EWU's Get Lit! Programs is proud to present an evening with
Roxane Gay! Tickets will be $35 or $25 with valid student ID and tickets are available fo rpurchase here:
https://ev3.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=EBCTGET&linkID=twcorp-bct&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode=
We would like to thank the generous sponsors and community partners that made this event possible! These sponsors include the Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, Spokane County Library's Friends of the Library Foundation, Eastern Washington University's English Department, EWU's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, EWU's Multicultural Center, EWU's Women's and Gender Studies, EWU's Pride Center, the YWCA of Spokane, and Gonzaga University's Department of Political Science. Thank you all for helping us to bring Roxane Gay to Spokane!
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Roxane. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. She also released her collection of short stories, Difficult Women.
In 2018, she released Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a valuable and searing anthology edited by Roxane. Roxane’s newest work, How to Be Heard, is set to release in 2019.
She recently became the first black woman to ever write for Marvel, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. Roxane fronts a small army of avid fans on social media and when she finds the time, she dominates the occasional Scrabble tournament.
