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Why we need to speak about diversity differently

In the acting categories, no thespian of color was nominated. While Selma was nominated for Best Picture, director Ava DuVernay was not nominated for Best Director despite overwhelming critical acclaim for her work on the movie. Mexican writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu was nominated in several categories for Birdman, as a sole beacon of diversity and even then, he was being recognized for telling a white man’s story. Yet again, it was frustrating to observe excellence from people of color largely overlooked.

During the Oscars ceremony, that glaring whiteness was on full display as host Neil Patrick Harris made things even more awkward with jokes about the lack of diversity in the nominees. It’s not that Harris was expected to solve a longstanding cultural problem with a few jokes but it adds insult to injury to be reminded with pithy humor that the artistic contributions of people of color don’t matter.

Then there was a running gag where Harris charged Oscar winner Octavia Spencer with watching a clear briefcase containi

Books by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Bad Feminist
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Difficult Women
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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An Untamed State
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Ayiti
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Graceful Burdens
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
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Black Panther: World of Wakanda
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The Leading American Short Stories
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'These first stories showcase Gay's prowess as one of the voices of our age' National Post, Canada

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Lgbtq+, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience.

In Ayiti, a married couple searching boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young miss procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new existence but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood.

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Belletristik und Literatur

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Little, Brown Book Group

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Hachette UK Ltd.

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By Bianca Salvant

I recently walked to my local bookstore because I was in search of a guide that had just been released to the world. Carefully scanning the covers, I didn’t view what I was looking for. I asked the clerk to check inventory and he reached for an unopened box behind the counter, smiling, “We just got this in.” A thick yearning gathered inside of me as he handed me the stores first copy of Roxane Gay’s new collection of small stories, Difficult Women.

Gay has been unapologetic since her debut, Ayiti, published in It became increasingly apparent in , though, when Bad Feminist was released that she would utilize her platform to express herself in ways that could potentially make others uncomfortable. After reading her collection of essays and learning that she is of Haitian descent, I dug deeper into her narrative, finding myself curious about her journey. I found her on social media, her Twitter account having gathered a congregation of a rising , followers. Little by little, as with all creatives, her name continued to grow and would materialize in places