One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’ depicts a reluctant teenage astronaut idling away her post-apocalyptic adolescence huffing gasoline and fooling around with her five brutish shipmates, all named Tommy. In ‘Surfer Girl’, the title character drifts through time, tormented by the bizarre cliches of drive-in B-movies. I Am a Magical Teenage Princess is a thematically linked collection of short stories celebrating and re-examining 1960s and contemporary culture, magnifying such popular icons as Betty and Veronica and Wonder Woman through a literary lens of wit and pathos.
“Being unlikable is not unacceptable.I am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes “It’s not necessarily a question of how we learn to live with being unlikeable, it’s how we learn to stop placing value judgements on behaviours of others.” - #3bookspodcast “In a perfect world, children would not feel like sexuality is this shameful secretive thing.” - #3bookspodcast “I think we have to decouple sex from shame and from morality, and do so in age-appropriate ways, and in ways that respect parents’ values.” - #3bookspodcast “When we talk about wokeness really what we’re saying is that you make me uncomfortable because you are forcing me to question my place in the world and how the world functions and how I benefit from it.” - #3bookspodcast “When we talk about cultural relativism, especially in the United States, we tend to be overly prescriptive and to think that what is good for us is inherently good for everyone else, but that’s not the case.” - #3bookspodcast
“I didn’t really learn that I deserved to be loved well until I was loved well.” - #3bookspodcast
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But most of us are full of self loathing and people love us anyway.” - #3bookspodcast “A lot of self-help has you believe that you have to find that thing within yourself and that if you work hard enough at loving yourself you will be ready for someone to love you and that’s just nonsense. “There isn’t any nobility in settling.” - #3bookspodcast How do we stop caring about what other people think? Why is it so destructive to associate sex with shame? How do we teach kids about sex these days? What are the ingredients for finding love? How do you navigate the TBR (to be read) pile? Please email Manuela at with your donation receipt. I will match all 3 Books listener donations up to $5000. The arts world needs us all the time but even more so during this pandemic. This chapter is in partnership with Roxane and Performance Space NY, an alternative arts hub currently raising funds for housing insecure Black and trans artists. Are you ready to hang out with Roxane’s incredibly compelling mind? We talk relationships, love, morality, sex, and, of course, her three most formative books. 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?