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• 7 POWERFUL QUOT OM ROXANE GAY’S ‘HUNGER’ A BOOK THAT NONTS HOW WE JUDGE BODI ROXANE GAY. (ILLTRATNS BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY) CAROL SHIH JULY 7, 2017 JULY 7, 2017 SMART AND FIERCE WHEN TO ISSU OF RACE AND GENR, “BAD FEMIST” THOR ROXANE GAY IS BACK WH ANOTHER H. THIS TIME, HER NEWT RELEASE, "HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY,” SHOWS A RAW SI OF HER. IT’S TENAC AND VULNERABLE. IT’S ALSO THE HARST BOOK SHE’S EVER WRTEN. GAY TELLS ABOUT HER RELATNSHIP TO HER BODY, AND HOW THE NVERSATN AROUND PEOPLE WH HER BODY TYPE NEEDS TO CHANGE. HERE ARE SEVEN MOVG EXCERPTS OM HER BOOK. ON A WOMAN’S PLACE “THIS IS WHAT MOST GIRLS ARE TGHT — THAT WE SHOULD BE SLENR AND SMALL. WE SHOULD NOT TAKE UP SPACE. WE SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD, AND IF WE ARE SEEN, WE SHOULD BE PLEASG TO MEN, ACCEPTABLE TO SOCIETY. AND MOST WOMEN KNOW THIS, THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DISAPPEAR, BUT ’S SOMETHG THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID, LOUDLY, OVER AND OVER AGA, SO THAT WE N RIST SURRENRG TO WHAT IS EXPECTED OF .” (P. 13) ON HER TRMA “WH EACH PASSG YEAR, I BEME MORE AND MORE DISGTED WH MYSELF. I WAS NVCED THAT HAVG BEEN RAPED WAS MY FLT, THAT I SERVED , THAT WHAT HAPPENED THE WOODS WAS ALL A PATHETIC GIRL LIKE ME ULD EXPECT. I SLEPT LS AND LS BEE WHEN I CLOSED MY EY, I ULD FEEL BOY BODI CSHG MY GIRL BODY, HURTG MY GIRL BODY.” (P. 82) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON HOW SHE PED “I WAS SWALLOWG MY SECRETS AND MAKG MY BODY EXPAND AND EXPLO. I FOUND WAYS TO HI PLA SIGHT, TO KEEP FEEDG A HUNGER THAT ULD NEVER BE SATISFIED — THE HUNGER TO STOP HURTG. I MA MYSELF BIGGER. I MA MYSELF SAFER.” (P. 61) ON HOW SHE FEELS “WHEN YOU’RE OVERWEIGHT, YOUR BODY BE A MATTER OF PUBLIC RERD MANY RPECTS. YOUR BODY IS NSTANTLY AND PROMENTLY ON DISPLAY. PEOPLE PROJECT ASSUMED NARRATIV ONTO YOUR BODY AND ARE NOT AT ALL TERTED THE TTH OF YOUR BODY, WHATEVER THAT TTH MIGHT BE. FAT, MUCH LIKE SK LOR, IS SOMETHG YOU NNOT HI, NO MATTER HOW DARK THE CLOTHG YOU WEAR, OR HOW DILIGENTLY YOU AVOID HORIZONTAL STRIP.” (P. 120) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON GROWG UP “IN OUR CULTURE, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT CHANGE AND GROWG UP, BUT MAN, WE DON’T TALK NEARLY ENOUGH ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IS. IT IS DIFFICULT.” (P. 244) ON ACCEPTANCE “LIVG MY BODY HAS EXPAND MY EMPATHY FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND THE TTHS OF THEIR BODI. CERTALY, HAS SHOWN ME THE IMPORTANCE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE (NOT MERELY TOLERANCE) FOR DIVERSE BODY TYP.” (P. 297) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON HER BODY “THIS BODY IS RILIENT. IT N ENDURE ALL KDS OF THGS. MY BODY OFFERS ME THE POWER OF PRENCE. MY BODY IS POWERFUL.” (P. 296) CAROL SHIH REMEND BY THE LILY BOOKS JEN GOTCH STARTED A PANY THAT ENURAG JOY. HERE’S THE SMALL WAY SHE’S FDG HER OWN A PANMIC.
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An Untamed State by Roxane Gay.

7 POWERFUL QUOT OM ROXANE GAY’S ‘HUNGER’ A BOOK THAT NONTS HOW WE JUDGE BODI ROXANE GAY. (ILLTRATNS BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY) CAROL SHIH JULY 7, 2017 JULY 7, 2017 SMART AND FIERCE WHEN TO ISSU OF RACE AND GENR, “BAD FEMIST” THOR ROXANE GAY IS BACK WH ANOTHER H. THIS TIME, HER NEWT RELEASE, "HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY,” SHOWS A RAW SI OF HER. IT’S TENAC AND VULNERABLE. IT’S ALSO THE HARST BOOK SHE’S EVER WRTEN. GAY TELLS ABOUT HER RELATNSHIP TO HER BODY, AND HOW THE NVERSATN AROUND PEOPLE WH HER BODY TYPE NEEDS TO CHANGE. HERE ARE SEVEN MOVG EXCERPTS OM HER BOOK. ON A WOMAN’S PLACE “THIS IS WHAT MOST GIRLS ARE TGHT — THAT WE SHOULD BE SLENR AND SMALL. WE SHOULD NOT TAKE UP SPACE. WE SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD, AND IF WE ARE SEEN, WE SHOULD BE PLEASG TO MEN, ACCEPTABLE TO SOCIETY. AND MOST WOMEN KNOW THIS, THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DISAPPEAR, BUT ’S SOMETHG THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID, LOUDLY, OVER AND OVER AGA, SO THAT WE N RIST SURRENRG TO WHAT IS EXPECTED OF .” (P. 13) ON HER TRMA “WH EACH PASSG YEAR, I BEME MORE AND MORE DISGTED WH MYSELF. I WAS NVCED THAT HAVG BEEN RAPED WAS MY FLT, THAT I SERVED , THAT WHAT HAPPENED THE WOODS WAS ALL A PATHETIC GIRL LIKE ME ULD EXPECT. I SLEPT LS AND LS BEE WHEN I CLOSED MY EY, I ULD FEEL BOY BODI CSHG MY GIRL BODY, HURTG MY GIRL BODY.” (P. 82) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON HOW SHE PED “I WAS SWALLOWG MY SECRETS AND MAKG MY BODY EXPAND AND EXPLO. I FOUND WAYS TO HI PLA SIGHT, TO KEEP FEEDG A HUNGER THAT ULD NEVER BE SATISFIED — THE HUNGER TO STOP HURTG. I MA MYSELF BIGGER. I MA MYSELF SAFER.” (P. 61) ON HOW SHE FEELS “WHEN YOU’RE OVERWEIGHT, YOUR BODY BE A MATTER OF PUBLIC RERD MANY RPECTS. YOUR BODY IS NSTANTLY AND PROMENTLY ON DISPLAY. PEOPLE PROJECT ASSUMED NARRATIV ONTO YOUR BODY AND ARE NOT AT ALL TERTED THE TTH OF YOUR BODY, WHATEVER THAT TTH MIGHT BE. FAT, MUCH LIKE SK LOR, IS SOMETHG YOU NNOT HI, NO MATTER HOW DARK THE CLOTHG YOU WEAR, OR HOW DILIGENTLY YOU AVOID HORIZONTAL STRIP.” (P. 120) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON GROWG UP “IN OUR CULTURE, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT CHANGE AND GROWG UP, BUT MAN, WE DON’T TALK NEARLY ENOUGH ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IS. IT IS DIFFICULT.” (P. 244) ON ACCEPTANCE “LIVG MY BODY HAS EXPAND MY EMPATHY FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND THE TTHS OF THEIR BODI. CERTALY, HAS SHOWN ME THE IMPORTANCE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE (NOT MERELY TOLERANCE) FOR DIVERSE BODY TYP.” (P. 297) ILLTRATN BY EVE ARCHER FOR THE LILY. ON HER BODY “THIS BODY IS RILIENT. IT N ENDURE ALL KDS OF THGS. MY BODY OFFERS ME THE POWER OF PRENCE. MY BODY IS POWERFUL.” (P. 296) CAROL SHIH REMEND BY THE LILY BOOKS JEN GOTCH STARTED A PANY THAT ENURAG JOY. HERE’S THE SMALL WAY SHE’S FDG HER OWN A PANMIC.

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Smart and fierce when to issu of race and genr, “Bad Femist” thor Roxane Gay is back wh another h. Gay tells about her relatnship to her body, and how the nversatn around people wh her body type needs to change. “Every body has a story and a history, ” Roxane Gay wr her new book.

” What follows are 300 pag of pa, honty, trma, joy, lonels, wisdom, spair and power that chronicle Gay’s life. Yet sayg that Gay’s memoir, Hunger, reunts her life is an oversimplifitn of the text. It’s ultimately a challengg book to scribe, and Hunger’s through le is bt explaed by Gay’s wrg self: “When I was twelve years old I was raped and then I ate and ate and ate to build my body to a fortrs.

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Also the thor of Bad Femist and Difficult Women, Gay nsistently tackl volatile subjects her wrg. Hunger Quot by Roxane Gay. Roxane Gay is my hero.

A champn of femism, tersectnaly, equaly, and more, Roxane Gay is a femist force. From femism to sexual vlence to issu of race, Gay drops glor tth bombs nearly every sentence.

12 ROXANE GAY QUOT TO POWER YOUR FEMISM

More importantly, though, she mak her rears feel like they have a voice and the power to make signifint change this of the most prolific wrers alive today, Gay has some piece of wrg htg the web almost daily. Whether you're a long-time fan of Gay's, or you've somehow managed to miss her shg star, the 12 quot by her will power your femism and spire you to read (or re-read) everythg she's wrten. Roxanne Gay.

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an Amerin wrer, profsor, edor, and mentator. On wrg and personal revelatns “Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affectn’” The Guardian (2018 Jun 2).

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On how Gay’s e of a fairy-tale format her fictnal works do not nstute an appeal to universaly “Roxane Gay: ‘Public disurse rarely allows for nuance.

An excerpt om one of her says as quoted “Roxane Gay: ‘Public disurse rarely allows for nuance. An excerpt om Hunger which Gay scrib herself after beg gang-raped durg her teenage years as quoted “Roxane Gay: ‘Public disurse rarely allows for nuance.

On how she viewed her body after her sexual asslt “Be Bigger, Fight Harr: Roxane Gay On A Lifetime Of 'Hunger'” NPR (2017 June 19). On the need to bee “smaller” “Be Bigger, Fight Harr: Roxane Gay On A Lifetime Of 'Hunger'” NPR (2017 June 19). On why she rejects inty polics “Roxane Gay: ‘Public disurse rarely allows for nuance.

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On why she wants to make opportuni for others “Roxane Gay: ‘Public disurse rarely allows for nuance. On how women might unrstand and embrace femism “Roxane Gay's Bad Femist Is a ‘Manual on How to Be a Human’" Time Magaze (2014 Aug 5).

Roxane Gay is a role mol, yet maybe not the type of role mol you might origally seek out for yourself. Bee Roxane Gay don’t have the patience to al wh your sh*t. She's que the oppose, Gay more like the bt iend you nfi when you need advice and love but don’t want someone who is gog to beat around the bh when you need total honty.

ROXANE GAY IS THE FEMIST LEAR WE NEED RIGHT NOW

Wh works like Bad Femist, a llectn of says, and her but novel, An Untamed State, Gay is quickly makg a name for stead of patg herself to a small, neat box, her “Bad Femist” label says that she don’t have to be perfect to be someone who serv rpect and equaly, jt like all women bee she believ the equaly and rpect of ALL women, cludg herself, she don’t stand by idly when she’s fully aware of jtice gog on. I love the raw emotn Roxane Gay not only wr wh, but speaks wh.

She mak me feel like I don’t have to be a okie-cutter versn of a femist, that I n get angry and blunt and humoro wh havg someone like Gay to be a lear this new movement of femism, pecially now when we need most, is teach all of that we n lead by example, whout apology, and get sh*t, check out her webse for more on her and her work, and read below for some of our favore Roxane Gay you’re lookg for a ltle spiratn, we’ve got the bt quot to share and savor.

” — Roxane Gay“Abandon the cultural myth that all female iendships mt be bchy, toxic, or petive. ” — Roxane Gay“We don’t all have to believe the same femism.