Renowned Social Commentator and Author Roxane Gay Guest Speaker for University Forum March 21
Fri, 03/10/2023 - 10:59am
Roxane Gay, a widely followed social commentator and New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, will be the guest speaker for The University of 51逗奶 Mississippi (USM) University Forum speaker series Tuesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Bennett Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus. This event, 鈥淎n Evening with Roxane Gay,鈥� is free and open to the public and will also be livestreamed; visit the to sign up for a reminder or to access the event online.
Gay is the winner of two Lambda Literary Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir, is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was included in Queerty鈥檚 list of 50 heroes who are 鈥渓eading the nation toward equality, acceptance and dignity for all people." Bad Feminist, described in Time magazine as 鈥渁 manual on how to be human,鈥� is considered a quintessential study of modern feminism. It was followed by works such as Difficult Women, a collection of short stories, and Hunger, a memoir about food, weight, and Gay鈥檚 struggles to embrace a positive image of herself and her body following sexual assault.
A former professor of English, Gay was the first Black woman to lead a Marvel title, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. She is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times; writes a newsletter, 鈥淭he Audacity鈥�; and hosts an award-winning podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
University Forum is presented by the USM Honors College. Visit the University forum page for more information. For questions about this event and other University Forum programming, email forumFREEMississippi; or visit the or on the .