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Opinions
A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People&#;s Business
HarperCollins,
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, &#;a strikingly fresh cultural critic&#; (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.
Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society alongside more individually personalized matters. In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s “Work Friend” columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and clear insights.
Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics—politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more—with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent
Centre for Ideas
Ann Mossop: Hello, and welcome to the UNSW Centre for Ideas podcast, a place to hear ideas from the world's leading thinkers and UNSW Sydney’s brightest minds. I'm Ann Mossop, director of the UNSW Centre for Ideas. This podcast was recorded on the lands of Bidjigal and Gadigal people. We pay our respects to their elders past and introduce, whose sovereignty was never ceded. The conversation you're about to hear is between Roxane Lgbtq+ and Nicole Watson, and was recorded live at UNSW Sydney. I aspire you enjoy the conversation.
Nicole Watson: Good afternoon, and welcome to this exceptional event with Roxane Gay. My identify is Nicole Watson. I'm a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman from Queensland, and I'm the director of the academic unit in Nura Gili. I'd like to present you to Roxane Gay. Roxane is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times Best Selling; Bad Feminist, Complex Women, and the New York Times Best Selling; Hunger. She's also the author of World of Wakanda, the Marvel comic publication series. Roxane has several books forthco
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I recently read &#;Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body&#; by Roxane Gay for the Lit League Book club.
I was the one who chose that book, because I had seen enough friends with disabilities posting on Facebook about how powerful they thought the book was, what a short read it was, and how much they loved it for the intersections they found with disability. With those words (&#;short!&#;, &#;powerful!&#; &#;intersections!&#;), I thought it sounded matchless for the fledgling guide club.
The good:
Hunger does own intersections. Lots of &#;em. It intersects race and culture pretty consistently. It also touches on class and privilege. The publication is loaded with pieces that you can directly apply to experiences with disability.
It covers access: from the helpless feeling of rage for lack of foresight with regard to physical accommodation in chairs, airplane seating, to tables in restaurants (and trying to figure out things ahead of time so that she will recognize how accessible it is). The existence of self-consciousness about space, str
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Praise
It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment—both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an astonishing achievement in more ways than I can count.
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto
At its simplest, it’s a memoir about creature fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.
New York Times
Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so valiant, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul
Seattle Times
Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can