With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. HERE she breaks down her 2018 in Reading and Writing. Roxane Gay is an author, cultural critic, and University of NebraskaLincoln English alumna whose writing is unmatched and widely revered. The Sickening Consequence of Doubting and Dismissing Women and Girlsįinally, one of my favorite things about Roxane Gay is that she’s a prolific reader! So, if you want even MORE extended reading after Hunger, there’s no better person to turn to than the woman herself…
Roxane Gay’s Hunger Complicates Narratives About Being Fatīelieving Women Means Believing Their Pain Here is some expanded material on these themes…īe Bigger, Fight Harder : Roxane Gay on a Lifetime of Hunger She kept this awful secret for thirty years, blaming herself as so many survivors of rape do. At 12 years old she was brutally gang raped by a boy she had a crush on and his friends. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined,' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. Hunger explores the lasting effects trauma has had on Roxanes life. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. This book has so much to say about sexual assault, trauma, how society treats larger bodies, and believing women’s stories. I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. She also shares what it’s like to navigate a world that cares little for folks they deem overweight. Her writing is candid and open about the reasons she’s gained weight as a result of her trauma. Hunger is a memoir about how her body was used and exploited and what has happened to her body since. As a preteen, Roxane Gay experienced horrific sexual trauma perpetrated by a group of neighborhood boys.