These pieces have been gathered in Opinions, and they showcase her work as a thinker, grappling with the questions of our time. Gay made a name for herself with her pieces, which often turned conventional opinion writing on its head-decisive, funny takes that sat squarely in the space between logic and empathy, and eschewed conventional pundit wisdom. ![]() At the time, media outlets were just beginning to take digital spaces seriously, and the demand for well-written content meant that opportunities opened up for fiercely talented writers who would have been overlooked a generation before. Gay rose to prominence with the op-eds and short pieces she wrote for places like The Guardian and Medium-news outlets that, for a window of time in the mid-’00s to early ’10s, opened their opinion pages to voices other than the straight, white, and older ones that tended to dominate the genre. ![]() ![]() Reading Roxane Gay’s latest book, Opinions, I was struck by the fact that her career serves as a kind of secret history of the seismic shifts in media in the 21st century.
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