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Roxane Gay: Meet the Bad Feminist
By Kira Cochrane — 2014
She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve. America’s brightest new essayist talks about the dark side of her fierce, funny writing.
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