Gay, who grew up in Nebraska, admits that it is in her writing-on social media or otherwise-that she feels the most seen and heard. Or the time she simply responded, 'GOOGLE ME'. Often, people come for her simply because she is fat, black, and a (vocal) woman with a platform, but her comebacks are the tweets of legend: Like the time a troll declared her 140-character response to a topic insufficient, and she answered that her reply would be through The New York Times-and it was.
The best-selling author, who quickly became a hero for millennial women-myself included-with Bad Feminist in 2014 and Difficult Women last winter, is known for her social media clapbacks. “On Twitter, I just don’t give a fuck,” Roxane Gay tells me on the phone with a laugh. Here, Keah Brown talks to best-selling author Roxane Gay about some uncomfortable truths for our 2017 Women Who Dare series. They dare to do the impossible, encouraging young visionaries to break-not just push-boundaries, inspiring people around the world to fight for what they believe in. The new generation of #WomenWhoDare are those who refuse to conform.
