Roxane Gay

Person · Open Library

Born

1974

Works

42

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1939-04-02

Active to

1984-04-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

97

Total plays

663

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,795x

2. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,659x

3. The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

   · 2020 · cited 5,341x

4. Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

   · 2020 · cited 4,322x

5. Distantly related sequences in the alpha‐ and beta‐subunits of ATP synthase, myosin, kinases and other ATP‐requiring enzymes and a common nucleotide binding fold.

   · 1982 · cited 4,307x

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Quotes

• “In fact, it’s the opposite…As a black woman, as a black queer woman, specificity is incredibly important, because diverse experiences are rarely seen in literature.”
• “The moment I step outside the safety of my home, I hate how visible I am, how people treat me, how they stare and comment both loudly and under their breath … I do not know how to carry myself with confidence when I go out into the world. Any sense of self I have is often shattered within minutes, and then I am all insecurities and fears, wishing myself into a more socially acceptable form.”
• “There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent.”
• “I grew up in this world where fat phobia is pervasive…And I just thought, 'Well, boys don't like fat girls, so if I'm fat, they won't want me and they won't hurt me again.' But more than that, I really wanted to just be bigger so that I could fight harder.”
• “I would definitely like to tear down this wall I've built around myself, because I don't need it anymore. And I know that intellectually, and on good days, I know that emotionally. I don't want to be thin, I want to be smaller, because I just do. I think it makes so many things easier just on a day-to-day basis, and also I have no small amount of vanity, so I just want to be able to find cuter clothes. Sometimes it's really basic things that I would like for myself.”
• “It’s used like a weapon. What it means is, ‘I don’t want to think about your concerns. I don’t want to have to extend my empathy.’…We have to think with nuance, and unfortunately public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that has gotten us.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1974-10-15 ) October 15, 1974 (age 51) , Omaha, Nebraska , U.S.

Occupation

Professor, writer

Education

Yale University Norwich University ( BA ) University of Nebraska–Lincoln ( MA ) Michigan Technological University ( PhD )

Genres

Novel, short story, criticism

Spouse

Debbie Millman ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 ) ​

Relatives

Claudine Gay (cousin)

Fields

Communication studies

Thesis

Subverting the subject position: toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicators (2010)

Doctoral advisor

Ann Brady

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Gay

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Omaha

Occupation

literary critic

Educated at

Phillips Exeter Academy

Employer

Purdue University

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Field of work

literary criticism

Official website

www.roxanegay.com

Image

Roxane gay 9134940.JPG

Political ideology

fat acceptance movement

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