Roxane Gay on America's gerontocracy and public discourse in the social media age | 7.30

Описание: Roxane Gay is one of the most daring, trenchant, and funniest voices on the US cultural-political scene — a self-described bad feminist, who likes the colour pink, diamonds and Vogue magazine.

She more than charts the changing shape of our cultural lives, she draws the shape before we see it. She can write about Black Lives Matter, about cake, literary novels or soap operas and change the way you see all those things. She writes honestly and demands unflinching honesty from us.

In a wide-ranging discussion, she spoke to 7.30's Sarah Ferguson about US politics, the state of public discourse in the face of social media, cancel culture, and representation in the writer's room.

00:00 - Interview preview
00:27 - Interview begins
00:36 - Should Joe Biden step down as the Democratic candidate?
01:53 - How did America become a gerontocracy?
03:45 - Why a Conservative Supreme Court is concerning
06:50 - How marriage took Roxane Gay by surprise
07:55 - On cancel culture and redemption
09:47 - Tackling feminist myths
12:40 - Publishing on the internet before social media
14:24 - The state of public discourse
15:45 - Roxane Gay on her mother
16:48 - Representation in the media

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