![]() But even with her impressive list of credentials, Gay admitted to feeling like a fraud. "It never crossed my mind that my gender was an impediment to anything, let alone writing," said Gay. Chicago writer Lindsay Hunter kicked off Friday's foray into all things feminist with Gay by probing onset impostor syndrome. "You don't know which one is going to pull out a gun," she said. Last week it was announced that she won the 2015 PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award for "demonstrating exceptional courage in the defense of free expression." Edward ended up seeming like a softie after Gay mentioned the slew of threats she has received for her writing. Gay, currently an English professor at Purdue University, is the writer of the novel "An Untamed State" and the best-selling "Bad Feminist," both penned in 2014. ![]() Parker School's Heller auditorium for the Chicago Humanities Festival. And have a nice day." And then she shared the exchange and offered up his e-mail address to a sold-out crowd Friday night at the Francis W. And your tattoos are gonna get stretch marks." She wrote him back and said, "Thank you for the kind words. Roxane Gay's op-ed published in the New York Times last week about the young woman brutalized by a security guard in a South Carolina classroom really rubbed one particular dissenter, Edward, the wrong way.
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