Roxane Gay

For author, cultural critic, and New York Times contributing Opinion writer Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective, always evolving, represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust debate.  

The Portable Feminist Reader, edited by Gay, features writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices including Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Cherríe Moraga, Audre Lorde, The Guerrilla Girls, and more. With an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism.  

The Portable Feminist Reader explores the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal, political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought. Gay is the author of several books including the bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, and Marvel’s World of Wakanda. 

All books will be pre-signed by Roxane Gay. A book signing will follow the event for those who would like a name added to their book.