The section, Race & Entertainment, has essays on film. One of my favourites was one about three coming out stories. The section titled Gender & Sexuality was probably the core of the book and that is where Gay explores most of the burning topics of contemporary interest. The Scrabble essay was one of my favourite essays in the book. There is a section at the beginning which is autobiographical in which Roxane Gay tells us more about herself and her family, her initial days as a professor, her love for Scrabble. The essays are collected under different sections – Gender & Sexuality, Race & Entertainment, Politics Gender & Race. I thought that the essays were mostly on feminism and gender and though there definitely were many essays on those topics, the range of the essays were wide and they covered race, and other topics of contemporary interest.
Roxane Gay’s book is a collection of essays, many of which she had written for literary magazines and literary websites, and some essays that she wrote for this book. I have wanted to read Roxane Gay’s ‘Bad Feminist’ since the time it came out.
