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Not only do I admire Gay’s ability to come forth and share her story of becoming a victim AND a survivor, but also being strong enough to be as candid and transparent as she can be given the circumstance. Yeah, that sentence is exactly as mortifying as you think. This book is the raw and honest story of how Roxane Gay used her body and her fat to create a physical barrier between her and predators following her traumatic experience of being gang-raped by multiple boys from her school when she was 15. I’m not going to go further into the details of society’s fatphobia because I want you to read this book, but instead, I wanted to also share another reason why I chose and ultimately ended up loving this memoir.
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Many of the accessibility privileges people of my size and smaller take for granted are non-existent for those of Gay’s size, especially when it comes to airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters, and much more. Women of Gay’s size are often ridiculed, harassed, and shamed in public for their appearance in a way that completely dehumanizes them. For one, many clothing stores don’t recognize any size over 22 or so, which makes buying clothes incredibly difficult. In the plus-size world, a world I’ve been personally apart of my entire life, I always saw myself as being at the furthest end of the spectrum, however, this book and a few other self-proclaimed “fat” women have opened my eyes to the reality that my size is not as big as it gets, and that there are many women bigger than me who have an entirely different set of social issues caused by their size. Gay points out that this is just the semi-socially acceptable form of a plus-sized woman and that she does not fall into that category, being well over a size 16, at a size 42. Often times, plus-sized women are categorized in one form having curves, being “thick”, or wearing between a size 10-16.
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In fact, this is a point she brings up in her book. Of course, upon reading her book and looking at her photos, I cannot compare my own fatness to hers, as we are in two different levels of the word.