My daughter, Roxane she shall make you good wife.
More like, uh, Virginia Woolf or Roxane Gay or Sylvia Plath.
But Roxane too, like Olympias played by stern rules,
supported by several generals.
I have been exploring these issues with my collaborators Roxane Cohen Silver and E. Alison Holman.
Who Roxane really was I doubt that any of us ever saw
further than the pools of those black eyes.
Although devoted to Roxane… Alexander's visits to her tent diminished… as a year,
then two, went by without a successor.
Five years… No, it was six years after that… Cassander finally achieved the complete
destruction of Alexander's bloodline when he poisoned Roxane.
Although devoted to Roxane… Alexander's visits to her tent diminished… as a year,
then two, went by without a successor… wounding Alexander's great pride.
Edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, Not that Bad follows the success
of her previous two works Bad Feminist and Hunger, that have established Gay as a leading cultural critic.
No, it was six years after that Cassander finally achieved the complete
destruction of Alexander's bloodline when he poisoned Roxane and Alexander's 13-year-old son the true heir to the empire.
Five years… No, it was six years after that… Cassander finally achieved the complete
destruction of Alexander's bloodline… when he poisoned Roxane…
and Alexander's 13-year-old son… the true heir to the empire.
In the face of criticisms on the limitations of the Bechdel-Wallace test,
writer Roxane Gay proposed a six-part test:
Is there a central female character, with supporting female characters, who doesn't compromise herself for love or live extravagantly for no explained reason?