58 min
Episode QS11: Meredith Talusan + Alok Vaid-Menon (August 6, 2020) The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast
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Award-winning author and journalist Meredith Talusan’s talks about her memoir Fairest — a coming of age story about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America — with her friend (and former roommate), writer and performance artist Alok. Topics of conversation included combating the white cis gaze, different constellations of gender, and the multiplicity of truth, with plenty of warmth and humor in the mix. Recorded May 26, 2020.
Award-winning author and journalist Meredith Talusan’s talks about her memoir Fairest — a coming of age story about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America — with her friend (and former roommate), writer and performance artist Alok. Topics of conversation included combating the white cis gaze, different constellations of gender, and the multiplicity of truth, with plenty of warmth and humor in the mix. Recorded May 26, 2020.
58 min