Fatphobia (w/ Roxane Gay)

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

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4.8 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Oh boy this is a juicy one. Author Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Hunger) joins Nicole to discuss their experiences with institutional racism, dealing with fatphobia in interviews, and how she treated school like a videogame. Then, Roxane shares the story behind eloping, how quarantine is testing the strength of relationships everywhere, and how her wife woo'd her through podcasting. Be an active ally. For a list of resources and ways to help, check out blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. Follow Nicole Byer: Twitter: @nicolebyer Instagram: @nicolebyer Facebook: www.facebook.com/nicolebyercomedy Buy Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/nicole-byer?ref_id=964 Order Nicole's book: www.indiebound.org/book/9781524850746 Advertise on Why Won’t You Date Me via Gumball.fm

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0:00.0	Why won't you date me?
0:10.0	Why won't you date me?
0:12.0	Why won't you date me?
0:14.0	Please, tell me why.
0:18.0	Oh, wow, wow, wow.
0:25.0	Welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me?
0:27.0	But podcasts for me, Nicole Byer tries to figure out how I'm still single, even though you could rip my headphones out of my ears, hide them forever, never tell me where they are, and I would still date you.
0:39.0	I am running out of these, but my guest today has written some incredible things like bad feminist, hunger, difficult women, and untamed state.
0:49.0	It's Roxanne Gaye!
0:51.0	Hi.
0:52.0	Roxanne, I thank you so much for doing this.
0:56.0	You're welcome. It's my pleasure.
0:58.0	Oh my goodness. I truly... I think I've told you this before because we met and we had coffee and it was delightful.
1:06.0	But I loved hunger so much.
1:11.0	You have a true talent of...
1:15.0	You wrote a book and any old person can read it, but I felt like you were talking specifically to me.
1:23.0	That means a lot. I love when people feel like my work connects with them.
1:29.0	And you know, it's a very specific book, but that people still see themselves and their lives and the stories of their bodies in the story of my body means quite a lot to me.
1:44.0	There was one story in it that...
1:48.0	Really spoke to me and it was on the elliptical, a thinner person had gotten on the elliptical next to you.
1:55.0	And you were like, I will outlast this person on this elliptical if it fucking kills me.
2:02.0	And going like, a gym is not a nice place for fat people.
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