Reading: Roxane Gay

Presenter Information

Roxane Gay

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

27-3-2015 8:00 PM

End Date

27-3-2015 9:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 27, 2015, as part of the 46th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Other Half,” Roxane Gay reads a piece about Mr. Rogers, excerpts from her novel An Untamed State, and an essay titled “Typical First-Year Professor.” Gay also responds to audience questions about the accessibility of feminism in her work, how women are treated in media like comic books and superhero movies, what she would say to people who are hesitant to label themselves as feminists, the male response to her writing, interviewing Toni Morrison, her next book titled Hunger, the ways in which bodies are valued in society, dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and others.

Introduced by Sandra Kruse.

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Mar 27th, 8:00 PM Mar 27th, 9:00 PM

Reading: Roxane Gay

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 27, 2015, as part of the 46th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Other Half,” Roxane Gay reads a piece about Mr. Rogers, excerpts from her novel An Untamed State, and an essay titled “Typical First-Year Professor.” Gay also responds to audience questions about the accessibility of feminism in her work, how women are treated in media like comic books and superhero movies, what she would say to people who are hesitant to label themselves as feminists, the male response to her writing, interviewing Toni Morrison, her next book titled Hunger, the ways in which bodies are valued in society, dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and others.

Introduced by Sandra Kruse.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2015/day3/1