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Contents:

• MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY RPONDS TO MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY HS BACK AT WEBSE FOR S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE
• ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA WEBSE 'HUIAT' FEMIST THOR
• STATEMENT REGARDG MAMAMIA'S PODST TERVIEW WH ROXANE GAY.
• ROXANE GAY SLAMS MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE
• ROXANE GAY LLS OUT ATRALIAN ‘FEMIST’ WEBSE FOR ‘CEL AND HUIATG’ TREATMENT
• HOW MIA FREEDMAN GOT HER ROXANE GAY TERVIEW SO WRONG
• ROXANNE GAY VS MAMAMIA
• ROXANE GAY WAS BODY-SHAMED BY MAMAMIA PODST HOST
• ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF BAD FEMIST THOR
• 'CEL AND HUIATG': BAD FEMIST THOR ROXANE GAY LLS OUT TREATMENT BY MAMAMIA
• HOW MAMAMIA'S TREATMENT OF ROXANE GAY REVEALS THE FATPHOBIA IN FEMIST SPAC
• FEMIST ROXANE GAY DISCS THAT MAMAMIA ARTICLE LLG 'WEIRD AND UNFORTABLE... AND I THK JT PETTY' - AS FOUNR MIA FREEDMAN SAYS SHE'S 'MORTIFIED, HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED'
• FROM MIA FREEDMAN ON ROXANE GAY.
• ROXANE GAY PROMOT NEW BOOK AND CALLS OUT PODST FOR ‘FAT-PHOBIA’
• ROXANE GAY IS A BAD FEMIST. SHE WANTS YOU TO STOP TREATG MEN LIKE PREC SNOWFLAK.

MAMAMIA WEBSE APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF THOR ROXANE GAY

The Atralian webse Mamamia has apologised to the US thor Roxane Gay after publishg a podst terview wh text that asked whether she would “f to the office lift”, the award-wng thor of Bad Femist, said she was “appalled by Mamamia” after the terview she gave to the se’s -founr and creative director, Mia Freedman, while promotg her new book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Mamamia said later was “eply apologetic that this stance we’ve missed the mark ntributg to this discsn” Monday a scriptn posted to Mamamia’s No Filter podst disclosed an extensive list of preparatns the webse claimed to have ma to acmodate Gay durg an terview May.

”In a now-leted article which was published on Monday, a ched versn of which is still available, Freedman said the requts had been sent to her by Gay’s publisher, tailed “more than a dozen exchang”. In no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah.

The apology said that the “many requts” ma by Gay’s publisher “were asked good fah by her publishg team to make Roxane feel as fortable as possible and we willgly answered all qutns and plied wh all requts. Roxane Gay, the thor of several crilly acclaimed books cludg Bad Femist, Difficult Women and the jt-released Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, endured what she’s appropriately scribed as “cel and huiatg” treatment at the hands of Atralia’s self-scribed “largt pennt women’s webse. ”Anyone who follows the femist thor on Twter knows that Gay has been makg the terview rounds ahead of Hunger’s but, a book that tails Gay’s experience “learng how to feed your hunger while takg re of yourself.

ROXANE GAY RPONDS TO MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

”Mamamia has sce apologized, releasg a statement that reads part:In no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah. As thors do when they're about to release a book, Roxane Gay has been out dog prs around the world anticipatn of her newt memoir, Hunger, which follows 2014's Bad she didn't anticipate is Atralian women's webse Mamamia publishg what appeared to be her private requts, breachg nfintialy.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY HS BACK AT WEBSE FOR S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

The "dozens of exchang" were ed to help pat the scene the No Filter podst, which Gay appeared on wh the se's founr, Mia Mamamia would "acmodate" Gay for her terview is discsed the episo's prologue and the article about the podst, which has sce been leted. Image source, EmpicsImage ptn, Roxane Gay (L) was terviewed for a podst at Mia Freedman's publitnIt was meant to be an terview to promote a Mia Freedman's podst chat wh femist thor Roxane Gay has been overshadowed by the words ed to trail Freedman wrote about wonrg whether Ms Gay would "f to the office lift" and searchg for a chair "sturdy enough to hold her weight" Gay lled the words "cel and huiatg".

"Image source, @urtney_roImage ptn, A screengrab of the origal podst scriptn was shared on TwterBut rponse, Ms Gay tweeted that she was "appalled", that the words were "cel and huiatg", the suatn was "disgtg and shameful". At Mamamia, we are huge Roxane Gay fans and supporters, so was an honour to wele the bt-sellg thor and profsor to our offic last month to rerd a podst books and works are greatly admired, and as you’d image there was much excement that she was g to the office. ”We felt that this was an important issue that was tegral to unrstandg Roxane’s pot of view the world and helpg people learn about and empathise wh a perspective they may never have nsired – jt as she wr her no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah.

Amerin Femist wrer Roxane Gay has slammed women's webse Mamamia for an 'appallg' article that purported to share what went on 'behd the scen' of an terview she had wh founr Mia Monday, the women's webse tweeted tails of an terview between the pair, sayg that a 'lot of planng' had gone to Roxane's vis to the webse's offic, where she was due to talk about her most recent book, Hunger, which she opens up about how she turned to food after beg gang-raped at the age of 12. Amerin Femist wrer Roxane Gay (pictured) has slammed women's webse Mamamia for an 'appallg' article that purported to share what went on 'behd the scen' of an terview she had wh founr Mia Freedman.

ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA WEBSE 'HUIAT' FEMIST THOR

'Whatever, Jt what the f*** ever, ' she wrote another article - that was acpanied by a podst and published on Mamamia but has sce been removed - was wrten by the webse's founr Mia Freedman and was tled: 'Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay'. ' The article - that was published on Mamamia but has sce been removed - was wrten by the webse's founr Mia Freedman and was tled 'Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay'Femist thor Roxane Gay tweeted about the article sayg 'Shame on you Mamamia' Roxane rpond to the Mamamia article sayg on Twter: 'It is cel and huiatg'Freedman went on to provi tails of what she claimed went on 'behd the scen' while anisg her terview wh Roxane, who her book tails how she 'ate and ate and ate to build my body to a fortrs' after beg gang-raped at age 12.

'You see, Roxane Gay… well I’m searchg for the right word to e here… I don’t want to say fat so… even though she the word fat about herself… I’m gog to e the official medil term 'super morbidly obe', ' she said. I don’t want to say fat so I’m gog to e the official medil term: super morbidly obe, ' Mia Freedman (pictured) wrote about the femist thor The femist thor rpond after the women's webse tweeted tails of an terview sayg that a 'lot of planng' had gone to Roxane's vis Roxane, a llege profsor and the thor of several books cludg the bt-seller Bad Femist, h back on Twter, labellg the article 'cel and huiatg'Social media quickly epted wh people's thoughts on the treatment of femist in Roxane Gay'Her size is credibly imposg. The menter poted to the fact that Roxane Gay is an 'actual human who n get herself to an actual lift'Crics were quick to h back at the article on social and edian Rosie Waterland wrote: 'I rarely tweet, and never about my old workplace Mamamia, but I jt burst to tears when I saw this.

It was an honour to wele the bt-sellg thor and profsor to our offic last month to rerd a podst books and works are greatly admired, and as you'd image there was great excement that she was g to the an inic femist and one of the most well rpected and powerful voic femism, Roxane Gay has long been a role mol for women and someone Mamamia has and will ntue to champn and n listen to the full terview here for terview was to promote Roxane's new memoir, Hunger (you should buy here), which is a very personal and tailed acunt of her relatnship wh her body, her sexualy, her weight and her experience as a victim and survivor of rape. 'We felt that this was an important issue that was tegral to unrstandg Roxane's pot of view the world and helpg people learn about and empathise wh a perspective they may never have nsired – jt as she wr her no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah.

STATEMENT REGARDG MAMAMIA'S PODST TERVIEW WH ROXANE GAY.

We are mortified to thk she would ever believe this to be the se or that we have upset someone we so eply admire and soon as we beme aware of her feelgs about , we took down the wrten post, eded the podst tro and changed the podst scriptn to remove all referenc to the qutns asked by her publishers and about tails she said she found like her prev works Hunger, Roxane Gay’s latt book, uldn't e more highly n buy Roxane's new book, Hunger, here. Somehow “a dozen exchang” to arrange an terview wh Atralian webse Mamamia led to a breach of nfince, a poorly-thought-out troductn, and a “cel and huiatg” experience for thor Roxane Monday, the self-proclaimed femist webse helmed by journalist Mia Freedman published a podst terview wh Gay, who was promotg her new book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Gay’s latt novel expands upon ias she’s discsed terviews and on Twter before: the anxiety and huiatn that wh existg a world that ems you take up too much room, and won’t acmodate your experience.

However, spe the beg topics that Gay shar her memoir and even mak an example of durg her Mamamia terview, Freedman, who terviewed Gay for the podst, fixated entirely on this pot her terview tros both the podst and a post onle. " Get why Mia Freedman found @rgay requts tertg, but they're private for a reason Akar Surbakti (@AkarSurbakti) June 13, 2017The thg that piss me off is that MamaMia/Mia Freedman sells their ntent as femist when is anythg but that— Lren Ingram (@lrengram) June 13, 2017No Filter is apt name for the podst.

ROXANE GAY SLAMS MAMAMIA'S 'CEL AND HUIATG' ARTICLE

She said she never her life asked if she would f an elevator or requted any of the other ridiculo elaborate tails allegedly mand by Gay’s reprentatn: “How many steps were there om the curb to the door of the buildg?

“It’s jt a nstant seri of qutns that you are askg yourself every sgle day before you go to any space, and ’s exhstg bee people don’t thk, they jt assume that everyone fs the world like they do, ” Gay said. Perhaps next time Mamamia wants to have their rears and listeners “empathize” wh someone of a different experience, such as Gay, they should stick to the terview subject’s words and explanatns, stead of lorg a rtoonish, horrific pictn.

Woven to the story, along wh her famoly sharp social mentary, is her ongog stggle wh trma after havg been gang-raped as a child, explorg the part that event and s aftermath played shapg her plex relatnship wh her Tuday, the day before her book was released the US, Gay got wd of Freedman's troductn to the the podst which she scribed Gay as "super-morbidly obe" and ma a seri of sensatnal claims about the "planng" that went to acmodatg the wrer ("Will she f to the office lift? An acpanyg article which was leted om the Mamamia webse after tense social media backlash, had the tle "Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay", and ma Gay's refal to be pictured s ma foc, as well as revealg alleged private rrponnce wh Gay's publicist that the wrer has sce nied took place, sistg she only requted "a sturdy chair".

ROXANE GAY LLS OUT ATRALIAN ‘FEMIST’ WEBSE FOR ‘CEL AND HUIATG’ TREATMENT

Mamamia founr and publisher Mia Steven SiewertAs outrage got the topic trendg on Twter, Gay scribed Mamamia as "a sh show" and her treatment by Freedman as "cel and huiatg" followg day, Hunger was released amid global headl about the cint wh Mamamia, cludg om The New York Tim, Washgton Post and The Guardian, as well as equivalent women's webs the US. "To unrstand exactly where and how badly Freedman went wrong, 's necsary to have a solid grasp of ntemporary tersectnal femism and Roxane Gay's posn wh the movement, as a sort of popular high prits and no-BS-takg tth-talker.

HOW MIA FREEDMAN GOT HER ROXANE GAY TERVIEW SO WRONG

So part of an tersectnal approach is elevatg the voic and experienc of women who are not whe, straight, able-bodied and wealthy, as is treatg stggl other than those relatg to genr as an sential part of the femist Roxane GayCred: Jay GrabiecMamamia, synonymo wh Freedman – s founr and publisher – lls self the "largt pennt women's webse Atralia", and says on s webse that is "utterly mted to makg a difference to women's liv". "Privileged people like Freedman nsistently – pathologilly – force non-normative bodi and inti to feel like a cursy or imposn, " Marsn cint "shows jt how far [Freedman] is om seeg fat people as worthy of humany and rpect and not jt an nvenient vehicle for a th woman's realisatn, " Melbourne-based cric Brodie Lanster wrote for News 's an approach that nnot bsh up agast an tellectual force like Roxane Gay whout a mimum of tensn, and the risk of flat-out cmblg. At one pot the podst, Freedman tells Gay she's sred of offendg her when the thor brgs up the fact that, y, 's awkward to talk about the ntent of her book wh terviewers who aren't ed to talkg to fat people about their bodi a way that manag to be both ank and Freedman went on to spectacularly fail this regard, spe havg read and loved Gay's book and spoken to her about for an hour is ttament to how eply entrenched fat-phobia remas, even among those who nsir themselv enlightened.

Gay was Sydney for the Wrer’s Ftival to talk about her prev publitns – cludg the btsellg femist tome ‘Bad Femist’ and the heartbreakgly raw short story llectn ‘Difficult Women’ – and to promote her new book, ‘Hunger’, which is a memoir om the perspective of her body, which rerds and mat on both the xil and non-xil trac that experienc such as beg gang-raped as a child, and beg tormented for beg overweight, has left on her flh and her md.

ROXANNE GAY VS MAMAMIA

By allowg rears to avert their ey om discsns that may be hard for them to take , or that may make them revis their trma, Gay suggts that trigger warngs are providg a false sense of ntrol for victims of trma and are preventg them om alg wh what they mt al wh to work through what they evably mt. So the ma problem wh Mamamia’s podst troductn is not that exposed anxieti that Gay is not already willg to share – although (tangent happeng here), the hyperbolic qutng of whether Gay would be able to f to an dtrial-sized lift is a parture om anythg that Gay has ever divulged, or uld divulge bee is so obvly not a viable ncern.

At the Sydney Wrer’s Ftival, the reason for Gay’s time Sydney, there was a lot of discsn about how privileged, whe wrers might try to ntribute to progrsive dialogue about race, body and privilege self. Gay was Sydney for the Wrer’s Ftival to talk about her prev publitns – cludg the btsellg femist tome ‘Bad Femist, ’ and the heartbreakgly raw short story llectn, ‘Difficult Women’ – and to promote her new book, ‘Hunger’, which is a memoir om the perspective of her body, which rerds and mat on both the xil and non-xil trac that experienc such as beg gang-raped as a child, and beg tormented for beg overweight, have left on her flh and her md.

By allowg rears to avert their ey om discsns that may be hard for them to take , or that may make them revis their trma, Gay suggts that trigger warngs are actually providg a false sense of ntrol for victims of trma, and are preventg them om alg wh what they mt al wh orr to work through what they evably mt.

ROXANE GAY WAS BODY-SHAMED BY MAMAMIA PODST HOST

So the ma problem wh Mamamia’s podst troductn is not that exposed anxieti that Gay is not already willg to share – although (tangent happeng here), the hyperbolic qutng of whether Gay would be able to f to an dtrial-sized lift is clearly a parture om anythg that Gay has ever divulged, or uld divulge, bee is so obvly not a viable ncern. Gay the word "fat" to scribe herself, and 's a word many the body-posive muny have "taken back" as a scriptor — based on the ia that jt scrib a state of beg, and don't have to have negative nnotatns.

Friedman's scriptns of their teractns and the acmodatns ma for Gay prr to her vis were anythg but sensive — and people are rightfully the origal scriptn of the podst, Friedman referred to Gay as "super morbidly obe" and went to the tails of the preparatn Friedman claims Gay's vis required.

ROXANE GAY: MAMAMIA APOLOGIS FOR 'CEL AND HUIATG' TREATMENT OF BAD FEMIST THOR

Women's news webse Mamamia, and s founr Mia Freedman, have apologised after beg slammed for their "cel and huiatg" treatment of femist thor Roxane, the thor of 2014's Bad Femist, was Atralia last month for the Sydney Wrer's Ftival and several events promotg her new memoir Hunger, which discs the challeng of negotiatg the world as, her words, "a woman of size" the time she did an terview wh Freedman for Mamamia, which was published as a podst on Sunday wh a ptn — which has sce been eded — cludg sensive tails about the planng that went to Gay's terview. "'She is beg rightly exriated'But Mamamia has received signifint blowback om Gay herself and media mentators, cludg former Mamamia employe, for both the wordg ed and for revealg nfintial behd-the-scen tails of the slammed Mamamia on Twter, scribg the cint as "cel and huiatg".

'Cel and huiatg': Bad Femist thor Roxane Gay lls out treatment by MamamiaAcclaimed femist thor Roxane Gay has lled out her "cel and huiatg" treatment by Mia Freedman and Mamamia, after a podst rerd when she was Sydney last month was released on podst, which Gay discs her new memoir Hunger - about her challeng wh size and a culture that means and ref to acmodate fat people - was troduced by Freedman who aired sensive claims about how the thor was acmodated. Cred: Damian BentIn an acpanyg article entled "Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay" and which has sce been removed om the Mamamia webse, Freedman revealed "there were more than a dozen exchang back and forth between my producer and her people and the tails of them both broke my heart and opened my ey.

'CEL AND HUIATG': BAD FEMIST THOR ROXANE GAY LLS OUT TREATMENT BY MAMAMIA

Gay has to assume that, spe that fact that everyone volved creatg the space where she is gog is aware that fat people exist, ’s possible that absolutely nobody even nsired fat people the velopment of the space. Although Gay is an amic and cultural mentator as well as a femist celebry, as the Mamamia terview bacle showed, the two tradns n lli, creatg a new set of problems where the polil n bee unhelpfully personal. Roxane Gay, the thor of several crilly acclaimed books cludg Bad Femist, Difficult Women and the jt-released Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, endured what she's appropriately scribed as "cel and huiatg" treatment at the hands of Atralia's self-scribed "largt pennt women's webse.

HOW MAMAMIA'S TREATMENT OF ROXANE GAY REVEALS THE FATPHOBIA IN FEMIST SPAC

"Anyone who follows the femist thor on Twter knows that Gay has been makg the terview rounds ahead of Hunger's but, a book that tails Gay's experience "learng how to feed your hunger while takg re of yourself. "Mamamia has sce apologized, releasg a statement that reads part:In no way did Mamamia ever tend to make Roxane Gay feel disrpected and we apologise unequivolly that that was the untend nsequence, cludg to her publishg team who anised the vis and ma the requts good fah.

Femist thor Roxane Gay has opened up about her experience wh the Atralian women's webse, after the webse's founr, Mia Freedman, wrote an article purportg to discs what went on 'behd the scen' of her terview wh Roxane.

Amerin femist thor, Roxane Gay (pictured), has opened up about her experience wh the Atralian 'women's webse', Mamamia This after the webse's founr, Mia Freedman (pictured), wrote an article purportg to discs what went on 'behd the scen' of her terview wh Roxane Roxane (pictured) spoke about how she was treated by Mamamia on the Wall Street Journal's Book Club discsn on TudayRoxane ntued to tail how she was treated by the 'women's webse', Mamamia, and founr Mia Freedman, who has sce issued a personal apology sayg she's 'eply sorry'.

FEMIST ROXANE GAY DISCS THAT MAMAMIA ARTICLE LLG 'WEIRD AND UNFORTABLE... AND I THK JT PETTY' - AS FOUNR MIA FREEDMAN SAYS SHE'S 'MORTIFIED, HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED'

And I thk jt petty, ' she Monday, women's webse, Mamamia, me unr fire after they published a podst and acpanyg article tled 'Why, for the first time, I have no photo om my terview wh Roxane Gay'.

AdvertisementSKIP Robson/Getty Imag for The New YorkerJune 13, 2017Roxane Gay, an ternatnally known femist wrer and profsor, released a memoir on Tuday that foced, part, on what is like to move through the world as an overweight was both annoyg and somewhat ftg, she said, that she had gotten attentn this week not only for her work but also for a podst that provoked a backlash for suggtg that was difficult to arrange an terview wh Ms.

Gay is also well known for the 2014 New York Tim bt seller “Bad Femist, ” a book of new memoir “tak rears through the physil and emotnal reali of her daily life as a woman of size, ” said the publisher, Harper, a news release. Roxane Gay on what happens when beloved wrers die, pretty celebri speak, and smart femists more on Roxane Gay and whether we should all be ‘bad femists’, listen to this week’s Mamamia Out Loud podst.

FROM MIA FREEDMAN ON ROXANE GAY.

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