The American author Roxane Gay is known for her essays on feminism, pop culture, sexual violence and racism. A conversation about “difficult women”, the limit to the private and their passion for Scrabble.
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Julia Rothhaas
You don’t have to be brave to write. Just acknowledge that it scares you – and then do it anyway, says Roxane Gay. That the American author and literature professor repeatedly crosses this threshold herself is proven in her numerous, often very personal essays, which she regularly writes for the New York Times and the Guardian composed. Gay, born in 1974, writes primarily about the topics that are particularly close to her heart as a black, queer feminist. She was also co-author of the Marvel comic book “World of Wakanda”, the template for the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Panther”. After her collection of essays “Bad Feminist” and her memoir “Hunger”, her book “Schwierige Frauen” has now been published in German – stories about the fact that there is no such thing as the one right way to be a woman. For the conversation, Roxane Gay is connected via video from New York, in the background her dog Max is going crazy. A craftsman is in the house, Gay excuses the constant yapping. The dog just doesn’t like men.