This is particularly clear when she’s writing about intersectionality, embodiment, violence, or what we expect from women as writers and literary characters.
She doesn’t suffer fools or brook simplistic approaches to feminist thought. About the incisiveness: Gay is an academic who writes in deliberately accessible prose, but one shouldn’t be fooled by the absence of jargon. Not only was it the perfect way to push the reset button,* it was also wonderful to read someone considering their own feminism and feminism at large in ways that were simultaneously incisive and generous.
Just finished: Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, which I enjoyed very much.
