(Reading) The story of my body is not a story of triumph. Would you read a couple of paragraphs from that for us? I'd like to start by having you read from the beginning of your book. She teaches English at Purdue University. Roxane Gay is best known for her best-selling collection of essays, "Bad Feminist." She's also a novelist and short-story writer and has been a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times. It's about starting to identify as lesbian but still being attracted to men. It's about being the daughter of middle-class Haitian immigrants and not fitting into the narrative of blackness. She thinks her body size is one of those consequences. It's about the consequences of being gang-raped when she was 12, back when she was thin. ![]() This is a book about living in the world when you are 300 or 400 pounds overweight," unquote.īut the book is about much more than that. ![]() My guest, Roxane Gay, has written a new memoir that she describes as, quote, "about living in the world when you are not a few or even 40 pounds overweight.
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