Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

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

149 reviews

naoewald's review

challenging dark emotional

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Content Warnings

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

emmakay's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This very well might be the best book I have ever had the pleasure of reading. 

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Content Warnings

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

lorheard's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

juliefaas's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Fatphobia

emileeandherbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective

4.0

Roxane tells the story of her body; its complicated journey, its beauty, its pain, its trauma, its story. 

As a black, fat woman Roxane went through a looooooot. Our society is so fatphobic, so obsessed with wanting women’s physical forms to be small! Not just for attractiveness sake, but to disappear. To take up less space, as she puts it. 

There’s 1 million true statements made about feminism, sexism, fatphobia, racism, etc. made in this book it’s impossible to write them all down. I feel like I learned a lot, and I will suggest this book to anyone and everyone that has a body.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

januaryapril's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

A great book, such difficult subject matter but Roxane Gay does an amazing job at telling her story. I felt so connected to her and so aware the whole time I was reading. Made me very aware of my body and confronted many of the same thoughts I have about what it feels like to exist and move in this world. Also made me more aware of how others may feel. Why have we come to a point where we all have to be so obsessed with our bodies and how do we escape this?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Body shaming, Vomit, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual violence

madand's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, and Eating disorder

siobhanward's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

 I've never read anything by Roxane Gay before, but I see her reviews on a lot of books I've been reading recently and found myself using them as a gauge as to whether I might like a book. Gay is as good at picking books as she is at writing them apparently. This was a heavy, hard read but really good. Some parts were repetitive, beyond it being a stylistic choice it felt, but I understand the impact the repetition had at times.

This is a really heavy book - it's worth checking out other reviews and trigger warnings before jumping in because there were definitely times that I had to put it down for a bit before continuing. Still a great read and I look forward to reading more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Medical content, Fatphobia, and Injury/injury detail

aaliyah22's review

dark emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Fatphobia

rchltnnswd's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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