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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.
• EIGHT POWERFUL QUOT OM HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY
• 33 POWERFUL ROXANE GAY QUOT TO REKDLE YOUR FEMIST SPIR
• BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'
• ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”
• THE BOLDNS OF ROXANE GAY’S HUNGER
• ROXANE GAY: HUNGER IS A STATE OF BEG
• ROXANE GAY QUOT
• REVIEWS OF HUNGER 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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33 POWERFUL ROXANE GAY QUOT TO REKDLE YOUR FEMIST SPIR

“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.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

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. Also the thor of Bad Femist and Difficult Women, Gay nsistently tackl volatile subjects her wrg. Whether she’s offerg up cricism or tenrns, snarks or heart-wrenchg scery, I n always unt on Roxane Gay for one thg: she’ll tell me the tth.

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ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”

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Roxane Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least. Gay trac her plited relatnship wh her weight back to beg a victim of sexual asslt as a child.

THE BOLDNS OF ROXANE GAY’S HUNGER

A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. The ntents Hunger are based on Gay’s personal experience wh her body. Gay is gnizant that her story is not as appealg as succs s of weight loss sce she is not yet place where she n celebrate her weight loss.

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ROXANE GAY: HUNGER IS A STATE OF BEG

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REVIEWS OF HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY

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