If you pick up Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and open it up to a random page, it's entirely uncertain what you'll find. The collection of essays ranges in topic from popular culture to politics and back, at times finding surprising intersections between the two and at others taking an unflinching stance on a widespread conversation. Broken into five sections: Me, Gender & Sexuality, Race & Entertainment, Politics, Gender & Race, and Back to Me, Bad Feminist is filled with as much humor as it is a fierce determination to make sense of the world. In the introduction, she writes: "I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying — trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself: a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to music she knows, she knows, is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it's just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground."
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