With dueling ideas about fatness currently serving as a rallying cry for body positive activists, online concern trolls, and the medical health community, Gay is very considered in the discussions she has around size, and always careful to nail home that above all, fat people deserve dignity-not that her efforts always make a difference.
Juxtaposing Gay’s relationship with her “unruly body” with the impact of the American obsession with weight (with ample cultural evidence, from the celebrities who shill for diet companies to the popularity of shows like The Biggest Loser or My 600-lb Life), Gay unravels a subject that is omnipresent yet rarely addressed-the reality of living in a body that has been deemed by society to be problematic.
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She brings that same deftness to her own story: mercifully free of the unsolicited health advice or uplifting self-acceptance narrative that has become synonymous with many books centered on fat, Gay presents instead a briskly frank depiction of her size and the world’s response to it. Unpacking the allure of Beyoncé as nimbly as she creates fantasy-tinged short stories, poems, and the adventures of elite female warriors in Marvel’s short-lived comic book series, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Gay tends to focus her fiction on women whose lives have been disrupted or marginalized. Gang-raped at 12 by a band of boys led by her first crush, unwilling to tell her family what happened to her (and, in her belief, shatter their perception of her as a “good girl”), Gay used food as a coping mechanism as she sought the protection of a body she believed to be both removed from male desire and strong enough to fight back, a wish that ultimately proved destructive.Ī prolific essayist and cultural critic, Gay has tackled subjects both lighthearted and grave before. Gay unflinchingly guides readers through an exploration of pain, desire, and the realities of her life as an overweight woman, following a cataclysmic early trauma back to the root, and recording the reverberations that event has had on the rest of her life. The author, whose much-celebrated works, Bad Feminist (2014) and Difficult Women (2017) made her a hero for millennial feminists, has never shied away from getting personal, but her latest project, a memoir called Hunger, goes deep.
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