2019-12-19
1 小时 0 分钟Thomas Paige McVeigh is an author, journalist, and a television writer who explores the hidden biases and assumptions that drive our cultural narratives about gender and masculinity.
His first memoir, Man Alive, explored really sort of what it kind of, quote means to be a man as he was moving through his own personal gender transition.
It was named a best book in 2014 by NPR and a bunch of other places.
Thomas latest book, Amateur, takes you inside his quest to learn how to box in order to understand masculinity's tied to violence, along with his personal journey to become the first transgender man to everbox in Madison Square Garden, which was an experience that was incited in no small part by emotions that were stirred up by the loss of his mother, how he struggled to deal with them, and how he also realized others were treating him and reacting to him.
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In today's conversation, we explore how a series of really pivotal moments and awakenings and experiences, including an attempted mugging at gunpoint, as well as the loss of his mime, how these shaped his lens on his own gender and identity, his decision to transition, what it was like to go through the experience of becoming socialized as a man in his early thirties while also working to understand how to really redefine the way he wanted to be in and live in the world.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So fascinated by so many sort of like your journey, so many places along the road with your journey.
And I want to talk about your most recent book and also the one before that, and a lot of what sort of like, led up to it.
Let's take a big step ahead of time.
You actually raised in western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh area or somewhere else?
Pittsburgh area, yeah, right outside of Pittsburgh, a small town.
Right.
What was like that?
What was it like out there for?
It's funny.
Cause I just came back.
I'm wearing my Pittsburgh shirt, wearing the colors.
I was just out doing some work out of West Virginia, actually.