (please note that this is on a different date than originally scheduled). Register at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/tgU150Vp7CN
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. I hope you’ll join our discussion about this excellent novel at The Audacity and at our Zoom discussion on April 30. Read more and register for our discussion here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/txQv50VueI3
This week in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is an excellent essay by Brenden O’Donnell about discerning what elements of our environment, from the objects to the people, make us ill verses the ones that make us better. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/allergy-april-2
This week in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a gorgeous essay by Dawn McCombs about the long goodbye and what you learn when you sit with a parent who has dementia through their end of life care. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/Fuz650Xyoau
Next month in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite (@oyinbraithwaite). I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this fantastic novel throughout the month of December.
In case you missed it: two gorgeous new books from my imprint, @roxanegaybooks, are out in the world. You can read more about RACEBOOK by @treize64 and RAVISHING by @eshanisurya here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/uB2050XxMBf
One Park. Ten Days. A World of Stories. ILFD is back! 📚✨ Brunch with Daisy Buchanan on books & mental health, enjoy an intimate music session with Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, or hear Roxane Gay & Rebecca Solnit tackle feminism, politics & culture. Plus, join Colin Butfield—Sir David Attenborough’s longtime collaborator—for a vital conversation on saving Earth’s last wilderness. 🌍💡 All this and so much more as Ireland’s biggest literary festival transforms Merrion Square Park this May with inspiring talks, live music, workshops, family events, food stalls and pop-up bookshops! 🎉📖 🎫 Don’t miss out—tickets on sale now at www.ILFDublin.com (link in bio). #ILFDublin #LiteraryFestival #BookLovers #FestivalSeason #DublinEvents #WritersFestival
Minding Other People’s Business with Roxane Gay ️🔥 Join Roxane Gay at ILFD as she discusses her powerful anthology Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business. Covering politics, feminism, civil rights, and more, this collection brings together her sharp takes on contemporary issues. From her groundbreaking works Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane continues to challenge society with radical honesty. Don’t miss her reflections on America’s “age of inelasticity” and the need for compromise in divided times. #ILFD #ILFD25 #ILFD2025 #LiteratureFestival #IrishFestival #DublinFestival #BookFestival #InternationalLiteratureFestivalDublin #RoxaneGay
