6/22/2023 0 Comments A lucky man jamel brinkleyIt’s interesting for me to see people try to pull themselves out of the way that they’ve been trained, or explore the way that they’ve been trained to be male, and masculine, and what have you. That’s something that’s hard to shrug off and let go of. You come up in a family, in a household, and you go to school, and you’re taught in those environments how to be male, how to be masculine, how to be a boy. I think of childhood and boyhood as almost like a training ground for what it means to occupy your identity categories. So it’s alive, in the same way the present is alive. And I keep having a new perspective on it, and every time I think about it, it’s slightly different. What happened then is a thing that keeps happening. And so what happened back then isn’t some static thing that explains the way I am now. Jamel Brinkley: I’m interested in the way in which memory-the way that we think about the past-is a re-creation of the past, how the past keeps happening. Moss Turpan: Many of the protagonists in these stories are boys on the cusp of some sort of maturity, and most of the adult protagonists we encounter are preoccupied with their boyhoods, dealing with or examining experiences from that time in their lives.
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