
Bad Feminist

Privilege is relative and contextual.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
We forget the difference between feminism and Professional Feminists.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
Perfection often lacks texture.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
It is tiring to constantly be told how lucky we are. Luck and loneliness, it would seem, are very compatible.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
I want characters to do the things I am afraid to do for fear of making myself more unlikable than I may already be.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
The problem with movements is that, all too often, they are associated only with the most visible figures, the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest, most provocative voices.