About this episode

Roxane Gay discusses safety, gun ownership, and the experiences of Black women in America.

Hey BA fam! We’re bringing back one of our most powerful conversations with writer, editor, and cultural critic Roxane Gay — just in time as we come out of Pride Month and Juneteenth, and as I celebrate finishing the 12th and final chapter of my manuscript ahead of my July 1 deadline. Even though I had to give up my spot at Roxane’s Black writers convention last weekend because of surgery, I’m grateful we get to sit with her voice again in this feed. Brown Ambition will be back with brand‑new episodes starting July 8, and I can’t wait to update you more on this book journey and what’s next for BA. In this encore episode, Tiffany and I sit down with Roxane to talk about what it means to stand your ground as “a Black, queer, fat woman” in America — her words — and how she thinks about safety, gun ownership, and the reality that no one is coming to save us but us. Roxane walks us through years of threats against her, the decision to buy a gun during the pandemic, and what she learned when she realized Black women are the fastest‑growing group of gun owners in the U.S. We also get into the heart of Brown Ambition: Black…

People in this episode

Host: Tiffany

Guest: Roxane Gay

Topics covered

• safety
• gun ownership
• Black women
• entrepreneurship
• generational wealth
• cultural criticism

Keywords

• Roxane Gay
• gun ownership
• Black women
• entrepreneurship
• generational wealth
• cultural criticism
• safety

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Organizations: Brown Ambition, iHeartPodcasts

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