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To have major stomach surgery to reduce the size of your stomach, how does that fit with fat positivity and trying to be at peace with the way you are? i think it doesnt, necessarily. i mean, i think that, for me, as ive gotten older, ive realised, what kind of life do i want and how active do i want that life to be? and...i think that you can feel reasonably positive about yourself and also want to lose weight. and ijust hit a point where i realised... ..this is not going to happen without inte...

Let me ask you about that word, fat and fatness, cos ijust used the word obesity. and i notice you said, actually, you know, fat is the word. yes. and its very interesting, in hunger and lots of other writing youve done, youve insisted on using this word fat, which some other, particularly women who are overweight, they dont like the word fat. and they also talk about something which i dont think you really do talk about, which is body positivity and embracing their fatness, their...their curves...

And i guess theyre different impulses, but theyre both there. theyre both there and in some ways theyre both compatible because, you know, i have definitely found that, even though you are highly visible as a fat person, people tend to look right through you. and at the same time, really, i wanted to feel safe. i wanted to feel solid. i wanted to make sure something like this could never happen to me again. and i mistakenly thought that there would be some sort of set point where i would no long...

Yes. and its very interesting, in hunger and lots of other writing youve done, youve insisted on using this word fat, which some other, particularly women who are overweight, they dont like the word fat. and they also talk about something which i dont think you really do talk about, which is body positivity and embracing their fatness, their...their curves, you know. youve never really been of that sort of approach, have you? i havent. you know, i dont like the term obesity because i think it un...

No regrets whatsoever. you force all of us who read your books and talk to you to think very hard about how we view and treat fat people. mm—hm. and you have so many powerful stories about the judgmentalism and sometimes the contempt that you have faced from ordinary people in ordinary life. yes. is it changing at all? its not changing yet. it really isnt. people really do view fat as this repulsive thing that they should treat with the ultimate disdain. its the first insult. you know, one of ...

And nonfiction, youve written memoir, youve even contributed to a comic book series. mm—hm. you do a podcast. i mean, you are very creative and very busy, but it would be fair to say, would it not, that one book, if one wants to understand roxane gay, one book is at the heart of it and thats hunger? would you agree with that? i think either hunger or bad feminist, but i think mostly hunger because its my most personal book, its my memoir. and in it, i write about my life and its about living i...

So the next candid question is, how does your decision to have major stomach surgery to reduce the size of your stomach, how does that fit with fat positivity and trying to be at peace with the way you are? i think it doesnt, necessarily. i mean, i think that, for me, as ive gotten older, ive realised, what kind of life do i want and how active do i want that life to be? and...i think that you can feel reasonably positive about yourself and also want to lose weight. and ijust hit a point where i...

And i guess theyre different impulses, but theyre both there. theyre both there and in some ways theyre both compatible because, you know, i have definitely found that, even though you are highly visible as a fat person, people tend to look right through you. and at the same time, really, i wanted to feel safe. i wanted to feel solid. i wanted to make sure something like this could never happen to me again. and i mistakenly thought that there would be some sort of set point where i would no long...

No regrets whatsoever. you force all of us who read your books and talk to you to think very hard about how we view and treat fat people. mm—hm. and you have so many powerful stories about the judgmentalism and sometimes the contempt that you have faced from ordinary people in ordinary life. yes. is it changing at all? its not changing yet. it really isnt. people really do view fat as this repulsive thing that they should treat with the ultimate disdain. its the first insult. you know, one of ...

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