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Lindy West covers many similar topics in Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hachette, $16). She speaks to her experience with misogyny, and racism, and body shaming and to her love of pop culture even when it may embody some or all of these problematic issues. She writes about competitive Scrabble tournaments, body image, rape culture, 50 Shades of Grey and seemingly everything in between. In her brutally honest and open essays, which vary in both subject and tone, Gay lays out her examples of feminism (albeit sometimes "bad feminism"). "When you can't find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example." So says Roxane Gay in her essay collection, Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, $15.99)-and Gay, along with fellow essayists Lindy West and Julia Serano, are excellent examples of writers exploring feminism and femininity in new and innovative ways.
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