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This written post is also the same intro that remains on the podcast.
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Sadly, the words Freedman used introducing and describing the interview were less-than-stellar.
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Gay talks about the experiences she describes in the book with candor and grace, and Freedman is very careful in her questioning, specifically talking about the fact that she understands the importance of words, and how easily the wrong ones can hurt. What’s sad is that the podcast interview itself is very good. Gay did the interview to promote her newest memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which according to The Daily Dot is about “the anxiety and humiliation that comes with existing in a world that deems you take up too much room, and won’t accommodate your experience.” Writer and “bad feminist,” Roxane Gay was being interviewed by Mia Freedman of the feminist Australian site Mamamia for their podcast. Usually, when interviewers are speaking directly with a well-known writer and activist whose latest book deals with issues of which that writer has first-hand experience, the interviewer’s best bet is to allow the writer to speak on the subject, giving them a platform rather than attempting to describe the experience themselves, or make the experience about themselves.