Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Roxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse

Roxane Gay, a powerful literary voice and one of today’s most-watched cultural critics, joins in a reading and conversation with acclaimed fiction writer Katia D. Ulysse. Gay’s best-selling books include Bad Feminist; Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body; and Difficult Women. Ulysse is the author of Drifting and Mouths Don’t Speak. The writers, who both have Haitian roots, read from their work before a discussion with Tami Navarro of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Presented on November 8, 2018, by GC Public Programs, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the GC’s Center for the Study of Women in Society. Co-sponsored by Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Women Writing Women’s Lives; the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University.

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