During an interview on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Gay said, “The bigger you become, the smaller your world gets. In Hunger, Gay talks at length about the struggles she faces in regular daily activities as a very big person, and for anyone who has never been or is not big, her admissions might be surprising. Her words are important for all of us, regardless of our size.
Representation of all body types and abilities is growing, and giving space and time to those who may have felt invisible in the past.Īuthor Roxanne Gay - whose books include Bad Feminist and her latest, a memoir about her life as a fat woman, Hunger - is tackling one difficult aspect of the body-positivity conversation: standing up for yourself when you don’t feel great about your body. The body-positivity movement has done so much for women and men the world over. Every Body celebrates inclusivity and the representation of human beings in every shape and form.
