She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve. America's brightest new essayist talks about the dark side of her fierce, funny writing.
Twenty years ago, when Roxane Gay was 19, she disappeared. She was studying at Yale, at the start of a new term, and instead boarded a plane to San Francisco, where she had arranged to meet a man she had befriended online. On the face of it, her life was good. She had a well-off, supportive family, a strong academic record, a potentially sunny future. But she had spent seven years struggling with the unmanageable secret of a childhood sexual assault, and her life was unravelling. When this online friend, a 44-year-old man, suggested they travel to Arizona, she said yes.
[For more of this story, written by Kira Cochrane, go to http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/roxane-gay-bad-feminist-sisterhood-fake-orgasm?CMP=twt_gu]
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