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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere.
I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was reliable. 'New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about sustenance and bodies, using her control emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health.
As a woman who describes her have body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between long for and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her adolescent life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of th
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay review – ‘an unflinching portrayal of sexual and spiritual violence’
My introduction to Haiti came in the form of a gal. It was at the height of the Haitian refugee exodus of the early s, when tens of thousands fled blistering poverty and political tyranny for the relative safety of the US. We waited to greet her, my father and I, at Houston airport – her plane ticket having been arranged by the civil rights organisation where my father worked at the time. She was one of the last off the plane, a thin woman in her 20s, dark-skinned like me, polite and terrified. My father was highly sensitive to the realities of a woman travelling to a foreign country alone. He hoped my presence would place her at ease – that if she saw him as a father, she would dread him less, could safely assume that a man with his eight-year-old child in the ride wouldn’t pull over in a dark alley and take advantage.
Over the span of a year, I made half a dozen of these trips with my father, picking up desperate women at airports and bus stations, some with children in tow, but m
The Portable Feminist Reader
Out March 25
From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in verb, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
With One “N”
Roxane Gay is The Recent York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.
Roxane Gay is best known for her troubled, headstrong, and unconventional women in Bad Feminist and most recently, Difficult Women. Her memoir, Hunger, was recently listed among Washington Post‘s 5 Best Memoirs of In aBy the Book feature in TheNew York Times, Gay shared her latest book picks. Here are just a few of her recommendations.
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
“She is one of my favorite writers, and I loved the ambitious, almost too ambitious, narrative structure of the novel and these small worlds she kept building and tearing down to move the story forward.” – Roxane Gay
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children adj. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows between them.
I Am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes
“One of my favorite books rare people have heard of is &#;I Am a Magical