From trans rights to Trump, American writer and social commentator is not afraid to say what she thinks. Here she talks about treated like an ‘opinion vending machine’, dealing with death threats and why her book about living in a larger body connected with people of all sizes
Roxane Gay
I hadn’t planned to, but as I talk with Roxane Gay ahead of her forthcoming appearance in Dublin, I find myself admitting to her that I was a little nervous beforehand about this interview.
“It’s just that you’re terrifyingly no-bullshit,” I tell her, as she raises an eyebrow. And it’s this forthright quality that has become her stock-in-trade. Not just that, it has made Gay one of the most renowned American writers and commentators of her generation. Though she has dialled down her Twitter use — more on which later — she still has over 780k followers on the social media platform (and 341k on Instagram).
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