In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.There are so many good things to take away from this book. I love how Gay frames feminism in a personal way, how its okay to be a "bad" feminist, that everyone is human and has things they need to work on. Feminism also isn't this concrete set of rules, a right and wrong feminism. Too often, people are afraid to label themselves as feminists because they don't subscribe to purportedly "feminist" musts (i.e. no shaving your legs, man-hating, aggressive, etc).
It's important to love yourself and to work on how you approach the world to try and be better and it's okay if you fail. We can love the things we love - recognize whether they aren't feminist - and work on trying to change those things, and ourselves, so that we can live in a world where we don't have to worry about whether or not something is misogynistic or made for men because we'll be living in a world where that isn't the automatic thing or the norm. It will be a long fight, but we can do it - and we shouldn't sit by complacently and let these things happen, either.
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