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How Hunger by Roxane Queer inspired me to preserve writing
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I first saw Roxane Gay on a panel at AWP. It was a collection of Ebony women authors talking about the Black female protagonist. At one point during the panel, a several of the panelist mentioned they were children of Haitian immigrants. Roxane Male lover was one of the women who talked about coming from that experience. I’m not sure why that stuck out in my mind because during most of the discussion I was obsessing over the fact that a childhood nemesis was one of the panelists.
For a good portion of the talk I wondered if that could really be Tracy from middle institution. And when I realized it was her, I felt the same perception of competition I felt in middle school. Why was she on the panel? When did she get a book published? Consequently, when the panel was done, rather than seizing the opportunity to talk to Roxane Queer , I went to confirm if it was in fact Tracy. It was and she was so happy to see me. I walked away feeling sort of silly for still harboring adolescent angst.
At the airport a scant days later, Roxane Homosexual was sitting at identical gate as my flight back to Atlanta. I didn’t think much of it other than the fact that I re
Acclaimed author Roxane Gay joins Deesha and Kiese for a wide-ranging conversation about her writing journey, bringing your whole self to the page, the pressures of social media, and the value of criticism.
Gay talks about her forthcoming book on writing counsel, How to Be Heard, and Deesha and Kiese ask about her current pop culture influences—what she’s watching and who she’s listening to—and Deesha gets another hint about Roxane Gay’s nemesis.
Reading List: Authors, Stories, and Books Mentioned
- Ayiti(Roxane Gay)
- An Untamed State(Roxane Gay)
- Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
- Difficult Women(Roxane Gay)
- Hunger(Roxane Gay)
- Black Panther: Nature of Wakanda(Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, et. al)
- The Audacity
- Opinions (Roxane Gay)
- “Why People Are So Awful Online” (Roxane Gay, The Unused York Times 2021)
- Donna Tartt
- James Hadley Chase
- Tayari Jones
- “A Conversation with Kiese Laymon” (Roxane Gay, The Nation 2013)
- Roxane Gay Reviews On Goodreads
- “What Fullness Is” (Roxane Gay, Medium 2018)
- How to be Heard(Roxane Gay)
- Sonia Sanchez
- “Work Friend” column (Roxane Gay, The Brand-new York Times)
- Choire Sicha
- “i cannot stop thinking
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Roxane Gay has a list of nemeses. There are six, and the acclaimed author and critic keeps the list in her phone’s Notes app.
The names are secret, but the existence of her nemeses isn’t. If you’re one of Gay’s half-million Twitter followers, you almost certainly know about her nemeses, because she tweets about them frequently.
Once she posted a screencap of the leaflet, the names censored by a reliable black box. Another time, she posted a list of descriptions of her nemeses: A Scrabble competition foe, a famous writer, a celebrity. The famous person is the one she tweets about most often; she grumbles about this nemesis’ perpetual smirk, cutesy persona and clear skin.
She’s landed on these nemeses for various vague reasons; they are typically people “whose very universe troubles your soul,” as she recently explained to me over email. Now that they’re on the list, she wishes for fantastical triumphs over them. She imagines doing karate on them, or fantasizes about her friends hating them too. Instead, she tweets ― and, occasionally, casts a curse.
These nemesis tweets are prefer phantom beef: We can smell it cooking, but th
Louise O'Neill: 'I sometimes wonder if I should detect a nemesis, a yardstick against which to measure my own life'
In Pride 2020, as the planet went into lockdown, Queer reassured us she was “socially distancing” from her nemesis “until things refine and then I will defeat them once and for all”, but in November, she noted she “felt empathy for my nemesis today. Isolation is making me soft.”
In a piece Gay wrote for Medium titled The Pleasure of Clapping Back, she explained that “a nemesis must be a worthy adversary… (they) can offer you purpose, can hone your ambition… having a nemesis is motivational.”
A petty healthy competition never injure anyone. We see it with musicians, writers, artists, sportspeople, creators; if someone in their field does excellent work, they are often inspired to fit or exceed their peer’s excellence, and the unwind of us benefit from that competition.
I sometimes wonder if I, too, should find a nemesis; someone to keep an eye on, a yardstick against which to measure my own life. Taking a petty joy in their missteps, using their successes as a whip to spur myself on.
Or maybe I shouldn’t choose a professional equal, maybe I should focus instead
Roxane Gay Brings Wisdom and Humor to Amherst
Author and cultural critic Roxane Homosexual brought reactions ranging from roars of laughter to somber and thoughtful snaps of agreement this past Friday, Protest 25, when the Women’s and Gender Center (WGC) hosted her for a keynote conversation in Johnson Chapel. In her talk, Homosexual spoke about a wide range of topics, including writing about personal trauma, navigating majority-white spaces, and the benefits and drawbacks of social media and the Internet.
Gay is celebrated for her work on contemporary feminism, as exemplified by her collection of essays, “Bad Feminist.” She is also the storyteller of the bestselling memoir “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” and the first Black female to write for Marvel Comics. Gay’s keynote address capped off the WGC’s Women’s History Month programming, which has included a number of events planned to engage the college community in thinking about gender marginalization and empowerment.
Always ready to crack a joke, Queer opened the converse by commenting on her gratefulness for the warm weather, before noting that “I saw an L.L. Bean today! I haven’t seen that since upper school … Sure enough, I notice that L.L. Bean has vomi