De Balie Podcast

‘I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all’, has been the adage Roxane Gay has upheld for more than ten years. In conversation with Roxane Gay about feminism not as a dogma, but as a practice, rooted in asking the right questions rather than finding perfect answers.Ten years ago, Roxane Gay’s essay collection Bad Feminist became a landmark for a generation that chafed against the idea of being the right kind of feminist. Her following book Hunger was an emphatic exploration of what it means to be fat in modern day society. As a cultural critic Gay covers a wide range of topics: from abortion rights to Chris Brown.In a time where the feminist movement is at times divided over what to fight for, who to fight for, Roxane Gay remains an influential freethinker. Stepping away from dogma’s, rigid ideological packages and pretensions of moral purity, Gay encourages her audience to ask a more urgent question: what kind of change are you willing to fight for?In her recent anthol