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Will she fit into the office lift? How may steps will she have to take to get to the interview? Is there a comfortable chair that will accommodate her six-foot-three, 'super-morbidly-obese' from? None of this is disclosed with a mean spirit, it's part of what Roxane writes about in her new book Hunger. I'd estimate there were more than a dozen exchanges back and forth between my producer and her people and the details of them both broke my heart and opened my eyes.Īnd the Podcast intro seems to have read:Ī lot of planning has to go into a visit from best-selling author, college professor and writer Roxane Gay. But Roxane Gay's requirements were different. When you're interviewing an international guest or someone very famous, there are always logistics to be organised. The intro on the original article before the podcast read: Gay's podcast interview for the Australian website came out on Monday, and though it has been taken down and amended, people have screenshots of the podcast's original description as well as the cache being available online.īoth now edited sections explained the planning between the website and Gay's 'people'. Mia Freedman is 45-years-old and was the youngest ever editor of Australian Cosmopolitan at the age of 24. Now, it seems like the offending journalist has outed herself to be Mia Freedman of MamaMia. Am I supposed to be grateful you provided a sturdy chair? Why would you tell me this? Is it that arduous? Come on. I just did an interview w/ someone who read Hunger and they said "we did a bunch of special things to accommodate you. Gay told Vice that this particular book tour has been 'more awkward than any interviews I've done before'.Īnd, back in May, Gay even Tweeted about some of those encounters. Gay has written about her body before, both in her books and online, but this is the most in-depth journey into her weight that Roxane has put on paper.
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She discusses the personal story of being gang-raped at 12-years-old and how her subsequent weight gain meant she struggled navigating the fat-phobic world she lives in. Hunger is 42 year-old Gay's new book which is about weight gained, weight lost, and all things in-between. Roxane Gay is the brilliant mind that brought us Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and the just-released Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body.