I read and loved Bad Feminist, dug into her treasure trove of essays on Medium, and listened to her on many podcasts including two episodes on the wonderful Design Matters with her wife Debbie Millman. I spent weeks preparing for this conversation and felt like a ravenous wolf trying to read and listen to as much Roxane as I could find. Roxane’s work is known for challenging mainstream narratives and deconstructing feminist and cultural issues through the lens of her personal experience as a Black queer writer. She launched Tiny Hardcore Press (in her words, publishing “books tiny in stature but grand in reach and spirit,”) and has been a professor at Eastern Illinois, Purdue, and Yale. She was an editor for The Rumpus, co founded PANK literary magazine, and is currently editor at Gay Mag. She is the author of numerous bestselling books including Ayiti, Bad Feminist, An Untamed State, Difficult Women and Hunger. She writes the Work Friend column at The New York Times as well as regular Op-Eds. Oh no, no, no, no, no! Roxane Gay is not that. So she’s an Internet junkie then, right? One of those social media “influencer” people? That kind of thing? Over 1,000,000 people follow Roxane across Twitter, Instagram, and GoodReads, where she is, no big deal, currently the #1 ranked best book reviewer on the entire platform. Is it any wonder Roxane Gay has been dubbed by Playboy as the most important and most accessible feminist critic of our time?