Roxane Gay Reads An Essay From Her Book, Bad Feminist
3/10/202610 min
For the March edition of the Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read, Dua Lipa sits down with one of the most prominent feminist voices of this generation, Roxane Gay, to discuss her widely celebrated book of essays, Bad Feminist.
In this exclusive video, Roxane Gay reads an essay from the book, Peculiar Benefits. “It’s an essay I wrote when I was trying to think through my relationship to privilege. And how, at times, people are often reluctant to claim privilege, because they are marginalised in other areas of their life,”says Roxane.
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Roxane Gay· Guest0:58
[gentle music] Hi, I'm Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, among other books, and Bad Feminist is the March read for Dua Lipa's Book Club. Today, I'm gonna be reading an essay called Peculiar Benefits. It's an essay I wrote when I was trying to think through my relationship to privilege and how people are oftentimes reluctant to claim privilege because