{"id":51120,"date":"2017-01-10T01:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51120"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:31:57","slug":"in-roxane-gays-difficult-women-youre-either-difficult-or-youre-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51120","title":{"rendered":"In Roxane Gay\u2019s Difficult Women, you\u2019re either difficult or you\u2019re dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2017\/1\/3\/14088952\/roxane-gay-difficult-women-review\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>In Roxane Gay\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Difficult Women<\/strong><em><strong>, you\u2019re either difficult or you\u2019re dead<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vox<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/constancegrady\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Constance Grady<\/strong><\/a>, Culture Writer<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxanegay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roxane Gay<\/a> picks up a label, she\u2019ll play with it, rip it apart a little, break it down, and finally embrace it. She did it in 2014 with her essay collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062282712\/bad-feminist\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bad Feminist<\/em><\/a>, which explored what it means to be a committed feminist who also likes to dance to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blurred_Lines\" target=\"_blank\">Blurred Lines<\/a>,\u201d who is not beholden to an ideological purity. And now she\u2019s doing it again in her new short story collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780802125392\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Difficult Women<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A difficult woman, in these stories, is usually a woman who has been hurt, typically by living under the patriarchy and under white supremacy. The injuries vary, ranging in scope from the blunt force of unimaginable trauma to the death-by-a-thousand-papercuts of daily microaggressions.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cI Will Follow You,\u201d the difficult woman was kidnapped by a child molester when she was 10 years old. In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thecollagist.com\/the-collagist\/la-negra-blanca.html\" target=\"_blank\">La Negra Blanca<\/a>,\u201d she\u2019s a mixed-race med student who moonlights as a stripper and is constantly fetishized by men who think of her as a white girl with a black girl\u2019s ass. In \u201cBest Features,\u201d she\u2019s a fat woman who is quietly furious at how worthless the world considers her to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2017\/1\/3\/14088952\/roxane-gay-difficult-women-review\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Roxane Gay\u2019s Difficult Women, you\u2019re either difficult or you\u2019re dead Vox 2017-01-03 Constance Grady, Culture Writer When Roxane Gay picks up a label, she\u2019ll play with it, rip it apart a little, break it down, and finally embrace it. She did it in 2014 with her essay collection, Bad Feminist, which explored what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20,25],"tags":[23503,25800,18116],"class_list":["post-51120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-constance-grady","tag-roxane-gay","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51125,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions\/51125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}