Thursday, September 5, 2019
UNT Coliseum
The UNT Fine Arts Series presents Roxane Gay - Reading & Book Signing.
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely
revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred
exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she
brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing
Roxane. Her collection of essays, Bad 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 “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State,
was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Roxane co-hosts Hear to
Slay with Tressie McMillan Cottom - a podcast with an intersectional perspective on
celebrity, culture, politics, art, life, love, and more. She is also a contributing
op-ed writer for The New York Times, was the co-editor of PANK, and formerly was the
non-fiction editor at The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Nation
and many other publications. She was the first black woman to ever write for Marvel,
writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda.
Content Warning: The speaker and discussion may make mention of several forms of trauma,
including sexual assault, abuse, and sexual violence.