In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past — including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life — and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. (From Harper)
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Media Audio | As It Happens : Author Roxane Gay fears for women and minorities under a Trump presidency
Caption: Roxane Gay, author of "Bad Feminist" and an associate professor at Purdue University, struggles to come to terms with how millions of Americans were willing to vote for a candidate who has displayed open contempt for women.