Roxane Gay

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653 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Roxane Gay · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

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pressures about how to look masculine how to be physically strong how to be muscular and of course there's a more permissiveness for men to live in whatever kind of body they want but they still live with pressures and to see people find resonance in the work no matter what is is

has been one of the great joys of having the book out in the world.

just there's so many people connecting to it it being representative of like a bulletin board for society you know one of the things my mom always used to say was you eat with your eyes first and that can apply not only to food but to everything and that's why we all carry so many judgments about other people and other bodies it's because that's the you know no matter what that's what you see and it extends to other things like

I can't separate my race from my gender from my sexuality.

But you are always going to see that I'm black before you recognize any other thing about me.

And so that's always going to be I identify as black before I identify as anything else.

And it's because that's how I am perceived in the world first.

And then probably fatness, like by the time we get down to the rest of it.

It's like, well, look, I've already heard what you think about these four things.

So whatever you have to say next is not going to phase me.

That's also, I think, why it's so easy for people to judge each other because, like, that's the first set of information that we have about someone.

And for whatever reason, we have attributed qualities to people in different kinds of bodies that may or may not be true because people love to talk to fat people about, like, oh, my God, I'm just worried about your health.

I'm like, worry about your own health there, Drinky McDrinkerson.

Like, don't worry.

I'm like, don't worry about me.

I mean, at this point, it's been so long that it's not that I mean, I'm as over it as I'm going to be.

And fortunately, I've had a lot of therapy.

Same girl.

And that has helped a great deal such that

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