Roxane Gay | 'The Portable Feminist Reader'

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🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Award-winning writer Roxane Gay reflects on what she has learned from the young women in her life, and tells Stephen Colbert why her new anthology contains works by feminist writers stretching all the way back to the 1500s. "The Portable Feminist Reader" is available everywhere now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.1	It's the Late Show Pacho with Stephen Colbert.
1:09.3	Welcome back, everybody.
1:12.9	My next guest is an award-winning writer
1:15.8	whose best-selling books include bad feminist, difficult women, and hunger.
1:21.4	Please welcome to The Late Show, Roxanne Gay.
1:23.9	Roxanne, thank you so much for being here.
1:26.2	All right, so here we go. Your best
1:31.5	selling collection, Bad Feminist, came out 10 years ago. And for the uninitiated here, how do you
1:37.3	define being a bad feminist? And do you still consider yourself one? Well, definitely, yes, always.
1:44.8	But when I wrote the book, I was thinking about how I'm a feminist, but I can be inconsistent
1:51.0	in some of my ideologies.
1:52.8	Like, yes, I listen to hip-hop and salt shaker is just like poetry when you really listen
1:57.8	to those lyrics.
1:59.8	Magic.
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