Her father was a civil engineer, so the family moved frequently and Gay didn’t form close friendships at school. “I am trying to become better in what I think and what I say and what I do, without abandoning what makes me human.” Roxane Gay is an essayist, novelist and speaker, as well as a self-described “bad feminist.”īorn in 1974 in Nebraska, United States, to Haitian parents, Gay was the oldest of three children.
