A motley collection of articles and chronicles of an autobiographical, literary or political nature, Bad Feminist (2014) gives an insight into the questioning of identity of a young American woman born to Haitian immigrant parents. An academic, essayist and fiction writer, Roxane Gay discusses the difficulty of defining herself and, later, of taking a position as a woman of color in an America where this identity remains problematic. She questions the representations of women in contemporary fiction and analyses the place of people of color in television programs. She also examines, from a psychological and mythological point of view, the distress of the « green girls » who lend themselves to the game of reality TV. Far from any sectarianism, Roxane Gay relies on various references, some of them coming from icons of the feminist movement, to compose her own, imperfect but consciously embraced, version of feminism.