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������’s Anti-Racism and Equity Institute invites members of the university community to attend “An Evening With Roxane Gay,” which will occur at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. This is the first public program offered by the Anti-Racism and Equity Institut

Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is widely revered. Her work has garnered international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. She has written books and novels, a collection of essays and a collection of stories. Her collection of essays, “Bad Feminist,” is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year, and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her debut novel, “An Untamed State,” was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, which is awarded to the best debut novel of the year by The Center for Fiction. Her bestselling books also include “Difficult Women” and “Hunger: A Memoir of My Body.”.

Gay co-hosts “Hear to Slay,” a podcast with an intersectional perspective, with Tressie McMillan Cottom. She writes the “Work Friend” advice column for The New York Times and recently established a publishing imprint with Grove Atlantic, Roxane Gay Books. She was the first Black woman to write for Marvel, creating a comic series in the Black Panther universe called “Black Panther: World of Wakanda.”