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The Portable Feminist Reader
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From journalist and cultural critic Roxane Same-sex attracted, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and 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 declare 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.
About Roxane
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Roxane Gay is The New York Times-bestselling author of The Terrible Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a writer, editor, and professor. She is the creator of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women, and Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business. She is also the author of the Eisner Award winning World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Her short stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the editor of an eponymous stamp at Grove Atlantic. In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Identity and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and operational on several books and film and television projects. Her newsletter, The Audacity, is hosted at Substack.
"'Martyr!', Akbar’s debut novel, picks up Akbar’s thread of addiction, distress tolerance, and distorted reality: the novel opens with Cyrus, an Iranian American poet, lying 'on a mattress that smelled like piss and Febreze' and willing God to make the lightbulb in his room flicker, to manifest a signal that he should begin over again...Told from Cyrus’s conflicted, vulnerable, and often irascible perspective and interweaving the stories of the friends, family, artists, and other characters who hold had an impact on Cyrus’s life, Akbar’s debut is an exploration of martyrdom and the reasons we find to remain alive." -RG
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