The importance of talking about and unpacking the issue of race within white feminism was on full display in Atlanta on Friday evening, when best-selling feminist authors Erica Jong and Roxane Gay gave the keynote chat for the 10th annual AJC Decatur Book Festival. Gay delightfully kicked off the conversation with a nod to #BeyDay, and the authors' wide-ranging conversation covered feminism, writing, empathy, and even the presidential race. Best known for her 1973 debut novel Fear of Flying, Jong's writing was seminal to both second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution. Meanwhile, Bad Feminist author Gay has become one of today's leading writers, thinkers, and tweeters on 21st-century feminism, as well as racial identity, privilege, and culture. But when the talk circled around to intersectional feminism, a palpable tension emerged. During the Q&A, a woman asked Jong and Gay about the hashtag #feminismisforwhitewomen and how the feminist movement can improve racial inclusivity. Jong bristled at the suggestion that white feminists have overlooked women color, at one point categorizing the hashtag as a product of "historical ignorance."