Governor Mike Pence signed a bill into law that would allow business owners to refuse service to customers they disapprove of. Like the LGBT community

I used to think everything had to be perfect for love – including me. Now I’m learning to surrender to its possibilities

Roxane Gay: Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and love how nothing makes sense

Roxane Gay: When our responses are limited to ‘you are either with us or against us’, those that need to mourn and be sympathetic to complexities are cast as villians

Roxane Gay: From athletes in elevators and Hollywood executives in emails to ‘alleged’ sexual predators and, yes, even the fallen young men in the streets, the luxury of golden silence is gone

Roxane Gay: Protesting the death of Michael Brown is not a political act, no matter what the pundits say. These are five men who don’t want to die for being black. This is personal

Roxane Gay: We shouldn’t need so many women to tell such similar stories. We shouldn’t be filled with so much doubt. One accuser should be more than enough

Roxane Gay: The ‘comedian’ couldn’t keep his desire or entitlement to himself while ESPN anchor Cari Champion did her job. He just had to make sure we all knew about it

Roxane Gay: There’s nothing wrong with famous women (or men) claiming the cause. But the fame-inist brand ambassadors are a gateway to feminism, not the movement itself

Roxane Gay: There will always be another leak, because there is always curiosity in the bodies of nude celebrity women. There is always danger in being an Other

Roxane Gay: Reeva Steenkamp is dead, a mythical black intruder evoked, and the defence is frankly implausible. Just what does a man have to do to be found guilty of murdering a woman?

Roxane Gay: Armed with cameras and no filter, we bear witness to brutality, retweet it, and move on. But one click makes you part of the story

Roxane Gay: Obama called for peace and calm. But we are beyond peace and calm. Silence is not an option

Roxane Gay: Women have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists