:Roxane Gay

Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Michael and Nicole Gay, both of Haitian descent.{{cite news |last=Gregory |first=Alice |title=Daphne Merkin's "The Fame Lunches" and Roxane Gay's "Bad Feminist" |date=October 10, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/daphne-merkins-the-fame-lunches-and-roxane-gays-bad-feminist.html |access-date=June 5, 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite web |title=Roxane Gay |url=https://www.films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=169460 |website=Films Media Group |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en}} Her mother was a homemaker and her father is owner of GDG Béton et Construction, a Haitian concrete company.{{cite web |title=GDG, About GDG |url=http://www.gdgbeton.com/english/about.html |website=www.gdgbeton.com |access-date=15 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=Haiti's Rebuilding Effort Will Be Mammoth Task |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122937646 |website=NPR.org |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |date=25 January 2010}} She is a cousin of Harvard University professor Claudine Gay.{{cite news|url=http://afropunk.com/2018/07/meet-the-haitian-american-woman-whos-harvards-new-dean-of-the-faculty-of-arts-science/|title=Meet the Haitian-American woman who's Harvard's new Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science |last1=ZamaMdoda|date=25 July 2018|work=Afropunk|access-date=20 August 2018}}

Gay was raised Catholic and spent her summers visiting family in Haiti.{{cite web |url=https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/roxane-gay |title=Roxane Gay |publisher=wealthsimple.com |accessdate=2021-05-15}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/27/roxane-gay-writer-interview-literary-fiction-reading-diversely |title=Roxane Gay: 'Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that's gotten us' |first=Aida |last=Edemariam |author-link=Aida Edemariam |newspaper=The Guardian |date=December 27, 2018 |accessdate=2021-05-15}} She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.{{cite news |url=http://bombmagazine.org/article/10067/roxane-gay, |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202503/http://bombmagazine.org/article/10067/roxane-gay, |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |first=John |last=Freeman |title=Roxane Gay |newspaper=Bomb |date=Summer 2014}} Gay began writing essays as a teenager,{{cite news |last=Tietzel |first=Nina |title=Roxane Gay: Writer and self-proclaimed 'bad feminist' talks truth and fiction |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-05/roxane-gay-one-plus-one-talks-truth-and-fiction/6519280 |access-date=June 5, 2015 |agency=ABC |date=June 4, 2015}} with much of her early work being influenced by her experience with childhood sexual violence. Her parents were relatively wealthy, supporting her through college and paying her rent until she was 30.

After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, Gay began her undergraduate studies at Yale University, but dropped out in her junior year to pursue a relationship in Arizona.{{cite web |first=Molly |last=McArdle |date=February 22, 2017 |title=The Rise of Roxane Gay |work=Brooklyn Magazine |url=http://www.bkmag.com/2017/02/22/rise-roxane-gay/ |access-date=March 22, 2017}}{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/roxane-gay-the-bad-feminist-as-role-model-20150108-12k4gc.html |title=Roxane Gay, the Bad Feminist as Role Model |first=Susan |last=Chenery |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=Australia |date=January 17, 2015 |access-date=March 22, 2017}} She completed her undergraduate degree at Vermont College at Norwich University, and also received a master's degree with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.{{cite web |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a45920/roxane-gay-profile-hunger-memoir/ |title=Roxane Gay's New Memoir About Her Weight May Be Her Most Feminist—and Revealing—Act Yet |first=Marisa |last=Meltzer |work=Elle |date=June 14, 2017 |access-date=April 11, 2019}}

Gay received a Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University in 2010.{{cite web |title=Roxane Gay, Alumni and Friends, Michigan Tech |url=https://www.mtu.edu/alumni/recognition/profiles/gay-roxane.html |website=www.mtu.edu |access-date=15 August 2021}} She was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Circle.{{cite web |last=Harry |first=Lou |title=2018 Woman of Influence: Roxane Gay |url=https://www.ibj.com/articles/71267-woman-of-influence-roxane-gay |website=Indianapolis Business Journal |date=November 8, 2018 |access-date=15 August 2021}} Her dissertation is titled Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse About Students as Writers and Engineering Students as Technical Communicators. Ann Brady served as her dissertation advisor.{{cite journal |last=Gay |first=Roxane |title=Subverting the subject position : toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicators |date=2010 |journal=Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports – Open|doi=10.37099/mtu.dc.etds/84 |doi-access=free }}

After completing her Ph.D., Gay began her academic teaching career in 2010 at Eastern Illinois University,{{cite web |url=http://castle.eiu.edu/~acaffair/catalog/2010-11/09-CAH.pdf |title=2010–2011 Undergraduate Catalog |author= |publisher=Eastern Illinois University |access-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611035717/http://castle.eiu.edu/~acaffair/catalog/2010-11/09-CAH.pdf |url-status=dead }} where she was assistant professor of English. While at EIU, she was a contributing editor for Bluestem magazine,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bluestemmagazine.com/masthead/ |title=Masthead |publisher=English Department, Eastern Illinois University |magazine=Bluestem |access-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430032205/http://www.bluestemmagazine.com/masthead |archive-date=April 30, 2014 |url-status=live}} and she also founded Tiny Hardcore Press. Gay worked at Eastern Illinois University until the end of the 2013–14 academic year. She was an associate professor of creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Purdue University from August 2014 until 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/08/hannah-gadsby-roxane-gay-in-conversation-body-image-fan-encounters-trolls |title=Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: 'Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny' |author=Rebecca Nicholson |date=December 8, 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=UK |access-date=December 9, 2018}} Gay announced her departure from Purdue in October 2018, voicing concerns about the fairness of her compensation and noting Purdue had failed to address the issue.{{cite web |url=https://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/columnists/dave-bangert/2018/11/17/bangert-why-roxane-gay-best-selling-bad-feminist-leaving-purdue/2010071002/ |title=Why Roxane Gay, best-selling 'Bad Feminist,' is leaving Purdue |author=Dave Bangert |date=November 17, 2017 |publisher=Lafayette Journal & Courier |access-date=January 21, 2019}} For the spring of 2019 Gay was a visiting professor at Yale University. In 2022, she joined Rutgers University, becoming the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies.

Gay published a short-story collection, Ayiti (2011), then two books in 2014: the novel An Untamed State and the essay collection Bad Feminist (2014).{{cite web |url=http://www.roxanegay.com/about/ |title=About |publisher=Roxane Gay official website |access-date=December 9, 2018}} A Time review noted: "Gay's writing is simple and direct, but never cold or sterile. She directly confronts complex issues of identity and privilege, but it's always accessible and insightful."{{cite magazine |last=Feeney |first=Nolan |date=May 7, 2014 |title=Roxane Gay's Riveting Debut Novel An Untamed State |url=https://time.com/90402/roxane-gay-an-untamed-state-review/ |magazine=Time |access-date=April 10, 2016}}

In May 2021, Gay announced she was starting a new imprint under Grove Atlantic, called Roxane Gay Books.{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Elizabeth A. |title=Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/books/roxane-gay-books-grove-atlantic.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 17, 2024 |date=May 26, 2021}} The first three books to be published under the imprint were announced in 2023.{{cite web |title=The first three books from Roxane Gay's imprint have been announced. |url=https://lithub.com/the-first-three-books-from-roxane-gays-imprint-have-been-announced/ |website=Literary Hub |access-date=March 17, 2024 |date=March 28, 2022}}

In 2023, Gay was one of more than 370 New York Times contributors to sign an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in the newspaper's reporting on transgender people. The letter characterized the reporting as using "an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language", and raised concerns regarding the newspaper's employment practices regarding trans contributors.{{Cite news |title=N.Y. Times contributors and LGBTQ advocates send open letters criticizing paper's trans coverage |last=Yurcaba |first=Jo |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna70800}}{{Cite news |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157181127/nyt-letter-trans |title='New York Times' contributors slam paper's coverage of transgender people |last=Mary |first=Yang |date=Feb 15, 2023}}{{Cite news |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3859501-nyt-contributors-blast-papers-coverage-of-transgender-people/amp/ |title=NYT contributors blast paper's coverage of transgender people |last=Migdon |first=Brooke|date=February 15, 2023}} The following year, Gay published an essay in the New York Times decrying—despite the worthy tradition of Émile Zola's J'Accuse...! and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"—the open letter as a form that "Should End," as it allows writers to "hold fast to [their] deeply held beliefs without having to question them or grapple with doubt" and to "mitigate... helplessness with performance rather than practice."{{cite web

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{{Main|An Untamed State}}

In 2014, Gay published her debut novel, An Untamed State, which centers around Mireille Duval Jameson, a Haitian-American woman who is kidnapped for ransom. The novel explores the interconnected themes of race, privilege, sexual violence, family, and the immigrant experience.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/books/review/an-untamed-state-by-roxane-gay.html |title='An Untamed State,' by Roxane Gay |last=Bass |first=Holly |date=May 9, 2014 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} An Untamed State is often referred to as a fairy tale because of its structure and style, especially in reference to the opening sentence, "Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones," and the author's exploration of the American dream and courtship of Mireille's parents.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/07/an-untamed-state-roxane-gay-review-novel |title=An Untamed State by Roxane Gay review – 'an unflinching portrayal of sexual and spiritual violence' |last=Locke |first=Attica |date=January 7, 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

The Guardian review by Attica Locke calling it "a breathtaking debut novel," and The Washington Post crediting it as "a smart, searing novel."{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/an-untamed-state-by-roxane-gay/2014/05/27/0ebe0f7c-e28a-11e3-8dcc-d6b7fede081a_story.html |title='An Untamed State,' by Roxane Gay |last=Charles |first=Ron |date=May 27, 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}

File:Roxane Gay in conversation with Rachel Zellars - Montreal - 2015 (cropped).jpg

{{Main|Bad Feminist}}

Gay's collection of essays, Bad Feminist, was released in 2014 to widespread acclaim; it addresses both cultural and political issues, and became a New York Times best-seller.{{cite web |url=http://www.roxanegay.com/bad-feminist/ |title=Bad Feminist {{!}} Roxane Gay |website=www.roxanegay.com |date=August 5, 2014 |access-date=March 8, 2016}} A Time magazine reviewer dubbed Bad Feminist "a manual on how to be human," and called Gay the "gift that keeps on giving." In a 2014 interview with the magazine, Gay explained her role as a feminist, and how it has influenced her writing: "In each of these essays, I'm very much trying to show how feminism influences my life for better or worse. It just shows what it's like to move through the world as a woman. It's not even about feminism per se, it's about humanity and empathy."{{cite magazine |last=Feeney |first=Nolan |date=August 5, 2014 |title=Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist Is a "Manual on How to Be a Human" |url=https://time.com/3082038/roxane-gay-interview-bad-feminist/ |magazine=Time |access-date=March 8, 2016}}

In The Guardian, critic Kira Cochrane offered a similar assessment, "While online discourse is often characterised by extreme, polarised opinions, her writing is distinct for being subtle and discursive, with an ability to see around corners, to recognise other points of view while carefully advancing her own. In print, on Twitter and in person, Gay has the voice of the friend you call first for advice, calm and sane as well as funny, someone who has seen a lot and takes no prisoners."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/roxane-gay-bad-feminist-sisterhood-fake-orgasm |title=Roxane Gay: Meet the Bad Feminist |last=Cochrane |first=Kira |date=August 2, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=March 1, 2016}}

A group of feminist scholars and activists analyzed Gay's Bad Feminist for "Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism", an initiative of the feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.{{cite web |url=http://signsjournal.org/bad-feminist/ |title=Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay |website=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |date=Spring 2016 |access-date=February 2, 2016}}

{{Main|World of Wakanda}}In July 2016, Gay and poet Yona Harvey were announced as writers for Marvel Comics' World of Wakanda, a spin-off from the company's Black Panther title,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/books/black-panther-marvel-comics-roxane-gay-ta-nehisi-coates-wakanda.html?_r=0 |title=Marvel's World of Wakanda Will Spotlight Women, on the Page and Behind It |last=Gustines |first=George Gene |date=July 22, 2016 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 23, 2016}} making them the first black women to be lead writers for Marvel.{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roxane-gay-is-the-lead-writer-of-a-marvel-comic-heres-why-thats-huge_us_579b9aefe4b08a8e8b5df764 |title=Roxane Gay Is The Lead Writer Of A Marvel Comic. Here's Why That's Huge. |last=Blay |first=Zeba |date=July 29, 2016 |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=October 7, 2016}} Six issues of the comic were published.

Black Panther: World of Wakanda was hailed for its prominent portrayal of LGBTQ characters.{{Cite web |url=http://comicbook.com/marvel/2017/06/12/black-panther-world-of-wakanda-canceled/ |title=Marvel Cancels Black Panther: World Of Wakanda |first=JK |last=Schmidt |website=Marvel |date=June 12, 2017 |access-date=July 8, 2017}} The comic followed the journey of two lovers Aneka and Ayo, who are former members of the Dora Milaje, the Black Panther's female security force.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/books/black-panther-marvel-comics-roxane-gay-ta-nehisi-coates-wakanda.html |title=Marvel's World of Wakanda Will Spotlight Women, on the Page and Behind It |last=Gustines |first=George Gene |date=July 22, 2016 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} The series follows the pair through multiple events, including the siege of their city by Thanos and the flooding of Wakanda by Namor.

The series' cancellation was confirmed in June 2017 by Gay, just two days after the premiere of the trailer for the Black Panther movie. The last issue released in March 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://www.themarysue.com/world-of-wakanda-cancelled/ |title=Roxane Gay Confirms World of Wakanda's Disappointing Cancellation |website=www.themarysue.com |date=June 13, 2017 |first=Jessica |last=Lachenal |language=en |access-date=July 8, 2017}} Marvel stated no official reason for the cancellation; however, feminist tech site The Mary Sue pointed to a connection with Marvel's knock against "diversity titles" and Marvel VP David Gabriel's statement that "people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don't know that that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales."

{{main|Difficult Women (book)}}

In 2017, Gay published Difficult Women,{{Cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-roxane-gay-20170511-story.html |title=Roxane Gay and Randa Jarrar talk Twitter, 'Difficult Women' and kink in L.A. |last=French |first=Agatha |date=May 11, 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 22, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/10/difficult-women-by-roxane-gay-review |title=Difficult Women by Roxane Gay review – bold feminist stories |last=Newman |first=Sandra |date=February 10, 2017 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=June 22, 2017 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-roxane-gay-20170112-story.html |title=Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power |date=January 12, 2017 |first=Anna |last=James |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 22, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}} a collection of short stories that highlight women who have lives that differ from society's spectrum of a normal life. Each story follows a different character and her journey through either a traumatic experience or what makes her different from societal norms. The stories explore difficult and complex topics such as the intertwined relationship of sex and violence.

{{Main|Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body}}

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017.{{cite magazine |first=Christian |last=Holub |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/17/roxane-gay-difficult-women-hunger |title=Roxane Gay announces Difficult Women, delays Hunger |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 17, 2016}} Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive relationship with food, particularly following her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. In fact, the book is divided into two sections, "The Before" and "The After" with the day of her rape being the dividing event. At 12 years old, Gay was lured into a cabin by her then-boyfriend and gang raped by him and his friends. She describes the event as the catalyst for her rapid weight gain and lifelong issues with both her body and sexuality. Gay described the book as a testimony of "what it's like to live in a world that tried to discipline unruly bodies."{{cite web |url=http://elitedaily.com/women/roxane-gay-career-advice/1362491/ |title=I Want Your Job: Roxane Gay, Author Of 'Bad Feminist' |last=Bronis |first=Leeor |website=Elite Daily |language=en-US |date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=March 8, 2016}} The memoir received wide acclaim, praised by critics as "remarkable... ferociously honest,"{{Cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-roxane-gay-hunger-20170608-story.html |title='Hunger,' Roxane Gay's striking memoir of food, trauma and the body, is ferociously honest |last=Carroll |first=Rebecca |date=June 8, 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}} "arresting and candid,"{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/the-boldness-of-roxane-gays-hunger/530067/ |title=Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' Is a Searing Memoir About Weight and Trauma |last=Green |first=Adrienne |work=The Atlantic |date=June 13, 2017 |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US}} and "intimate and vulnerable."{{Cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/15/15801170/hunger-roxane-gay-review |title=Roxane Gay's new memoir, Hunger, is intimate, vulnerable, and radical |first=Constance |last=Grady |work=Vox |date=June 15, 2017 |access-date=July 8, 2017}}

She also wrote frankly about how she became morbidly obese and how society views her.{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/19/hunger-by-roxane-gay-review|title= Hunger by Roxane Gay review – how the world treats fat people|website= The Guardian|accessdate= March 25, 2025}} She wrote that she became obese when she was in high school and is still to this day, despite decades of trying to lose weight. She explores a society and culture which shames her for her weight. She cites specifically the struggles she endures being obese such as not being able to find clothes that fit her and the inability to sit in certain chairs. She described a publishing event in which she sat and broke a chair and the public humiliation she felt.{{cite web|url= https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/books/roxane-gay-confronts-the-truth-of-her-obesity-in-i-hunger-i/article_f9e6894d-7f6c-59f1-afe5-e9db9e9ed86d.html|title= Roxane Gay Confronts the Truth of Her Obesity in Hunger|website= Nashville Scene|accessdate= March 25, 2025}} She stated in an interview with Vice, that she has often been misgendered due to her weight. She added, "Being fat means you aren’t desirable. So as a woman, you are basically degendered. People also often read fat bodies as male."{{cite web|url= https://www.vice.com/en/article/roxane-gay-tells-us-about-daring-to-be-fat/|title= Roxane Gay Tells Us About Daring to Be Fat|website= Vice|accessdate= March 25, 2025}}

Following her national book tour in support of Hunger,{{Cite news |url=http://ew.com/books/2017/03/31/roxane-gay-hunger-book-tour/ |title=Roxane Gay to Embark on 'Hunger' Book Tour — Exclusive |first=Isabella |last=Biedenharn |date=March 31, 2017 |work=EW.com |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |url=http://bookriot.com/2017/04/04/roxane-gay-taking-hunger-across-america/ |title=Roxane Gay Taking 'Hunger' Across America |last=Masad |first=Ilana |date=April 4, 2017 |publisher=BookRiot.com |access-date=July 8, 2017}} Gay said she found press around the book "to be very challenging, because people just don't know how to talk about fat."{{Cite news |url=http://www.vogue.com/article/roxane-gay-interview-hunger-memoir |title=In Hunger, Roxane Gay Says What No One Else Will About Being Fat in America |work=Vogue |first=Janelle |last=Okwodu |date=June 18, 2017 |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en}} In June 2017, Australian website Mamamia published an interview with Gay, revealing numerous details about how they prepared for her visit, which they described as a "logistical nightmare" because of the apparent consequence of her weight. On Twitter, Gay later described these preparations, including questions like "Will she fit into the office lift?" as both "cruel and humiliating".{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/books/mamamia-roxane-gay-mia-freedman.html |title=Roxane Gay Promotes New Book and Calls Out Podcast for 'Fat-Phobia' |last=Fortin |first=Jacey |date=June 13, 2017 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 8, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} In an interview with The New York Times, Gay stated the controversial event was "helpful, in that I think people get to see, in real time, what fat-phobia looks like and just how careless people can be in considering that fat people deserve dignity. So I suppose it's a useful example of why I wrote the book."

At a February 2019 speaking event at USC, in the Q&A, supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party criticized co-speaker Amanda Nguyen's work in the U.S. government during the War on Terror;{{Cite web |url=http://dailytrojan.com/2019/02/14/visions-and-voices-event-disrupted-by-revcom/ |title=Visions and Voices event disrupted by RevCom |website=Daily Trojan |first=Maddie |last=Lazas |date=February 14, 2019}} in response, Gay defended Nguyen on Twitter.

Gay was the editor of the anthology titled Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. The collection, published in 2018 by HarperCollins, features essays from Gay and 29 other authors, including Stacey May Fowles, Lyz Lenz, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Ally Sheedy, Brandon Taylor, and Gabrielle Union.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/06/roxane-gay-to-edit-anthology-not-that-bad |title=Roxane Gay to edit anthology of 'dispatches from rape culture' |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=November 6, 2017 |website=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=March 12, 2018}}

Medium approached Gay in 2017 about the possibility of starting a "pop-up" magazine for the online publishing platform. The magazine would specialize in cultural criticism and provide pay for writers including Gay's work in an editorial capacity. The weekly online publication was produced with Medium's Deputy Editor Laura June and Managing Editor Kaitlyn Adams.{{Cite web |date=May 3, 2019 |title=Roxane Gay and Medium launch Gay Magazine |url=https://apnews.com/02d868d3b5fe4f2b9efb5ba4a78fbf56 |website=AP}}{{Cite web |date=May 1, 2019 |title=Roxane Gay's newly launched Gay Magazine is 'not disrupting online publishing. I don't have all the answers.' |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/roxane-gays-newly-launched-gay-magazine-is-not-disrupting-online-publishing-i-dont-have-all-the-answers/ |first=Roxane |last=Gay |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=NiemanLab}} The first issue, published in late April 2019, featured essays by Athena Dixon and Grace Lavery. In May 2019, Gay and Medium formally launched the new publication, Gay Magazine. The short-lived journal was also referred to on Medium as GAY The Magazine—The Best Stories About Culture and Gay Mag. The first of the planned quarterly themed editions appeared in June 2019; public submissions were solicited in addition to the commissioned articles.{{Cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=May 1, 2019 |title=Gay Mag |url=https://gay.medium.com/welcome-to-gay-magazine-bae0150eb8b8 |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=M: Medium}} The final issue of Medium's Gay Magazine was themed 'Power' and was posted on April 3, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic's global lockdowns.{{Cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=April 3, 2020 |title=Power: A Letter From the Editor |url=https://gay.medium.com/power-a-letter-from-the-editor-78a2cb6d2f15 |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=Medium: Gay Mag}}

In October 2019, when asked about Gay Magazine, Gay responded, "I'm doing what I always aim to do as an editor, which is to create a literary space for a range of voices who have something smart and interesting to say — and more importantly, to be able to pay them well. One of the biggest challenges of the digital media landscape is that the money is concentrated at the top and it rarely trickles down to the editors and writers, so to be able to have the support of Medium to create a publication — for however long it lasts – where we can pay people equitably and fairly is a really great thing. There is so much good writing going on out there, and I love being able to have a small hand in bringing that into the world."{{Cite web |last=Calder |first=Tyler |date=October 10, 2019 |title=Roxane Gay on Finding Humor, Protecting Your Energy, and the Unifying Power of Book Clubs |url=https://girlsnightinclub.com/posts/roxane-gay-on-finding-humor-protecting-your-energy-and-the-power-of-book-clubs/ |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=Girls' Night In |archive-date=June 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609190224/https://girlsnightinclub.com/posts/roxane-gay-on-finding-humor-protecting-your-energy-and-the-power-of-book-clubs/ |url-status=dead }}

Following Gay and Wendy C. Ortiz's public accusation of plagiarism against Kate Elizabeth Russell on January 21, 2020,{{Cite web |last=Shapiro |first=Lisa C. |date=February 18, 2020 |title=This is Not a Love Story |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/my-dark-vanessa-kate-elizabeth-russell.html |website=New York Magazine}} on January 29, Gay Magazine published an essay alleging that Russell's then-forthcoming novel My Dark Vanessa shared "eerie story similarities" to Oritz's memoir Excavation, calling My Dark Vanessa "fictionalized, sensationalized."{{Cite web |last=Ortiz |first=Wendy C. |date=January 29, 2020 |title=Adventures in Publishing Outside the Gates |url=https://gay.medium.com/adventures-in-publishing-outside-the-gates-a06f089c372e |website=Medium}} The Associated Press reported that "[r]eviewers who looked at both books saw no evidence of plagiarism,"{{Cite web |date=March 5, 2020 |title=Oprah Winfrey dropped 'My Dark Vanessa' book club pick after online controversy |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/03/05/oprahs-book-club-drops-my-dark-vanessa-controversy-american-dirt/4968416002/ |access-date=June 4, 2022 |website=USA Today}} and New York Magazine found the same.) In response to these allegations, Oprah Winfrey dropped My Dark Vanessa from her influential book club.{{Cite web |last=Hampton |first=Rachelle |date=February 1, 2020 |title=Why My Dark Vanessa Is the New Book Everyone's Angry About |url=https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/my-dark-vanessa-book-controversy-explained-american-dirt.html |website=Slate Magazine}} Russell denied the allegations.{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Kate Elizabeth |date=February 1, 2020 |title=A Note to Readers |url=http://kateelizabethrussell.com/note-to-readers |website=kateelizabethrussell.com}}

In April 2018, Gay partnered with the online publishing platform Medium to create a month-long pop-up magazine called Unruly Bodies. The magazine explored the relationship people share with their bodies, through an anthology of essays by 25 writers (including Gay herself).{{Cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxane |title=The Body Is Unruly – Unruly Bodies |url=https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-is-unruly-15fa352904cf |date=April 3, 2018 |access-date=April 25, 2018 |website=Medium}} Gay asked the 24 writers, "What does it mean to live in an unruly body?";{{Cite web |last=Kilkenny |first=Katie |date=April 3, 2018 |title=Roxane Gay on Body Positivity and Her New Pop-Up Magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roxane-gay-body-positivity-her-new-pop-up-magazine-1098491 |access-date=June 2, 2020 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} her book dealing with such issues, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, had been published in 2017. In a 2018 interview, Gay said, "I was surprised because I expected that I might get a lot of repetition, of [subject], not of style, but people wrote about all kinds of things. They wrote about gender, size, gun violence, wrestling, sex, ability. The range of issues from that one prompt, with the way that writers responded, was wonderful, and affirmed that I made very good choices in the writers that I approached."

In April 2018, over a year before the actual launch of the online magazine, "Gay Magazine" posted 25 articles in response to Gay's query under the heading Unruly Bodies; the writers were: Kaveh Akbar, Gabrielle Bellot, S. Bear Bergman, Keah Brown, Meghan Carpentier, Mike Copperman, Jennine Capó Crucet, Kelly Davio, Mensah Demary, Danielle Evans, Roxane Gay, Casey Hannan, Samantha Irby, Randa Jarrar, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, Terese Mailhot, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Brian Oliu, Tracy Lynne Oliver, Larissa Pham, Matthew Salesses, Chelsea G. Summers and Your Fat Friend.{{Cite web |date=April 3, 2018 |title=Unruly Bodies |url=https://gay.medium.com/unruly-bodies/home |website=Medium: Gay Mag}}

In December 2019, comic book publisher TKO Studios launched The Banks by Gay.{{Cite web |url=https://tkopresents.com/products/the-banks |title=Roxane Gay – Ming Doyle – The Banks |publisher=TKO Studios |access-date=November 12, 2020}} The Banks is a heist thriller about the most successful thieves in Chicago: the women of the Banks family. TKO Studios announced in 2020 a partnering with Macro (whose films have garnered nine Oscar nominations and one Oscar win for Viola Davis in Fences) to produce a film adaptation of the graphic novel. The screenplay is to be written by Gay, who is also serving as executive producer.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/roxane-gay-adapt-graphic-novel-banks-tko-studios-macro-1306757 |title=Roxane Gay to Adapt Graphic Novel 'The Banks' for TKO Studios, Macro |first=Mia |last=Galuppo |date=August 12, 2020 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=May 5, 2022}}

In January 2021, Gay debuted her newsletter The Audacity, featuring essays by herself and emerging writers on a bi-weekly basis. It is also home to The Audacious Book Club, which features one book per month highlighting new works from underrepresented American writers. It started with Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, followed by Torrey Peters' debut novel Detransition, Baby in February. Also featured in 2021 are books by Brandon Hobson, Ashley C. Ford, and Anthony Veasna So.{{Cite web |title=Roxane Gay Launches Newsletter, Book Club |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/roxane-gay-launches-newsletter-book-club/ |access-date=2021-03-26 |first=Michael |last=Schaub |date=December 29, 2020 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

Gay was the editor of The Butter, an online feminist writing site and sister site to The Toast, from November 2014 to August 2015.{{Cite web |url=http://the-toast.net/2014/11/17/butter-faqs/ |title=The Butter: FAQs |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=November 17, 2014 |website=The Toast |access-date=July 8, 2017}} The Butter featured writing on subjects including disability, literature, family, and music.{{Cite web |url=http://the-toast.net/2015/08/28/a-buttery-farewell/ |title=A Buttery Farewell |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=August 28, 2015 |website=The Toast |access-date=July 8, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127193453/http://the-toast.net/2015/08/28/a-buttery-farewell/ |archive-date=January 27, 2018}} The Butter ceased publishing in August 2015, with Gay stating she was "simply stretched too thin."

Gay was a U.S. Guardian columnist from 2015 to 2018.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/roxane-gay |title=Roxane Gay |newspaper=The Guardian |location=UK |language=en |access-date=March 21, 2019}}

Gay was the guest judge and guest editor of The Masters Review annual fiction anthology in 2017.{{Cite web |title=The Masters Review Anthology Archives |url=https://mastersreview.com/category/anthology/}}

Gay was featured in a five-minute segment of This American Life on June 17, 2016, talking about her body, and how she is perceived as a fat person.{{cite web |url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/tell-me-im-fat?act=3#play |title=589: Tell Me I'm Fat |date=June 17, 2016 |work=This American Life |access-date=July 6, 2016}}

Gay announced in January 2017 that she was pulling her book How to Be Heard, originally set to be published in 2018 by TED Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, due to her objections to alt-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos receiving a book deal from another Simon & Schuster imprint.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/25/roxane-gay-simon-schuster-milo-yiannopoulos |title=Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulos deal |last=Gay |first=Roxane |website=TheGuardian.com |date=January 25, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2017}}

She also edited the book Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies.{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Roxane-Gay/e/B00IRQLJA4/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1402155327&sr=8-2-ent |title=Roxane Gay |website=Amazon |access-date=July 18, 2014}} In addition to her regular contributions to Salon and the now-defunct HTMLGiant,{{cite web |url=http://htmlgiant.com/author/roxane/ |title=Roxane Gay – HTMLGIANT |work=htmlgiant.com}} her writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation and The New York Times Book Review.{{cite news |url=http://therumpus.net/author/roxane-gay/ |title=Posts by Roxane Gay |access-date=July 18, 2014 |magazine=Rumpus Magazine}} She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/new-daughters-of-africa-review-vast-and-nuanced-collection-1.3817638 |title=New Daughters of Africa review: vast and nuanced collection |first=Sally |last=Hayden |author-link=Sally Hayden|newspaper=The Irish Times |date=March 16, 2019}}

Gay was featured in the 2016 book In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs.{{Cite book |title=In the Company of Women |last=Bonney |first=Grace |publisher=Workman Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=9781579655976 |location=New York City |pages=85}}

In July 2019, Gay launched a book club on HBO's Vice News Tonight.

In 2019, Gay partnered with Tressie McMillan Cottom to create a black feminist podcast titled Hear To Slay, which featured influential black women as guests, including Stacey Abrams, Gabrielle Union, and Ava DuVernay.{{cite web |last=Colyard |first=Kristian Wilson |title=Roxane Gay's Podcast With Tressie McMillan Cottom Is Called 'Hear To Slay' & It's Coming Out Soon |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/roxane-gays-podcast-with-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-is-called-hear-to-slay-its-coming-out-soon-17129035 |website=Bustle.com |date=April 19, 2019 |access-date=May 20, 2019}}{{cite web |last=Stidhum |first=Tonja Renee |title=Roxane Gay and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom to Release 'Badass' Podcast Called Hear to Slay |url=https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/exclusive-roxane-gay-and-dr-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-t-1834164773 |website=The Grapevine |publisher=The Root |date=April 19, 2019 |access-date=May 20, 2019}} In 2022, the podcast was relaunched as The Roxane Gay Agenda.{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=2022 |title=Roxane Gay Launches Talk Show Podcast With Luminary |url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/roxane-gay-talk-show-podcast-luminary-1234905275/ |website=Deadline}}

In 2022, Gay partnered with the stationery company Baron Fig on a notebook designed to aid consumers' writing processes.{{Cite web |url=https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-draft-journal |title=The Draft Journal |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=10 May 2022 |website=The Audacity |publisher=Substack|access-date=7 September 2023}}{{Cite web |url=https://baronfig.com/products/draft-writing-journal?variant=39484980854867 |title=Confident Guided Journal |access-date=7 September 2023 |website=Baron Pig |quote=Everything you need to organize your ideas, plan out details big and small, and get to writing. In collaboration with Roxane Gay.}} She revealed in 2023 that she has been experiencing writer's block for five years.{{Cite web |url=https://audacity.substack.com/p/coping-strategies |title=Coping Strategies |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=6 September 2023 |website=The Audacity |publisher=Substack|access-date=7 September 2023}}

In 2025, it was announced that Gay and her partner Debbie Millman were the new owners of The Rumpus.{{cite web |title=Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are the new owners of The Rumpus. |url=https://lithub.com/roxane-gay-and-debbie-millman-are-the-new-owners-of-the-rumpus/ |website=Literary Hub |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=28 March 2025}}

Much of Gay's written work deals with the analysis and deconstruction of feminist and racial issues through the lens of her personal experiences with race, gender identity, and sexuality.{{cite web |title=Roxane Gay |url=https://www.cla.purdue.edu/facultystaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-14/Gay._Roxane.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823073313/https://www.cla.purdue.edu/facultystaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-14/Gay._Roxane.html |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |access-date=March 22, 2017 |publisher=Purdue College of Liberal Arts}}

Gay is bisexual.{{cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=October 11, 2015 |title=roxane gay |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/rgay/status/653367087361073153 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415102915/https://twitter.com/rgay/status/653367087361073153 |archive-date=April 15, 2019 |access-date=October 12, 2015 |publisher=Twitter |quote=It's national coming out day. I am bisexual af. I am also a libra.}} In October 2019, she became engaged to artist and writer Debbie Millman.{{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Carmen |date=June 18, 2019 |title=Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Girlfriends, Invite Us to Consider Love Might Not Be a Lie??? |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/roxane-gay-and-debbie-millman-are-girlfriends-thats-big-news/ |access-date=June 18, 2019 |website=Autostraddle |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxanne |title=Tweet |url=https://twitter.com/rgay/status/1195056647581790208 |access-date=November 14, 2019 |website=Twitter}}{{cite magazine |last=Gilchrist |first=Tracy E. |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Engaged |url=https://www.advocate.com/women/2019/11/14/roxane-gay-and-debbie-millman-are-engaged |access-date=December 1, 2019 |magazine=The Advocate}} In August 2020, Gay revealed that they had eloped.{{Cite web |title=Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer – Fatphobia (w/ Roxane Gay) |url=https://headgum.com/why-wont-you-date-me-with-nicole-byer/fatphobia-with-roxane-gay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912225237/https://headgum.com/why-wont-you-date-me-with-nicole-byer/fatphobia-with-roxane-gay |archive-date=September 12, 2020 |access-date=September 8, 2020 |website=Headgum |language=en}}

In January 2018, Gay revealed that she had undergone sleeve gastrectomy, a bariatric surgery that removes 75–85% of the stomach.{{cite web |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=April 24, 2018 |title=What Fullness Is |url=https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-that-understands-what-fullness-is-f2e40c40cd75 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |website=Medium}} She is {{convert|6|ft|3|in}} tall.{{cite news |last=Gay |first=Roxane |date=July 1, 2017 |title=Roxane Gay: My Body is a Cage of My Own Making |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/01/roxane-gay-my-body-is-a-cage-of-my-own-making |access-date=August 12, 2020 |work=The Guardian |location=New York |edition=US}}

In 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named Gay among the fifty heroes "leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people".{{Cite web |title=Queerty Pride50 2020 Honorees |url=https://www.queerty.com/pride50/ |access-date=June 30, 2020 |website=Queerty |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Gremore |first=Graham |date=July 21, 2020 |title=These queer writers are giving voice to our diversity one word at a time |url=https://www.queerty.com/queer-writers-giving-voice-generation-one-word-time-20200721 |access-date=August 13, 2020 |website=Queerty}} She was also included in the 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list.{{Cite web |title=Roxane Gay is No. 42 on the 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/queer-50/list/rank/42 |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US}}

• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |title=Ayiti |date=2011 |publisher=Artistically Declined Press |location=New York/Oregon |isbn=9781450776714}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |author-mask=1 |title=An Untamed State |date=2014 |publisher=Black Cat / Grove Atlantic |location=New York |isbn=9780802122513 |url=https://archive.org/details/untamedstate0000gayr |url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |author-mask=1 |title=Difficult Women |date=2017 |publisher=Grove Atlantic |location=New York |isbn=9780802125392}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |author-mask=1 |title=The Banks |date=2019 |publisher=TKO Studios |url=https://tkopresents.com/collections/titles/products/the-banks |isbn=9781732748583 |location=Los Angeles}}

• {{cite news |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |title=Group Fitness |url=http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/903-group-fitness |work=Oxford American |issue=60 |date=July 6, 2016 |language=en}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |author-mask=1 |title=The Year I Learned Everything |journal=Prairie Schooner |date=2013 |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=23–41 |jstor=24640291 |doi=10.1353/psg.2013.0032 |s2cid=201761324}} {{open access}}

• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |title=Bad Feminist |date=2014 |publisher=Harper Perennial |location=New York |isbn=9780062282729}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |author-mask=1 |title=Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body |date=2017 |publisher=Harper |location=New York |isbn=9780062362599}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |title=Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business |date=2023 |publisher=Harper Collins |location=New York |isbn=9780063341463|author-mask=1}}

• {{Cite book |title=Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture |publisher=Harper |year=2018 |isbn=9780062851468 |editor-last=Gay |editor-first=Roxane |location=New York}}

• {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Roxane |title=Subverting the Subject Position: Toward a New Discourse About Students as Writers and Engineering Students as Technical Communicators |date=2010 |publisher=Michigan Technological University |location=Houghton, MI |url=http://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=etds |format=Thesis/dissertation |oclc=774576963}}

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