And then I will find out what white writers are paid or what men are paid, and I’m like, “Wow.” I think it’s good advice for women. I will negotiate a contract of some kind. I love to think I’m a very good negotiator. If people don’t respond to my work the way I had hoped and I recognize that I have to sort of do better, I just allow myself to feel what I need to feel about it. I allow myself to feel what I need to feel when I’m rejected or when I don’t get an accolade that I very much want. I was a dishwasher in the high school dining hall. I thought that it would be great to help people. I wasn't allowed to watch medical dramas on television, but I would see glimpses and it seemed exotic and exciting. I wanted to be an emergency room physician. Glamour sat down with Roxane Gay over Zoom to ask her advice on-what else?-work, of course, but also her home office must-haves, her go-to gifts, and the best Instagram follows. The class is billed as a chance to help subscribers have hard conversations about social issues, own their own identities, and navigate writing about trauma. Last month MasterClass announced that she would teach a course on writing for social change.
Now Gay-who is also the author of such beloved best-sellers as Bad Feminist and her memoir, Hunger-is sharing her wisdom with a new audience.
