Hunger A Memoir of My Body by Emiliano Fernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u en-us 2018-10-23 16:43:44 UTC 2025-09-02 15:56:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Alarmclock.png emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296067224 2018-10-23 16:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296067224 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296068251 2018-10-23 16:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296068251 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296070083 2018-10-23 16:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296070083 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296070456 2018-10-23 16:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296070456 emilianoqfernandez 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https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296096137 2018-10-23 17:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296096137 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296100144 2018-10-23 17:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296100144 “I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.” ― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296101344 Gay highlights both her disassociation with self brought on by trauma, and also her fierce belief that the cure to this trauma is lost somewhere deep in her memory. This belief fuels her deep exploration of her life, the events in her life, and how they relate change and warp one another. For Gay memory is a way back to the past. A way back to a time before the woods.


]]> 2018-10-23 17:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296101344 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296104220 2018-10-23 17:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296104220 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296107146  “So many years past being raped, I tell myself what happened is “in the past.” This is only partly true. In too many ways, the past is still with me. The past is written on my body. I carry it every single day. The past sometimes feels like it might 🤬 me. It is a very heavy burden.”
 ―  Roxane Gay, Hunger

Gay sees her sexual assault as the moment of fracturing in her ego. The binary opposition at play in her story, in her memory, plays a major role in the troubles that would come from her sexual assault. The person Gay saw herself as, her younger self, the girl in the woods, was incapable of handling the violence done to her and thus was lost in the woods. Replaced with a new Gay, a Gay that would spend her life searching for her younger part. ]]> 2018-10-23 17:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296107146 The older I get, the more I understand that life is generally the pursuit of desires. We want and want and oh how we want. We hunger.”― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296113959 The pursuit of desires is infallibly human. Gay highlights the most base driving force in all people. The hunger people experience their desire for, for different, to feel full or whole is at the center of all human motivation. Gay shows that her literally hunger, her need for something more, is not only understandable, but universal.]]> 2018-10-23 18:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296113959 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296118315  “With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”

Gay examines the nature of patterns of behavior in life, and how as we age we are more able to identify and rectify these patterns. She connects this idea of pattern finding and growth to her anxieties regarding who she is. Gay underlines the problem with self awareness. If one can identify a pattern, then one must face it or ignore it. This conflict gives rise to change and evolution. But this is more easily said than done.]]> 2018-10-23 18:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296118315 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296122245  “I am determined to be more than my body - what my body has endured, what my body has become.”
 ―  Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Gay begins down a path of individual agency, and ultimately enlightenment]]> 2018-10-23 18:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296122245 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296124888  “It was a moment when I understood that all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others.”
 ―  Roxane Gay, Hunger

The forest is a part of Gay. It is not all of her. She is funny, and kind, and anxious, and so much more, but the woods are undeniably a part of her. The thing about the woods is that it's an incredible complex ecosystem. A series of intertwined entities that rely on one another. Gay understands this and shares with us the reality that life is not something one can own it's something we live in.]]> 2018-10-23 18:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296124888 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296127831 2018-10-23 18:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296127831 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296128936 2018-10-23 18:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296128936 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296130548 2018-10-23 18:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296130548 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296131150 2018-10-23 18:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296131150 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296133191 2018-10-23 18:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296133191 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296133581 2018-10-23 18:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296133581 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296134125 2018-10-23 18:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296134125 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296136892 2018-10-23 18:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296136892 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296137596  “I had (and have?) this void, this cavern of loneliness inside me that I have spent my whole life trying to fill"
 ―  Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

This void that Gay talks about is particularly poignant. The idea that no matter what we add to ourselves, no matter how far we run, how much we change the void remains. Gay uses things and encounters in her life to try and ease her suffering, but ultimately can never escape that suffering. ]]> 2018-10-23 18:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296137596 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296140411 2018-10-23 18:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296140411 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296142044 2018-10-23 18:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296142044 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296144805 2018-10-23 18:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296144805 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296146572 2018-10-23 18:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296146572 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296146904 2018-10-23 18:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296146904 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147109 2018-10-23 18:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147109 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147605 2018-10-23 18:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147605 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147888 2018-10-23 18:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296147888 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296148123 2018-10-23 18:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296148123 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296148417 2018-10-23 18:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296148417 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296149034 2018-10-23 18:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296149034 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296151202 2018-10-23 19:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296151202 emilianoqfernandez https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296153180 2018-10-23 19:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emilianoqfernandez/p90qi09flf2u/wish/296153180