On a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host asked author Roxane Gay: “How do you define being a bad feminist, and do you still consider yourself one?” It had been just over a decade since Gay wrote the blockbuster essay collection, Bad Feminist, in which she explored gender equity while simultaneously aligning herself with things that could seem at odds with it: faking orgasms, listening to hip-hop, and not caring to learn how to fix problems in her car. “Yes, always,” she says, answering Colbert’s question. “I’m still a bad feminist, but I’m hoping I’m a better bad feminist…