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

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

Roxane Gay, thor of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017), talks wh the pater Jenny Saville, bt known for her 1994 Strategy triptych. * gay fat women *

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.

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.

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

Bt-sellg thor Roxane Gay gets ndid about bodi for BAZAAR's Women Who Dare seri. * gay fat women *

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. 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].