Roxane Gay described the Mamamia podcast as 'a sh.t show'. She says the phrase twice for dramatic impact. She goes on to say she doesn't want to describe Gay as 'fat', even though Roxane herself uses that word, so she medicalises her body by calling her 'super morbidly obese'. She said she thought a lot about breaching confidence, but she clearly didn't think to ask permission. Firstly, she disclosed access requirements and behind-the-scenes negotiations. Interviewed for Mamamia's podcast No Filter while she was in Sydney last month, the website's eponymous founder Mia Freedman objectified Gay in her introduction to the podcast released on Sunday – reducing her to wide-eyed descriptions of her 'heart-breaking' access requirements.įreedman's failings in this incident are journalistic, personal and political. Instead of riding high on launch day, Gay has found herself mired in a situation she describes as ' cruel and humiliating'. OPINION: Roxane Gay's latest book is out today, and while the celebrated feminist author admits she expected the publicity for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body to be a bit of a minefield, I doubt she expected it to go so wrong, so quickly. The acclaimed feminist author took to Twitter in response to a podcast and its description which she says was 'cruel and humiliating'.
