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In her memoir, Roxane Gay confesses the depth of her hunger, ultimately admitting “that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and soul.” Throughout her personal narrative, Gay confronts not only where hunger is located in the body, but also how that hunger manifests, how we respond to it, and how others perceive it. In this talk, Meagan places Gay’s experiences and metaphors of hunger in conversation with Kiese Laymon’s memoir Heavy to explore hunger as an affective mode of being related to desire. In particular, Meagan investigates the construction and pathologization of queer bodies of excess in relation to gender, blackness, and sexual violence as a way to question what hunger is.

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