![]() ![]() She also talks about the representation of people of colour in American media, being overweight and how the realities of life with her body type are rarely treated with respect, and how she struggles to fit an outdated, damaging perception of what feminist practice should look like. She eases us into things slowly by talking about subjects that are somewhat innocuous - like her days playing at competitive Scrabble tournaments and her love of the Sweet Valley series in middle and high school - but as the book progresses, she tackles weightier issues: the erasure of black lives and experiences in America, feeling isolated as an young black woman in a school full of perfect, cornfed-looking white kids, the stresses of academic life, and being gang-raped as a teenager. By turns funny, candid, and painful, she brings her considerable wit to bear on a variety of topics. Roxane Gay is supremely comfortable with this style of writing, as Bad Feminist, her recent essay collection, shows. ![]() And one of the things that he recommends is to get comfortable with the personal essay as an artform. My instructor, David Hayes, is showing me and my classmates how to incorporate elements of narrative writing - scenes, settings, main characters, and story arcs - into non-fiction pieces. One of the things that I’m doing these days is taking a course in feature-length magazine writing. ![]() How I got it: I borrowed a copy from the library ![]()
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