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Roxane Gay and Erica Jong discuss feminism and it instantly gets awkward

Written By Unknown on Monday, September 7, 2015 | 12:44 PM

A discussion at the Decatur Book Festival in Georgia was meant to celebrate feminism, but ended up illustrating its generational, cultural, and racial divides

“Before we get started,” Roxane Gay told the packed auditorium of the keynote she was giving at Emory Univeristy alongside Erica Jong to kick off the Decatur book festival in Georgia, Friday night, “something important has to happen. Because today is a very special day. Can everybody hear?”

Then, over the first notes of a BeyoncĂ© song she played from her phone, Gay playfully asked, “Whose birthday is it?”

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