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.

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. 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.

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

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].

GAY: I’m wrg two books.

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

GAY: Hearg about the ndns unr which some people create art is tly eye openg. GAY: How do you feel when your work is censored? GAY: Absolutely.

GAY: That’s a good qutn. GAY: The equatn is probably different for art than is for lerature. GAY: They don’t thk that there is somethg to talk about beyond the inty of the artist.

ROXANE GAY WANTS YOU TO SEE FAT PEOPLE AS HUMANS

GAY: Do you feel like you are pigeonholed? Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, HarperColls, 2017, 320 pag.

GAY: I get all kds of feedback. GAY: I mean, some of that nfince is “fake ’til you make .

GAY: I do read most reviews reputable publitns, but I’m not necsarily gog to read someone’s blog post about my books.

FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS

GAY: That mak sense. GAY: Oh!