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"She is doing so much more, but what you do is use the door that Beyoncé is opening and use that to introduce your students to Bell Hooks and the wide range of feminist thought that is out there so they understand that feminism does not begin or end with Beyoncé. I just think that when people say 'oh she is just promoting sex,' people are being short sighted. And we rarely get to see the intact black family, even though they exist. "I think that is amazing and I think that is truly groundbreaking, because all too often the sexuality of black women is demonized and here is a woman who is owning it. I don’t think that she’s saying that owning your sexuality is feminism, but for a black woman to be married and to own her sexuality and say 'yea you know what we are doing it every night and we are fucking up the Warhol.' I mean come on I’ve seen the Partition video. What Beyoncé is doing is just opening the door. So what we have to do as educators is teach our students about the broader movement. There’s only a disconnect if you identify Beyoncé as the only source of feminism for these young women. On the conflation of feminism with sexiness and the disconnect between the two: I don’t care if celebrities are feminists, but I do worship at the altar of Beyoncé. Because you know poverty is still going to exist tomorrow, whether or not Beyoncé is a feminist or not. "But I also think that discussing 'is she or is she not a feminist?' is the stupidest conversation I’ve ever hear in my life. So if you have anything negative to say about Beyoncé’s feminism, I can’t see you. Young Girls saw that and understood that if you want to be cool like Beyoncé it’s okay to own feminism. "A 33-year-old woman put the word feminism on national television on MTV, on a channel that plays the 'Blurred Lines' video. In fact I’m going on NPR on Friday to talk about all the Beyoncé feminism haters: they’re going to get theirs. Did I watch our queen, give us a performance? I transcended this plane and I am no longer able to hear Beyoncé criticism. We want everything to be what we need all the time, but that’s just not the way the world works.” “I think that as a culture we are looking for sound bites and it’s difficult: people find it difficult because they’re too lazy to hold more than one position at the time, or to accept that things are flawed and imperfect. On the difficulty of having opposing opinions within a movement: The one topic that, despite the range of talking points, kept resurfacing and is the crux of Bad Feminist, was the idea that feminism is flawed but still inherently necessary and vital in our contemporary age.Īfter reading, Gay answered questions on feminism, Beyoncé, tragedy and writing. Gay went on to read a selection of essays from one of two books she published this summer, Bad Feminist, which was the central axis point in conversation for the entire night.
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She opened the evening by reading live tweets that she sent while reading the September Issue of Vogue, famed for its heft in size and advertisements. She swore, bashed both the famous and parochial, discussed topics from rape to Sweet Valley High, and offered literary and political musings, cultural commentary and advice to everyone present. Gay, so seemingly settled and relaxed, so nonchalant and open with the audience, felt more like an old college friend than a famed feminist writer. With the first attendees showing up well before 6:30 p.m., people were not only sitting on the stage beside Gay, but huddled and curled around tightly packed book shelves as well. Roxane Gay’s reading and Q&A at Women and Children First last Wednesday drew in a crowd that could barely fit in the modest Andersonville bookstore. Roxane Gay Speaks About Feminism, Twitter, Trauma And Beyonce By Jaclyn Bauer in Arts & Entertainment on 3:00PM