This week Gay launches The Butter, her own companion site to Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg’s The Toast, where Gay will edit a mix of cultural essays, advice, and, judging by Cliffe and Ortberg’s precedent, whatever she wants to publish.
In addition to the regular bookstore circuit, she’s the new darling of the Women’s Studies academy with invitations to speak at colleges and universities around the country. She is the subject of interviews and profiles in all the big media outlets at home and abroad. Bad Feminist spent a month on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Roxane Gay is on the verge of being our next feminist icon. With a bestselling book and a new site, Roxane Gay is a welcome threat to mainstream feminist sensibilities
