An Evening with Roxane Gay
Kent State鈥檚 Anti-Racism and Equity Institute invites members of the university community to attend 鈥淎n Evening With Roxane Gay,鈥� which will occur at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. This is the first public program offered by the Anti-Racism and Equity Institut
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is widely revered. Her work has garnered international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. She has written books and novels, a collection of essays and a collection of stories. Her collection of essays, 鈥淏ad Feminist,鈥� 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 鈥渢railblazing.鈥� Her debut novel, 鈥淎n Untamed State,鈥� was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, which is awarded to the best debut novel of the year by The Center for Fiction. Her bestselling books also include 鈥淒ifficult Women鈥� and 鈥淗unger: A Memoir of My Body.鈥�.
Gay co-hosts 鈥淗ear to Slay,鈥� a podcast with an intersectional perspective, with Tressie McMillan Cottom. She writes the 鈥淲ork Friend鈥� advice column for The New York Times and recently established a publishing imprint with Grove Atlantic, Roxane Gay Books. She was the first Black woman to write for Marvel, creating a comic series in the Black Panther universe called 鈥淏lack Panther: World of Wakanda.鈥�
