Roxane Gay on how our culture hat fat people: will not make “a space for you to f” - Vox

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• ROXANE GAY OPENS UP ABOUT LIVG ‘IN THIS WORLD IN A FAT BODY’ ON 'DAILY SHOW'
• ROXANE GAY ON HOW OUR CULTURE HAT FAT PEOPLE: WILL NOT MAKE “A SPACE FOR YOU TO F”
• THE DAILY SOCIAL DISTANCG SHOW/ROXANE GAY
• THE DAILY SHOW - ROXANE GAY SYNOPSIS AND SCHLE

ROXANE GAY OPENS UP ABOUT LIVG ‘IN THIS WORLD IN A FAT BODY’ ON 'DAILY SHOW'

The Daily Show wh Trevor NoahApril 8, 2020 - Roxane GaySeason 25 E 86 • 04/08/2020Black Amerins get h harst by COVID-19, Dulce Sloan roasts the backgrounds of news anchor footage, and Roxane Gay discs her effort to help durg the panmic crisis. 04/09/2020Full Ep25:39Sign In to WatchS25 • E86The Daily Show wh Trevor NoahApril 8, 2020 - Roxane GayBlack Amerins get h harst by COVID-19, Dulce Sloan roasts the backgrounds of news anchor footage, and Roxane Gay discs her effort to help durg the panmic crisis. “The story of my body is not a story of triumph, ” Roxane Gay wr her new memoir, Hunger, which publish June 13.

” Instead, Gay ― the thor of Difficult Women, Bad Femist and An Untamed State ― explor her relatnship to her body before and after the sexual vlence that would rattle her youth.

ROXANE GAY ON HOW OUR CULTURE HAT FAT PEOPLE: WILL NOT MAKE “A SPACE FOR YOU TO F”

Gay discsed her new book Monday on “The Daily Show Wh Trevor Noah. ” “As a edian, I’ve ma a lot of fat jok, ” Noah said his nversatn wh Gay.

So he was tent on listeng to what Gay had to say about her experienc rather than ntug to equate fatns wh farce. Gay explaed that she often feels unfortable on airplan, at movie theaters and even at her own book signgs, where rears and fans have offered her unsoliced weight-loss advice.

“At the grocery store, people make mentary about what they see your rt, ” Gay said. ” Gay also shared a story om her childhood, when she was gang raped at the age of 12, before she was old enough to unrstand what happened to her.

THE DAILY SOCIAL DISTANCG SHOW/ROXANE GAY

“It was so unexpected, ” Gay said. ” This feelg urs throughout the book, which is subtled A Memoir of (My) “The Daily Show, ” scribg her motivatns for wrg the book, Gay said, “I wanted to tell the story of my body, bee when you’re fat the world, people have assumptns. Origal Bad Femist Roxane Gay has not been havg an easy book tour, but you wouldn’t know by the terview she did wh Trevor Noah on The Daily Show on Monday night.

THE DAILY SHOW - ROXANE GAY SYNOPSIS AND SCHLE

Gay’s new book is lled Hunger, and ’s about her experience navigatg the world as a fat person. Instead, Gay’s book is about how she rpond to a horrific childhood trma — she was gang-raped at age 12 — by beg fat. Hunger chronicl the way Gay’s world has shnk sce she beme a fat person.

The palpable disda wh which our culture treats fat people has extend even to Gay’s book tour. On Sunday, a podst that terviewed her blurbed the episo by discsg the terviewer’s fears over whether or not Gay would f to the office elevator.

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