Roxane Gay on Beg a 'Fat' Woman - and Reachg 577 lbs: 'The Pa Can Be Unbearable'

Contents:

• I’M LOVE BUT HATERS SAY MY HBAND MT BE GAY OR HAVE A FAT FETISH
• I’M FAT AND GAY. HERE’S WHAT I’VE LEARNED.
• ROXANE GAY ON BEG A 'FAT' WOMAN - AND REACHG 577 LBS: 'THE PA CAN BE UNBEARABLE'
• ROXANE GAY WANTS YOU TO SEE FAT PEOPLE AS HUMANS
• FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS

I’M LOVE BUT HATERS SAY MY HBAND MT BE GAY OR HAVE A FAT FETISH

The burgeong body posivy activist ntued, “Or they try to crease his si of the equatn by sayg he mt be gay, or he fetish fat women. Roxane Gay.

Roxane Gay, a proment thor, has been nontg the pervasive bias agast fat women.

I’M FAT AND GAY. HERE’S WHAT I’VE LEARNED.

In her 2017 book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay relat stori about the ns she often enunters when seated next to strangers on a plane. While figur who are plump by today’s standards have featured promently classic patgs by Tian, Rubens, and others, the women are what Gay lls “Lane Bryant fat, ” a term she ed to refer to people who shop at the pl-size retailer that sells clothg generally up to size 28.

ROXANE GAY ON BEG A 'FAT' WOMAN - AND REACHG 577 LBS: 'THE PA CAN BE UNBEARABLE'

For Gay, the cutoff at that size speaks to the gree of fatns that society is willg to acmodate, and to the limed optns that people size 29 and up often have.

ROXANE GAY WANTS YOU TO SEE FAT PEOPLE AS HUMANS

Gay, who is based New York and Los Angel, chatted over Zoom wh Saville, who is based Oxford, on the subject of fatns and femism, as well as their shared mment to nurturg a younger generatn of women wrers and artists.

ROXANE GAY: I first saw your work at the Broad Mm. GAY: It mt take real urage to mol, bee so many people are gog to judge your body so many different ways.

GAY: I eded a llectn of says by myself and others lled Unly Bodi [for Gay Mag 2018].

FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS

GAY: I’m wrg two books.