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Join WBEZ in conversation with New York Times best-selling author and feminist icon Roxane Gay. Gay will discuss her newest title, The Portable Feminist Reader, with the host of WBEZ’s Reset, Sasha-Ann Simons. 1 We highly value your privacy. Personal information is data that can be used to directly or indirectly identify you. 2 Gay joins Chicago author Lindsay Hunter (who appears at Chicago Humanities with her latest novel Hot Springs Drive, published by the new Roxane Gay Books imprint) for a conversation on politics, feminism, the culture wars, and civil rights, as they reflect on the past decade in America and where we go from here. 3 The access and use of this site shall thereby constitute the approval of the 'user' to be bound by the following;. The access and use of this site shall be governed by the following terms and agreement 4 Windy City Times talked with acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, feminist icon, and pop culture commentator Roxane Gay in advance of the upcoming event, “An Evening with Roxane Gay & Sasha-Ann Simons,” coming to Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood on Wednesday, March 5 For more than a decade, Roxane Gay has been one of the most influential voices in modern feminism. Through works such as Bad Feminist , Hunger and Not That Bad , she has explored the contradictions, complexities and personal stakes of gender, power and culture, bringing both sharp critique and deep empathy to the conversation. 6 Roxane Gay will speak about The Portable Feminist Reader at Chicago’s Athenaeum Center on Wednesday, March 26 at p.m., in conversation with Sasha-Ann Simons, the host of WBEZ’s Reset. 7 Roxane Gay: I think it definitely is part of the definition of feminism and probably the fundamental mission of it. Treat people, and women in particular, like human beings with dignity. 8 With her new book, The Portable Feminist Reader, Gay, who taught at Eastern Illinois University from to and whose imprint under Grove Atlantic has published Chicago author Lindsay. 9 . 10