Hunger reminded me to be good to my body

I read Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body when I was visiting a friend in San Francisco. The memoir is an unflinching, unapologetic look into how trauma and societal expectations make and break the fat body. Importantly, as Queen Gay states in the book, “This is not a story of triumph.” As I read Hunger, I had to put it down several times because of how scary similar some of her experiences were to mine. The memoir dislodged a lot of buried shame and torment I felt about my own fat bo...