

SET TIMES
6:30PM Venue opens
7:30PM Roxane Gay
9:00PM Event concludes
Set times are approximate and subject to change.
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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 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.
Roxane Gay: In Conversation took place on Friday 12 June 2026, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm (Sydney time).
Roxane Gay: In Conversation was at City Recital Hall, 2 Angel Pl, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.
Roxane Gay: In Conversation started at 7:30 pm and finished at 9:00 pm, Sydney time.
2 Angel Pl, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
City Recital Hall is in City, Sydney.
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