But one can also find great inspiration in Gay herself. One can find great inspiration in Gay’s prose. … Consider me knocked off that pedestal before you ever try to put me up there.” When they disappoint us, we gleefully knock them from the very pedestal we put them on. “We have this tendency to put visible feminists on a pedestal.
As Gay detailed on the TED stage, yes, she is a feminist-but she dubs herself a bad one for things like her love of catchy rap that’s derogatory to females, or her belief that a woman can take a man’s surname if she wants to. Her profound literary side coexists with her love of the Fast and the Furious franchise, and her prose is often composed as episodes of “Law and Order: SVU” play in the background. But Roxane Gay burns bright with brilliant contradictions.
