No, I am not greedy, I am not confused, I am not a cheater. “Dear straight people,” she spoke into the mic, “stop asking me to choose. Watkins, an outspoken bisexual, opened the event with a poem from her forthcoming book “A Vessel Born To Float.” Gay is widely known for her works, “Bad Feminist,” “Difficult Women,” Marvel’s “World of Wakanda” and most recently, her memoir “Hunger.” She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, a professor at Purdue University, and was one of the first two black women to author a series for Marvel comics. The event, put on by the Women’s Research and Resource Center, featured Gay reading an excerpt from her memoir focusing on self-care and body image, and a Q&A session and a book signing for fans afterward.
8, with spoken word poet and actress Yazmin Monet Watkins.
A crowded, diverse auditorium greeted Roxane (“with only one n”) Gay as she took to the stage inside the Northridge Center on International Women’s Day, Mar.
