Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay

13 reviews

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Roxane Gay is such a masterful writer that I felt in good hands reading about sensitive topics. I'm glad I read this though it was difficult to find my footing sometimes in all the dark and troubling details. It's candid, sad, angering, challenging at once. Yet it was compelling and clever. It's my second Roxane Gay and I will surely read more in the future. Her perspective and wit are great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Injury/injury detail

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Racism, and Sexual harassment

anniemartyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

roxane gay just knows how to look into my soul and write about the things i am not brave enough to think about. i will follow this woman to the ends of the earth 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Ableism, Rape, Body shaming, Sexual violence, and Fatphobia

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense

3.5

It’s a really hard book for me as I know it’s not really a book meant for me. It is an important read for me to understand and combat my own fat phobia. I also have to combat books that are a about someone processing their life and still being in the middle of processing it without any kind of aha moment or this kind of memoir that is so brutally honest and vulnerable and in the gray area. I almost feel like I’m not mature enough or far enough in my journey to totally get this memoir and I felt this way when I read it a few years ago. I hope to keep reading it every few years to see if this changes for me. I’m the meantime, she’s an incredibly talented author and human on another playing field with her writing and I appreciate how she challenges me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Ableism, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Bullying, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, and Emotional abuse

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Biphobia, and Ableism

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Hate crime

jessie_roz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Ableism

foreverinastory's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brutally honest, this memoir scraped both me and Roxane to the bone.

CWs: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, eating disorder, vomit, fatphobia, body shaming, racism, emotional abuse, toxic relationship. Moderate: Medical content, medical trauma, medical fatphobia, domestic abuse, sexual content, misogyny, sexism, injury/injury detail, mental illness, self harm, ableism, suicidal thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

alexandratheroux's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I don't read a lot of memoirs but I love Roxane Gay and also struggle with body image so I knew I needed to read this one.
Roxane's combination of self awareness, vulnerability, and social critique is essential reading for anyone who struggles with body image. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism

livpasquarelli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Ableism

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction and Biphobia

lesbegays's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

as someone who is fat, has been fat my whole life (except for a few years of flirting with starvation in high school), and will almost certainly be fat for the rest of my life, this was painful to read. i am what roxane gay calls “lane bryant fat.” i can shop in stores with plus size sections, sometimes even in straight sizes if i’m lucky and the XL is sized very generously. i am more than a foot shorter than gay and don’t stand out, don’t take up as much space. i don’t know what it’s like to struggle to find any clothes at all, to worry about breaking or not fitting into furniture. but i do avoid going to the doctor because i know they’ll just tell me to lose weight, no matter the problem. i did have my eating disorder ignored by psychiatric professionals because i had starved my body from an unacceptable size down to an acceptable one. i have been teased and ignored and shamed. being reminded of those experiences hurts. the most painful part of this, though, was to hear the ways in which gay struggles so much with her body. loving my body has become an act of necessity and survival, and it hurts to see someone so successful and so much older than me still struggle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Vomit