Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.