Roxane gay stand your ground book

Gay lays bare the facts along with her experiences, exploring the uniquely American phenomenon of contemporary gun culture; the horrifying statistics that show the scope of gun violence; the gun industry’s eagerness to target women; the Second Amendment and who is and is not served by it; and what it means to stand one’s ground. The power to take a life, professor and social commentator Roxane Gay writes, receives greater constitutional and culture value than a women's right to the pursuit of happiness. Gay is the author of the New York Times best-selling books Bad Feminist and Hunger. Her latest work includes the essay Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminists Reckoning with America's Gun Problem.

Read Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Stand Your Ground by Roxane Gay with a free trial. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the, iPad, iPhone and Android. Roxane Gay, a feminist Black woman, narrates her essay on coming to terms with America's gun culture and growing ownership of guns, especially by Black women. In a thought-provoking consideration of this divisive topic, Gay is deliberate in her approach. She talks about how she came to buy a gun for protection in the face of increasingly specific and detailed death threats.

Show notes STAND YOUR GROUND: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem by Roxane Gay, published by Everand Originals, featured in the “Roxane Gay &” series, audiobook and ebook exclusively on Everand, Official music video for “Janie’s Got A Gun” performed by Aerosmith, From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader , readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought. Roxane Gay is The New York Times -bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.

Guests: Roxane Gay, scholar and author. Her new essay is "Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem." Her books include "Difficult Women;" "Hunger" and "Bad Feminist". The book, made up of a standalone essay and published by the reading platform Everand, was released today. Asked by Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta about the origin of the book, Gay explained she decided to write it after her brother convinced her to buy a gun. But that said, as long as the right is there, I think there are many Black gun owners who say, Why not?

Gay lays bare the facts along with her experiences, exploring the uniquely American phenomenon of contemporary gun culture; the horrifying statistics that show the scope of gun violence; the gun industry’s eagerness to target women; the Second Amendment and who is and is not served by it; and what it means to stand one’s ground. This has been an amazing project to work on because I was able to ask four writers I really admire to write about any topic they wanted, for as long as they wanted and then I just waited to see what brilliance they would conjure. I was not disappointed. Julia Turshen wrote Built For This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting about becoming a powerlifter and how it changed her relationship with her body.

Read Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Stand Your Ground by Roxane Gay with a free trial. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the, iPad, iPhone and Android. .