7/4/2023 0 Comments Bad feminist![]() “I am in a wonderful marriage,” Gay tells me. It is mid-morning in New York and Gay, 48, is drinking a takeaway cup of coffee in the eaves of the brownstone house she shares with her wife Debbie Millman. And, in many areas, such as reproductive freedom, we have lost ground, which is a bitter pill to swallow.” Most of the issues I wrote about are sadly just as relevant today. When I coined it, it was partly serious and partly tongue in cheek: if good feminism is the feminism that overlooks the intersections of identity that we all inhabit, then I’d rather be a bad feminist. So, nine years on, does the writer, editor, professor, podcaster, cultural critic, and Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, still consider herself a bad feminist? “I think I’m a better feminist now than I was,” says Gay when we meet on Zoom. ![]()
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