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Contents:

• MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY RPONDS TO MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE
• HOW MIA FREEDMAN GOT HER ROXANE GAY TERVIEW SO WRONG
• FROM MIA FREEDMAN ON ROXANE GAY.
• ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF BAD FEMIST THOR
• STATEMENT REGARDG MAMAMIA'S PODST TERVIEW WH ROXANE GAY.
• ROXANE GAY WAS BODY-SHAMED BY MAMAMIA PODST HOST
• FEMIST ROXANE GAY DISCS THAT MAMAMIA ARTICLE LLG 'WEIRD AND UNFORTABLE... AND I THK JT PETTY' - AS FOUNR MIA FREEDMAN SAYS SHE'S 'MORTIFIED, HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED'
• 'CEL AND HUIATG': FEMIST THOR ROXANE GAY SLAMS 'WOMEN'S WEBSE' MAMAMIA FOR ARTICLE THAT LLED HER 'SUPER MORBIDLY OBE' - AS THEY ISSUE GROVELLG APOLOGY ADMTG THEY 'MISSED THE MARK'
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY HS BACK AT WEBSE FOR S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY

The Atralian webse Mamamia has apologised to the US thor Roxane Gay after publishg a podst terview wh text that asked whether she would “f to the office lift”, the award-wng thor of Bad Femist, said she was “appalled by Mamamia” after the terview she gave to the se’s -founr and creative director, Mia Freedman, while promotg her new book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Mamamia said later was “eply apologetic that this stance we’ve missed the mark ntributg to this discsn” Monday a scriptn posted to Mamamia’s No Filter podst disclosed an extensive list of preparatns the webse claimed to have ma to acmodate Gay durg an terview May.

“A lot of planng has to go to a vis om bt-sellg thor … Roxane Gay, ” read the scriptn on the podst episo. ”On Twter, Gay lled the experience “a sh show”. ”In a now-leted article which was published on Monday, a ched versn of which is still available, Freedman said the requts had been sent to her by Gay’s publisher, tailed “more than a dozen exchang”.

“You see, Roxane Gay is … I’m searchg for the right word to e here. In no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah. The apology said that the “many requts” ma by Gay’s publisher “were asked good fah by her publishg team to make Roxane feel as fortable as possible and we willgly answered all qutns and plied wh all requts.

ROXANE GAY RPONDS TO MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

”Durg the terview Gay spoke about how the world was not built to acmodate people like her. ”In tweets om May, Gay plaed of terviewers who told her they did “special thgs” to acmodate her weight. — roxane gay (@rgay) May 25, 2017..

HOW MIA FREEDMAN GOT HER ROXANE GAY TERVIEW SO WRONG

— roxane gay (@rgay) May 25, 2017.

Gay has been outspoken over sensive qutng om terviewers the past. ” In an terview wh Vice, she scribed terviews for Hunger as “more awkward than any terviews I’ve done before” her terview wh Freedman, Gay said she equently enuntered sensive qutns.

”She further told Gay she was “grateful” to be ma aware of her requirements. ”Gay replied that was “very strsful” but that people sometim “go to the other extreme and assume that you’re pable of basic thgs, and basic movement, and that you need to be ddled”. ”Gay has been ntacted for ment.

FROM MIA FREEDMAN ON ROXANE GAY.

— roxane gay (@rgay) June 13, 2017. Roxane Gay, the thor of several crilly acclaimed books cludg Bad Femist, Difficult Women and the jt-released Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, endured what she’s appropriately scribed as “cel and huiatg” treatment at the hands of Atralia’s self-scribed “largt pennt women’s webse. ”Anyone who follows the femist thor on Twter knows that Gay has been makg the terview rounds ahead of Hunger’s but, a book that tails Gay’s experience “learng how to feed your hunger while takg re of yourself.

”Atralian se Mamamia was afford the opportuny to speak wh her back May, and as an “appalled” Gay said, the experience has been “a sh show. ”In an attempt to troduce the podst terview wh Gay, Mamamia appears to have disclosed a list of the thor’s personal requts, breachg nfintialy.

A scriptn featured on the se’s No Filter podst on Monday (and ptured screenshots sce was leted) disclosed a lany of preparatns the webse unrwent orr to terview Gay.

ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF BAD FEMIST THOR

”“You see, Roxane Gay is... — roxane gay (@rgay) June 13, 2017Many, many of Gay’s rears have poted out Mamamia’s treatment of Gay pletely miss the pot of Hunger self. In an terview wh Trevor Noah, Gay explaed the motivatns for wrg the book.

”Mamamia has sce apologized, releasg a statement that reads part:In no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah.

It's been a week of antic mea culpa-g once aga for Mia Freedman, after a Mamamia podst wh celebrated US thor Roxane Gay went horribly wrong. It's a book which Gay lays bare her stggle wh life as a fat woman – who is also black, and queer – a world that spis all of the above.

STATEMENT REGARDG MAMAMIA'S PODST TERVIEW WH ROXANE GAY.

Woven to the story, along wh her famoly sharp social mentary, is her ongog stggle wh trma after havg been gang-raped as a child, explorg the part that event and s aftermath played shapg her plex relatnship wh her Tuday, the day before her book was released the US, Gay got wd of Freedman's troductn to the the podst which she scribed Gay as "super-morbidly obe" and ma a seri of sensatnal claims about the "planng" that went to acmodatg the wrer ("Will she f to the office lift? An acpanyg article which was leted om the Mamamia webse after tense social media backlash, had the tle "Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay", and ma Gay's refal to be pictured s ma foc, as well as revealg alleged private rrponnce wh Gay's publicist that the wrer has sce nied took place, sistg she only requted "a sturdy chair".

ROXANE GAY WAS BODY-SHAMED BY MAMAMIA PODST HOST

Mamamia founr and publisher Mia Steven SiewertAs outrage got the topic trendg on Twter, Gay scribed Mamamia as "a sh show" and her treatment by Freedman as "cel and huiatg" followg day, Hunger was released amid global headl about the cint wh Mamamia, cludg om The New York Tim, Washgton Post and The Guardian, as well as equivalent women's webs the US.

FEMIST ROXANE GAY DISCS THAT MAMAMIA ARTICLE LLG 'WEIRD AND UNFORTABLE... AND I THK JT PETTY' - AS FOUNR MIA FREEDMAN SAYS SHE'S 'MORTIFIED, HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED'

Gay tweeted: "Today was supposed to be about my new book. "To unrstand exactly where and how badly Freedman went wrong, 's necsary to have a solid grasp of ntemporary tersectnal femism and Roxane Gay's posn wh the movement, as a sort of popular high prits and no-BS-takg tth-talker.

So part of an tersectnal approach is elevatg the voic and experienc of women who are not whe, straight, able-bodied and wealthy, as is treatg stggl other than those relatg to genr as an sential part of the femist Roxane GayCred: Jay GrabiecMamamia, synonymo wh Freedman – s founr and publisher – lls self the "largt pennt women's webse Atralia", and says on s webse that is "utterly mted to makg a difference to women's liv". "Privileged people like Freedman nsistently – pathologilly – force non-normative bodi and inti to feel like a cursy or imposn, " Marsn cint "shows jt how far [Freedman] is om seeg fat people as worthy of humany and rpect and not jt an nvenient vehicle for a th woman's realisatn, " Melbourne-based cric Brodie Lanster wrote for News 's an approach that nnot bsh up agast an tellectual force like Roxane Gay whout a mimum of tensn, and the risk of flat-out cmblg. At one pot the podst, Freedman tells Gay she's sred of offendg her when the thor brgs up the fact that, y, 's awkward to talk about the ntent of her book wh terviewers who aren't ed to talkg to fat people about their bodi a way that manag to be both ank and Freedman went on to spectacularly fail this regard, spe havg read and loved Gay's book and spoken to her about for an hour is ttament to how eply entrenched fat-phobia remas, even among those who nsir themselv enlightened.

'CEL AND HUIATG': FEMIST THOR ROXANE GAY SLAMS 'WOMEN'S WEBSE' MAMAMIA FOR ARTICLE THAT LLED HER 'SUPER MORBIDLY OBE' - AS THEY ISSUE GROVELLG APOLOGY ADMTG THEY 'MISSED THE MARK'

Instead of landg her goal – a selfie and a nod om the ultimate Bad Femist Roxane Gay – Freedman got an stant stati reputatn for beg an actually-bad, fake femist. I should never have been so valier revealg tails about my terview wh Roxane Gay that should have remaed private. I am beyond mortified, horrified and ashamed that I uld have, any way ntributed to Roxane Gay feelg anythg other than fierce, brilliant and betiful.

Women's news webse Mamamia, and s founr Mia Freedman, have apologised after beg slammed for their "cel and huiatg" treatment of femist thor Roxane, the thor of 2014's Bad Femist, was Atralia last month for the Sydney Wrer's Ftival and several events promotg her new memoir Hunger, which discs the challeng of negotiatg the world as, her words, "a woman of size" the time she did an terview wh Freedman for Mamamia, which was published as a podst on Sunday wh a ptn — which has sce been eded — cludg sensive tails about the planng that went to Gay's terview. (Facebook: Mia Freedman)"Roxane Gay is … I'm searchg for the right word to e here. "'She is beg rightly exriated'But Mamamia has received signifint blowback om Gay herself and media mentators, cludg former Mamamia employe, for both the wordg ed and for revealg nfintial behd-the-scen tails of the slammed Mamamia on Twter, scribg the cint as "cel and huiatg".

"Gay also addrsed the cint a live Facebook terview wh the Wall Street Journal overnight and nied such specific requts had been ma. "It was never our tentn to huiate or offend her — Roxanne Gay is a femist thor and a cric and profsor and we eply admire and rpect her and we're very sorry, " Bowley said. "I should never have been so valier revealg tails about my terview wh Roxane Gay that should have remaed private, " she wrote.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY HS BACK AT WEBSE FOR S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

"Gay's memoir explor her relatnship wh her body om childhood — at the age of 12 she was raped by a group of boys, which led her to liberately ga weight as a pg mechanism. To Roxane Gay and to any other pl-size woman, or any woman, who stggl wh her body image.

UPDATE: You n read Mia Freedman’s personal msage to Roxane Gay, here. At Mamamia, we are huge Roxane Gay fans and supporters, so was an honour to wele the bt-sellg thor and profsor to our offic last month to rerd a podst books and works are greatly admired, and as you’d image there was much excement that she was g to the office.