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A review by ammarahw
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.0
I think the perspective of this book is slightly dated. It seems like Gay lives in a circle that makes her feel like feminists need to be working all the time to better themselves and represent women well in every facet of their lives (and shouldn’t shave their legs or wear makeup). I feel fortunate that as a POC feminist I’ve been included and really only been given more choices about how I can shape my life compared to what I grew up with in my culture as an American born Indian woman. There’s far more productive media (I’m thinking specifically of books and movies) and representation for women and BIPOC compared to what she sites in her essays.
For the most part as someone born in 1997 I was able to grasp a lot of the pop culture references but not all of them. I feel like I was still able to get the point but the essays where I had seen that movie, read the book or watched the TV show were fun and I liked how reading this book felt like talking to her about whatever we’d seen and read.
Ultimately I think this is an interesting read that helps people take stock of where we were in 2014, how we’ve moved forward and places we haven’t made much progress and need do more.
For the most part as someone born in 1997 I was able to grasp a lot of the pop culture references but not all of them. I feel like I was still able to get the point but the essays where I had seen that movie, read the book or watched the TV show were fun and I liked how reading this book felt like talking to her about whatever we’d seen and read.
Ultimately I think this is an interesting read that helps people take stock of where we were in 2014, how we’ve moved forward and places we haven’t made much progress and need do more.