Part Two focuses on gender equality and sexual violence. In this section of the book, Gay shares stories from her first year teaching and finding community through competitive Scrabble. For example, she is a tenure-track professor living in a small town. She also acknowledges that she is privileged in many ways. In part one, Gay writes about her identity as a black woman. Instead of being essentialist (believing there is one right way), we should support inclusive feminism which acknowledges that everyone has different needs and experiences as well as different ways of expressing themselves, both philosophically and physically. But Roxane believes that women are imperfect and cannot be perfect all the time, so they shouldn’t have to try to be perfect in order to be good feminists. She doesn’t always agree with them or follow their rules.
Roxane Gay is a feminist, but she’s not like the other feminists.
