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Roxane Gay on Acceptance

Jun 23, 2017 | 72 videos
Video by The Atlantic

In Roxane Gay’s new memoir Hunger, the writer details her relationship with her body over her life. In this short interview, Gay critiques socially constructed beauty norms and how weight has been left out of the new culture of acceptance.

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Authors: Tynesha Foreman, Nicolas Pollock

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