
Bad Feminist

When we talk about privilege, some people start to play a very pointless and dangerous game where they try to mix and match various demographic characteristics to determine who wins at the Game of Privilege.
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.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
We forget the difference between feminism and Professional Feminists.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
Wanting to belong to people or a person is not about finding a mirror image of myself.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
Playing the Game of Privilege is mental masturbation—it only feels good to those playing the game.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
All too often, suffering exists in a realm beyond vocabulary so we navigate that realm awkwardly, fumbling for the right words, hoping we can somehow approximate an understanding of matters that should never have to be understood by anyone in any place in the world.
Roxane Gay • Bad Feminist
Being good is the best way to be bad.
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.