Roxane Gay & Kate Manne - The mild terror of publishing feminist cultural criticism
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, The New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and The New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda, the Marvel comic book series. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity.
Kate Manne
Kate Manne is a philosopher and associate professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, did her graduate work at MIT, and was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne. Her current research is primarily in moral, feminist, and social philosophy. Manne has published a number of scholarly papers, is the author of two books, and also regularly writes opinion pieces and essays in venues such as The New York Times, The Boston Review, Politico, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post.
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