![]() ![]() Her writing is defined by contradiction, ease, emotional integrity and a generosity of perspective that has won her a huge and diverse following. It’s on the page where she gives freely, and there she gives all. Such qualities are too often interpreted as coldness or ferocity in women, but the abiding impression Gay gives is of someone who is not going to compromise herself. ![]() She comes across as considered and a little shy, which befits a writer whose hallmark is a kind of radical authenticity. “I’m so impressed by my wife all the time.”Īs an interviewee, Gay keeps her distance. “I am in a wonderful marriage,” Gay tells me. It is mid-morning in New York and Gay, 48, is drinking a takeaway cup of coffee in the eaves of the brownstone house she shares with her wife Debbie Millman. And, in many areas, such as reproductive freedom, we have lost ground, which is a bitter pill to swallow.” Most of the issues I wrote about are sadly just as relevant today. ![]() When I coined it, it was partly serious and partly tongue in cheek: if good feminism is the feminism that overlooks the intersections of identity that we all inhabit, then I’d rather be a bad feminist. So, nine years on, does the writer, editor, professor, podcaster, cultural critic, and Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, still consider herself a bad feminist? “I think I’m a better feminist now than I was,” says Gay when we meet on Zoom. ![]()
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