In many instances, Gay’s writing blends the serious and the humorous. Women’s and Gender Center director Hayley Georgia Nicholas (left) introduced Dr. But as the evening went on, more serious topics came up, as when Gay mentioned her 2011 essay “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence,” her first foray into the cultural criticism for which she is now renowned. It was a light and funny opener to Gay’s visit as keynote speaker for Women’s History Month-and her wit is one reason the Women’s and Gender Center (WGC) was thrilled to welcome the bestselling author to Amherst. The entries detailed how Max had been eating, or refusing to eat, everything from expensive Kobe beef and chicken hearts to discarded newspaper and kitty litter. She read from the food log she had kept for days, at the veterinarian’s request, for her tiny dog, Maximus Toretto Blueberry. “First, I’m going to tell you about my puppy,” Roxane Gay said to the audience in Johnson Chapel on March 25. Roxane Gay, cultural critic and author of Bad Feminist, Not That Bad and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, spoke in Johnson Chapel.
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