Roxane Gay, thor of the new memoir 'Hunger,' talks to Rollg Stone about how she navigated, procsed and rpond to trma.
Contents:
- INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
- 'I DIDN’T THK MARRIAGE WAS IN THE CARDS FOR ME': AUTHOR ROXANE GAY CELEBRAT FIRST ANNIVERSARY AFTER ELOPG DURG PANMIC
- ROXANE GAY: NEW MEMOIR IS ‘ABOUT MY BODY AND THE THGS THAT HAPPENED TO MY BODY’
INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
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Millman’s robt engagement wh the art world for nearly 30 years provis a strong foundatn for the llectn she now shar wh Gay. Comg om an amic background, Gay has emerged as a key cril cultural voice to a large public dience over the past . Although she grew up wh parents who llect, Gay has only recently directed her attentn towards an art llectn of her own.
Gay se her art llectn as a powerful tool that n transform the image of what an art llector looks like to a popular dience. Durg a nversatn this past March, Millman and Gay discsed their llectg origs, the artists they admire, and the roadblocks that n renr art llectg accsible for emergg llectors.
'I DIDN’T THK MARRIAGE WAS IN THE CARDS FOR ME': AUTHOR ROXANE GAY CELEBRAT FIRST ANNIVERSARY AFTER ELOPG DURG PANMIC
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Roxane Gay: My parents llect Haian art, so I knew about art llectg through them. Portra of Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay wh Jean-Michel Basquiat, For Leonardo, 1983. "It wasn’t how we planned but was perfect, " Gay said of their timate elopement last year.
In se you missed , Roxane Gay is a married woman, and as she shared on Instagram on Sunday, she’s been one for a whole year now. She too shared a lovg note about the uple’s anniversary and a photo of her their garn surround by huge balloons that spelled out “Happy Anniversary” bee Gay lov balloons. Gay did share last year that the uple eloped but would have a bigger ceremony the future.
“I am not super relig but Debbie is Jewish and so Gloria Steem is actually marryg next year, ” Gay said. It’s tertg to thk that Gay almost ignored Millman’s advanc after they met. You should go for , ’” Gay said.
ROXANE GAY: NEW MEMOIR IS ‘ABOUT MY BODY AND THE THGS THAT HAPPENED TO MY BODY’
Roxane Gay: New Memoir Is ‘About My Body and the Thgs That Happened to My Body’. I jt didn’t want to do , ” Roxane Gay tells Rollg Stone. Sce the release of her 2014 say llectn Bad Femist, Gay has gone on to bee one of the leadg voic the Amerin nversatn.
Wh all that gog on, Gay recently released Hunger, an unnventnal memoir that rejects the mon narrative of triumph to stead tell a story whout a straightforward endg. It is also, more importantly, a book about the body, specifilly Gay’s, which she scrib as, “wildly undiscipled, ” and about the ways which she navigated, procsed and rpond to trma. For Gay, trma manifted a liberate manipulatn and transformatn of her own body to a size she once believed would ter the lascivns of predatory young men.