Professor and Ride or Die author Shanita Hubbard returns to discuss the 2014 book of essays Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay for The Stacks Book Club. We look back at the collection and ask, how did the book hold up? Its mix of personal memoir, political commentary and pop culture references have us examining our relationship to the text from a new perspective in this spoiler-free episode.

Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for April 2023.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (audiobook)
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• The Stacks Review on Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard (IG @thestackspod)
• Sweet Valley High books by Francine Pascal
• Donald Goines
• The Rumpus
• The Washington Post
• Joan Morgan
• Lena Dunham
• Girls (HBO)
• The Bachelor (ABC)
• “Bachelor’s Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell: A Complete Relationship and Drama Timeline” (Sarah Hearon, US Magazine)
• Megan Thee Stallion
• “Drake – lacking creativity and common courtesy – takes a jab at Megan Thee Stallion in new album Her Loss” (Gabrielle Sanchez, AV Club)
• Taylor Swift
• Scrabble
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
• The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)
• Tyler Perry
• “Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulos deal” (Amber Jamieson, The Guardian)
• “The Steve Bannon-New Yorker controversy, explained” (Zack Beauchamp, Vox)
• “Author Roxane Gay Pulls Podcast From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s ‘Misinformation’” (Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone)
• Milo Yiannopoulos
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• “Roxane Gay: ‘Publishing Knows What They Paid Me, And They Should Be Ashamed'” (K.W. Colyard, Bustle)
• Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
• Trayvon Martin
• “Jahar’s World” (Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone)
• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
• 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• “‘I’ll always be a bad feminist!’: Roxane Gay on love, success – and upsetting Piers Morgan” (Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian)
• “Ep. 259 How Innocent Are They with Joseph Earl Thomas” (The Stacks)
• Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas
• The Last Black Man in San Fransisco (Joe Talbot, 2019)
• Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Hunger Games (Gary Ross and Francis Lawrence)
• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

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