Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash I learned interacting with the world is different as an obese person.Īs an average sized person, I found this difficult to understand as challenges like these never crossed my mind.
Her distaste for sweating made sense to me logically, (who likes to be hot and sticky anyway?) but to have them so visceral and having an understanding of where these emotions stem from and laid plain before your eyes is a otherworldly experience. It has forced me to confront my own perception and unconscious biases about plus-sized people.īefore this book, part of me wondered she didn’t like to sweat (we live in Singapore - sweating in our hot and humid weather is a norm.) This book helped me understand how my girlfriend, who is plus-sized, thinks and feels about her own body. In Hunger, Roxane talks about how she found solace in food after she was raped, her continuous struggle with food, eating disorders and her up-and-down battle feeling desirable and comfortable in her body. Roxane Gay’s writing is so confessional and personal that you feel like you’re looking over her shoulder as she writes into her diary, watching her spill her deepest, darkest thoughts onto the pages.
