"It's more important to focus on the actual work of feminism in our everyday lives. Embrace this, she argues, and recognise in the digital era of democratised "isms" everything, including feminism itself, is deeper, richer and more complex for it. Set to visit Auckland for our annual writers' festival, Gay encourages us to recognise feminism is flawed and so are we. ![]() ![]() Hallelujah! A woman who writes humanly and engagingly about the trials and tribulations of feminism and even when she's taking down - politely - other feminist writers, she does so with nuance. "I feel like I am not as committed as I need to be, that I am not living up to feminist ideals because of who I am and how I choose to be." Gay even admitted she liked driving to work listening to "thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and often offend me to my core" earlier, she'd defended Robin Thicke's hit Blurred Lines. ![]() so I close my office door and lose it" pink is her favourite colour. She went on to describe these: the desire to be independent but be taken care of and have someone to come home to she wants to have babies and is willing to make compromises - "not sacrifices" - to have one and that, despite holding lofty positions at work, she sometimes feels an overwhelming need to cry ".
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