There have been many attempts at writing about my body. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. The best selling author intimately explores concepts of representation and body agency through the exposure of her past physical traumas. Without giving anything away, Hunger is Gay’s personal narrative journey detailing her experiences struggling with obesity, racism, and other acts against her body, derived from being raped as a child.
When writing about my paralysis, I feel as if I’m not being real enough to the experiences and emotions that I’m attempting to convey- Hunger has helped to change all of that for me. Writing about my life as a differently abled individual, on the other hand, is a different story. Challenging my marginalization as a cisgender Black woman has always been a relatively easy process for me. A blogger for the past four years, writing is my way of practicing my feminist activism.
I perceived my body as a hindrance to the manifestation of the me that I had dreams of becoming dreams I generally deferred because of misgivings about my body.īecoming a writer is one of those dreams.
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I’d often find myself questioning romantic relationships, professional undertakings, and responsibilities of motherhood based on anxieties I’d created due to its lack of ability. Partially paralyzed due to “complications at birth,” for many years I struggled to accept my body in its authentic form. Reading Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was the first time I began to unapologetically look at my body as being something other than deviant.