Sus ensayos no exigen la credencial de "feminista" para ser leídos. Con un estilo a veces ácido y corrosivo, otras íntimo y personal, pero siempre potente y crítico, Roxane atraviesa el entretenimiento masivo: desde Cincuenta sombras de Grey hasta Los juegos del hambre sin olvidar a Quentin Tarantino y Orange is The New Black, para rescatar valiosas lecciones e incómodas verdades sobre la discriminación, el privilegio y la frustración de querer un mundo más justo.
La pluma de Gay, filosa como una catana, explora la cultura pop para extraer verdades incómodas acerca de cómo somos representados en el cine, la televisión y la literatura. The neon VAC N Y sign crackled as it struggled to stay illuminated.Confesiones de una Mala Feminista by Roxane Gay "La lucha por los derechos de las mujeres ha tomado el mundo por asalto, pero ¿por qué muchas de sus simpatizantes caen en tantas contradicciones? ¿Por qué parece haber tantas malas feministas? Roxane Gay, profesora universitaria, colaboradora de The New York Times, ensayista y novelista con más de un millón de visitas en su charla TED sobre feminismo, tiene algunas respuestas a esas preguntas. Mold patterns covered the stucco walls in dark green and black formations. The Blue Desert Inn looked abandoned, forgotten. As we crossed the California border, I sat up and said, “I really hate you,” but I held on to my sister’s arm, too. I curled into the door, pressing my cheek against the glass. “Don’t make me go alone,” Carolina said, her voice breaking.Īn hour later, we were on the interstate, heading east. Spencer covered his face with a pillow and mumbled something we couldn’t understand. She smelled like hair spray and perfume.Ĭarolina kissed the back of my neck.
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Her skin was damp and strangely cool, like she had been running in winter. When we didn’t answer, Carolina let herself in, barged into our bedroom, and crawled in next to me. He shook me but I groaned and rolled away.
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My relationship with Spencer left a lot to be desired for many reasons, not the least of which is that he spoke only in movie lines, thinking this made him more credible as a cinephile. I was asleep, my boyfriend Spencer’s arm heavy and hot across my chest, when Carolina knocked. I didn’t want to go to Nevada so she stayed and they remained married but lived completely apart. Carolina doesn’t like to be told what to do and she wasn’t going to leave me. He didn’t need to work being married to my sister but he was inconsistently old-fashioned about the strangest things. She said, “There’s not much you can do with men but he won’t mess with you, I promise.” She was right.ĭarryl decided to move to Nevada, better prospects he said, and told Carolina she was his wife, had to go with him. When I told my sister she laughed and shook her head. Carolina usually wasn’t home from her volunteer job yet so I’d wait for her and watch television and drink warm beer while Darryl, who couldn’t seem to nd work, stared at me, telling me I was a pretty girl. I’d visit them after my classes at the local university. When they nally moved out, Carolina and Darryl lived in a crappy apartment with pea-green wallpaper and a balcony where the railing was loose like a rotting tooth. My mom called it getting on their feet but they spent most of their time in bed so I assumed getting on their feet was a euphemism for sex. Darryl, her husband, was a decade older but he had a full head of hair and she thought that meant something. I said, “What does that have to do with me?”Ĭarolina married when she was nineteen. My sister decided we had to go see her estranged husband in Reno. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available for this title.įor di cult women, who should be celebrated for their very nature CONTENTS
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