A group of those friends-Laurence Jose ’10, Karen Koethe But during her Michigan Tech days, some of us were lucky enough to have front-rowĪccess to Gay, back when she hosted a weekly gathering of-dare I say it-bad feminists Twitter followers, and events that sell out in a matter of minutes, Gay is in highĭemand. With a New York Times op-ed column, 202,000-some It’s something her many fans admire, too.
Gay was at the ready with provocative, thoughtful comments. Theoretical and philosophical, to pop culture and celebrities. The chase, for getting to the heart of the matter. New York Times bestselling author, cultural critic, and professor Roxane Gay has Michigan Tech roots.īefore she wrote Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger, Gay ’10 was a graduate student in Tech’s Rhetoric and Technical Communication program.Įven back then, Gay’s classmates took notice of her knack for eloquently cutting to
