Article accompanying podcast interview with Mia Freedman detailed preparations website said it made to accommodate ‘imposing’ US authorThe US author Roxane Gay has labelled the Australian website Mamamia “cruel and humiliating” for publishing a podcast interview with text that asked whether she would “fit into the office lift”. Gay, the award-winner author of Bad Feminist, said she was “appalled by Mamamia” after the interview she gave to the site’s co-founder and creative director, Mia Freedman, while promoting her new book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Related: Sydney writers' festival: 'catastrophic' Trump looms large for Roxane Gay I am appalled by Mamamia. It was a shit show. I can walk a fucking mile. https://t.co/14RNv2Ig0B"Can she fit into the lift?" Shame on you @Mamamia https://t.co/14RNv2Ig0BIt is cruel and humiliating. https://t.co/XY2AU0XPFG Related: From Roxane Gay to Arundhati Roy: literary highlights for Australia in June Ok I can't keep this in. I just did an interview w/ someone who read Hunger and they said "we did a bunch of special things to accommodate.....you. Like. Am I supposed to be grateful you provided a sturdy chair? Why would you tell me this? Is it that arduous? Come on.Fucking gobsmacked. As a fat woman who used to work there and tried daily to make them understand this stuff... I am so sorry I failed.Whatever. Just what the fuck ever. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]