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A review by tinyelfarcanist
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
While this memoir recounts the author's journey to become the first trans man to fight at Madison Square Garden (for a charity event), this is not a story about boxing. It relies on his experience training to question what makes a man a man.
He starts perceiving his reality full of the privilege men have when passing as cis. He questions what drives men to resort to violence when in the face of a problem. He interviews experts on gender to understand masculinity in the society we live in.
Great insight for people transitioning (or born in) to masculinity.
He starts perceiving his reality full of the privilege men have when passing as cis. He questions what drives men to resort to violence when in the face of a problem. He interviews experts on gender to understand masculinity in the society we live in.
Great insight for people transitioning (or born in) to masculinity.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse and Sexism
Minor: Violence, Blood, and Death of parent