I’m smaller than Gay which affords me more privilege than her in navigating this world, but I still get the abuse, the constant messages that should hate myself for my fatness, my Blackness. And it comes to this: She lived under multiple marginalizations for her entire life when, given a choice to be able to opt out of one, to give herself a break from the constant abuse of the world, she did. It was not one that she came to easily and she was pondering it off and on for a number of years before finally going through with the process. She outlines why she made this choice in her piece, “ What Fullness Is” for Unruly Bodies. Her work has struck a chord with many fat feminists who found solace and strength in her words, myself included, but none of that gives me any room or right to tell her what she can and can’t do with her body. She has spoken passionately for fat activism, her book, “Hunger” , was about her struggles with food, trauma, and her own body. She has written a number of articles, books, and even comics. Gay has been one of the most visibly fat women of color working today. Roxane Gay had weight loss surgery (WLS) and I have many opinions and feelings about that but it is also none of my goddamn business what Roxane Gay does to Roxane Gay’s body. By Donyae Coles* / WearYourVoice Mag, AFROPUNK contributor
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