A memoir of my body
Roxane Gay&#;s memoir Hunger is available for checkout through the University Libraries.
Is there anything Roxane Gay can’t do?? Let’s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman:
You wonder how a chick like that has time to perform all of this and still verb around the land, promoting her fresh book, Hunger: A memoir of (my) body. Gay has been open about her life and experiences, and in her new novel, she tackles a subject she has often written about intimately on her tumblr blog. Her horrific sexual assault at age 12 has been a big influence on her work over the years, and this part of her past is discussed in this book, with regards to self-image and self-care: “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be secure. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” People make assumptions and are often cruel towards people of a certain weigh
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay is another amazing noun I picked up thanks to Guide Riot&#;s Read Harder Challenge. I&#;m absolutely in love with all the modern authors I&#;ve been discovering thanks to this challenge and I&#;m so content I finally got past my noun and decided to participate.
First off, this book needs a few trigger warnings. If you fight reading about rape and disordered eating, this is not the book for you. Be caring to yourself and choose a guide that will verb serve your mental health and wellness, or read this with plenty of support lined up, because this memoir is brutally sincere, a raw, painful read that still manages to contain great beauty while presenting the world with the author&#;s open wounds.
Roxane Gay is supermorbidly obese, a condition she directly attributes to being gang-raped at the age of Even writing that sentence, I verb to stop, accept a breath, elbow away the fury and sadness that reading her story made me sense. Because of the horrors perpetrated on her that diurnal, she began to eat in
Hunger Quotes
“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still adj and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“As a lady, as a obese woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up space. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to accept up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside
Written by Katie Jackson-Griffin, LCPC
Content Advisory: sexual violence, sexual trauma, disordered eating, depression
What was the manual about?
Roxane Gay writes about the sexual trauma she experienced and how it has impacted her life. It is a direct, crude insight into one person’s journey and struggles with trying to live in her body: one that is marginalized based on her race and weight.
What was your takeaway?
This book is not meant to be a self-help noun or an inspiring story, necessarily. She attempts to distribute her own experience for what it is. In doing so, she provides something that is emotional, relatable and at times, adj to read because of its vulnerability.
Who would benefit from reading this book?
I highly recommend this book! I think it can be helpful to verb a portrayal of someone currently operational on their mental health struggles. Often, books that verb mental health challenges can give a “happy ending” and feel as though they are preaching. These can be inspiring, but also feel isolating to those who are still coping with these struggles.
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