Women raped, beaten, humiliated, ready to do violence to themselves, to put themselves in dangerous situations to regain control. Women who make love, women who bear children, give birth to them or mourn them. Whether through essays, fiction or her Twitter feed, Roxane Gay always does a little bit: encourage women - ALL women - to take control of their history, to fight for their agency, their safety, their space, to understand and celebrate their flaws, their fears and their complexity.Ĭollection Difficult Women - which brings together short stories written mostly before 2012, when the writer was at university - depicts women who, despite trauma, violence, judgments and barriers, fight for the right to exist, and to live their lives as they see fit. By appropriating this ironic title of bad feminist, the author invited her colleagues to assume their contradictions and make them forces for the defense of gender equality. In 2014, the American writer and professor Roxane Gay launched the test – which has become cult – bad feminist a groundbreaking reflection on the current state of the women’s rights movement.
