Forum / Roxane Gay

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    Charlotte Hamrick
    Jun 17, 01:47am

    I just love her writing so much and this post is a great example of why.

    http://feedly.com/k/1n6ZqZM

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    Carol Reid
    Jun 17, 02:13am

    Roxane Gay is so honest and vulnerable and smart. So full of life. I'm just with her, every word of the way.

    That self-acceptance thing is THE thing. When you get there, everything you need is there waiting for you.

    Thanks, Charlotte, I enjoyed this a lot.

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    Amanda Harris
    Jun 17, 02:45am

    So incredibly real and relatable. Enjoyed this.

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    Sam Rasnake
    Jun 17, 04:58am

    One of the best writers... Here's one of my favorite of her works- "The Weight of Water":

    http://roxanegay.com/the-weight-of-water/

  • Frankie Saxx
    Jun 17, 06:59am

    She's brilliant. Did you catch the YouTube vid with her interview?

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    Sam Rasnake
    Jun 17, 02:07pm

    I did. Great.

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    Charlotte Hamrick
    Jun 17, 02:34pm

    No, I'll go look for it. She was here for Tennessee Williams Fest and I was going to her panel but something happened at the last minute and I couldn't go. Grrrrrr.

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    Joani Reese
    Jun 18, 10:40pm

    After asking Roxane's permission, I teach this essay every semester in my Gender Ideals unit. It is fearless and unsparing and true: http://therumpus.net/2012/04/what-we-hunger-for/

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    Ann Bogle
    Jun 23, 08:33am

    I agree, Carol Reid, "Roxane Gay is so honest and vulnerable and smart. So full of life." Her essay style and approach are like bread that tastes good every time, that is never hard or tiresome (same-old), that is always tasty and thick. I hope she will always give us fiction and I hope it will always be gutsy and calm. I hope she will not go the way I did away from invention, and I hope I will go toward invention again. She is an inspiration because she is rising yet not a commodity. Praise.

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    Charlotte Hamrick
    Jun 23, 04:29pm

    I just love her blog. Her style of integrating cooking with what's on her mind on a given day is so fresh. Also like her essays on a Salon. I actually haven't yet read any of her fiction but I plan to. Suggestions on where to start?

  • Frankie Saxx
    Jun 23, 05:44pm

    Yes, love her blog. The cooking posts are the best. Even though I hate cooking.

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    Henry Standing Bear
    Jun 24, 12:42am

    Roxane is the bomb.com.

    She wrote a letter of support for me to get the teaching job I have now the same week she finished her doctorate. Yep, I asked her to do that. I'm rough sometimes.

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