Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”
I talk with one of my favorite cultural critics, Roxane Gay, about her long-form essay on Black gun ownership. We discuss how the gun industry frames women as victims in waiting and the importance of dismantling the trope of the “good man with a gun." We also delve into the societal cost of our resisting, rejecting,…
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