Join prolific American author and cultural critic Roxane Gay at City Recital Hall for an exclusive conversation with Whadjuk Noongar journalist, author and broadcaster Narelda Jacobs OAM, as part of Vivid Minds’ Creative Trailblazers series.

Since the release of Bad Feminist (2014), her culture-shifting New York Times best-selling essay collection, Gay has been a guiding voice of reason, clarity and empathy in American culture. Her next book, How to Be Heard (2017), is a guide for aspiring writers, but the title could double as a mantra for the through-line of her work.

A vital voice on politics, feminism, race, power and pop culture, Gay’s writing spans unflinching honest memoir Hunger (2017), best-selling short-story collection Difficult Women (2017), Marvel comic book series World of Wakanda, and incisive cultural criticism as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (anthologised in 2023’s Opinions), among much more.

Together with Jacobs, Gay will carefully dissect our current era of conflict and a dissolving centre, in a timely, expansive conversation that builds upon her body of work.

This event is presented in partnership with City Recital Hall.