IRB Intro Post #2: Bad Feminist

I chose to read Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay as my next IRB because I feel as though it is a good transition between 20th-century ideas of The Feminine Mystique and the issues going on currently related to feminism and women's rights in our political climate. The book is a 2014 collection of essays that were written by feminist writer, professor, and activist Roxane Gay, who uses her experiences as a Haitian-American growing up in the late 20th-century to shape her essay. I am very excited to begin reading this book and see how the philosophies it calls into question differ from or are similar to my own.