Legally Reading Book Club

Legally Reading: Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist: Essays is a 2014 collection of essays by cultural critic, novelist and professor Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist explores being a feminist while loving things that could seem at odds with feminist ideology. Gay's essays engage pop culture and her personal experiences, covering topics such as the Sweet Valley High series,  Django Unchained, and Gay's own upbringing as a Haitian-American. 

Read our next selection and join us on Tuesday December 10, 2019 at 12:30 PM at the Law Library Association. Brown bag lunches welcome. Beverages will be provided. 

The full list of the remaining titles and dates for 2019-20 is:

Tuesday December 10:  "Bad Feminist: Essays" by Roxane Gay

Tuesday February 11: "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo

Tuesday April 14:  "Strangers in Their Own Land" by Arlie Russell Hochshield

Tuesday June 9:  "The Beautiful Struggle" by Ta-Nahesi Coates

For more information, contact Library Director Gail Wechsler at 314-622-4470 or gwechsler@llastl.org.  Also look for additional information here.