“Unfortunately, so much of what Lorde was writing about 30 years ago is still applicable today,” says Gay, who imagines that Lorde would be “absolutely unsurprised” at what little has changed. But a new collection of Audre Lorde’s work, edited by Gay and out this week, speaks to the need for a deeper kind of stamina.
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Girding for the long haul seems wise in a year worn down by pandemic, social injustice, and election malaise amidst all that, Gay is juggling book projects, a New York Times advice column, and screenwriting, plus a podcast she cohosts called Hear to Slay. “I just recognize that, in general, it’s required for stamina.” For her, there’s longevity to consider, and weight loss-“but not in the way that is toxic,” she points out. Lately, that unruliness is matched by Gay’s commitment to fitness tedium. In the previous year’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay offered up her own answer in unsparing, incisive detail. “What does it mean to live in an unruly body?” asked Gay in a prompt to writers for her 2018 pop-up magazine with Medium. It qualifies as #fitspo, but Gay’s version refuses to conform to influencer banalities. “34:33 cardio,” a recent caption read, her face glistening and joyless beneath a hot-pink head wrap. It’s “all horrible,” the writer explains by phone, her tone as blank as her post-workout selfies on Instagram Stories.
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