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Roxane Gay

A three-fold collage of an Ivy Park box from Beyonce, then two photos of Roxane Gay wearing the all black line.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Beyoncé Sent Roxane Gay an Ivy Park Box, Black Bisexual Nerds the Time Has Arrived!

How Much Bisexual Energy Do You Radiate? It’s time to find out! Also: searching for the “Ethereal Bisexual” woman in Barack Obama’s memoir, Cara Delevingne is now co-owner of a sex technology brand, and Stacey Abrams on finishing the job in Georgia.

By Carmen Phillips| November 19, 2020 | 9 Comments
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman standing against a grey wall.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Your Hot Queer Aunts Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Spinning Stevie Nicks Too

Angelica Ross being interviewed by Crissle in a flurry of Black queer and trans brilliance, how to make serious sense of yesterday’s SCOTUS push to re-evaluate gay marriage, could the parents of LGBTQ+ kids decide the election? And more!

By Carmen Phillips| October 6, 2020 | 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: I Can’t Believe Roxane Gay Invented Leather Jackets for This Rihanna Interview

Katie Sowers is the first lesbian to coach in a Super Bowl, San Francisco Pride bans corporations and cops from this year’s parade, and more mid-week reading!

By Carmen Phillips| January 21, 2020 | 3 Comments
Vapid Fluff

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are ENGAGED! Love Is Indeed Not a Lie!

Continuing to prove that the best way to court a writer is by offering up your own poetry, Debbie Millman chronicled their engagement via an Instagram rhyming carousel you may never forget.

By Carmen Phillips| November 13, 2019 | 17 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Gay for Roxane Gay’s Book Club

International Nonbinary Day selfies, remembering the gay communes of the ’80s, lesbian period dramas, gay music, and more!

By Ari| July 21, 2019 | 7 Comments
Vapid Fluff

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Girlfriends, Invite Us to Consider Love Might Not Be a Lie???

“Every day I tell myself that I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be loved, I deserve to have a hot girlfriend.”

By Carmen Phillips| June 18, 2019 | 37 Comments
Politics + Activism

15 Activists to Follow Right Now for Some Much-Needed Hope and Empowerment

I don’t scroll mindlessly through Twitter and Facebook anymore. What I do instead is engage with the women activists who are leading our way in the battle through the darkness.

By Heather Hogan| October 3, 2018 | 7 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Roxane Gay and Black Panther Forever

Interviews with cast of Pose, queer women in World War II, Janelle Monáe of course, and coming out because you’re in love!

By Ari| July 22, 2018 | 2 Comments
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Books

65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018

Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.

By Carolyn Yates| January 2, 2018 | 9 Comments
Books

The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017

2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.

By Carolyn Yates| December 18, 2017 | 18 Comments
The Resistance

Black LGBT Women Represent on The Root’s 100 Most Influential People List

When I look at this list, I’m fortified knowing that increasingly we are not being asked to choose between our blackness and our queerness as the movement moves forward. We are no longer being asked to do the work, but keep our faces in the shadows.

By Carmen Phillips| September 20, 2017 | 12 Comments
Books

A Lifetime of Aftermath: Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Dares You Not to Look Away

In a time when the word “healing” feels thinner than ever, affixed as it is to too many pictures of skinny, silhouetted yogis on beaches, we need to reacquaint ourselves with the severity of that process. This book is a generous offering to a society that may not know what to do with it.

By Aisha| June 23, 2017 | 12 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Maddow, Ortberg, Gay, and Ditto, and Other Stories You Care About Today

Rachel Maddow, Mallory Ortberg, Roxane Gay, Courtney Love, prison visits, America’s favorite pastimes, fat and femme and reshaping the yoga industry, trans and undocumented, some Bustle bullshit, and so much more!

By Laneia| June 15, 2017 | 30 Comments
Books

Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”: The Necessary Ugliness in Getting There

Gay is far more honest than most about the weird ways we actually solve for love. The necessary ugliness in getting there.

By Aisha| February 6, 2017 | 3 Comments
Books

45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need To Read in Early 2017

Everything you want to read.

By Carolyn Yates| January 16, 2017 | 9 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult

Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.

By Carolyn Yates| January 5, 2017 | 10 Comments
Books

Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2016

Read these f*cking books.

By Carolyn Yates| January 2, 2017 | 20 Comments
Books

15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016

Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?

By Carolyn Yates| January 7, 2016 | 31 Comments
Arts + Pop Culture

2015 OUT 100 Honors Roxane Gay, Abby Wambach, Hannah Hart, Other Women You Have Crushes On

The Out 100 has revealed 99 of its honorees, including the stars of “Tangerine,” the legendary Lily Tomlin, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and your girlfriend Carrie Brownstein.

By Riese| November 9, 2015 | 16 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit #65: Books In Boxes

New Toni Morrison, make a tiny zine, literary podcasts, writing difference and more.

By Carolyn Yates| February 5, 2015 | 10 Comments
News + Politics Society + Culture

25 Women Who Shook Things Up in 2014

From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.

By Carmen| December 31, 2014 | 17 Comments
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