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Głód. Pamiętnik (mojego) ciała by Roxane Gay

4 reviews

naomiwinograd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This was a tough book to get through. I almost cried several times, and i’m not a very emotional person. This book deserves no less than 5 stars because of how perfectly it depicted her story and how necessary it was to be told. It’s brave for anyone to tell their story, because it’s terrifying. (I don’t need to elaborate, read the book) But it gives other women hope. It honestly changed my whole perspective. I’ve always been on her side with these sorts of things but she made me not only realize WHY i fight for these things but also made me passionate about them. As someone with a BMI under 30 i never really understood fat phobia to a great extent. Maybe I never will. But she really helped me get closer and i think any book that does that is a good one. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Even more powerful hearing Gay's perspective in her voice rather than just reading the words alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

susysimmonds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

anger566's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed this memoir! I listened to the audiobook and I feel like it made the experience so much better. I think a lot of people (especially young women) can relate to Gay's analysis of her own life and how weight gain and self-image can impact us while we're young and influence our relationships well into adulthood. Although this memoir mainly centered around Gay's relationship with food, hunger, and self-image I appreciated the parts about living as a black woman in the Midwest and feeling out of place in academia because of your race and size. Definitely read! (or listen lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Rape

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

Author was sexually assaulted as a child, she talks about this in detail. The author describes being body shamed because of her weight/size. The memoir centers around her relationship with food and her weight so there she recounts many fat-shaming memories. The author describes her past experience with bulimia in detail. Briefly mentions how she was emotionally and physically abused by past partners. Author mentions buying beer on her 21st birthday. The author describes her broken ankle.