Thomas Page McBee
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Modern Man Defined
Yesterday, Rumpus columnist Thomas Page McBee kicked off his new series, “The American Man,” over at the Pacific Standard. Featuring “gonzo reporting from barber shops, boxing gyms, frat houses, and other bastions of masculinity in an effort to define what…
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SELF-MADE MAN #30: Tenderness
I might inject testosterone every Thursday, but each man here is his own snowflake mix of glory days and Hail Mary second chances.
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SELF-MADE MAN #29: Ghosts
I dodge taxis and drunk college kids near Astor Place and think how sweet to be a man in motion on a Saturday night; man formed of needles and a hundred sweaty locker rooms; a man without translation; a man…
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SELF-MADE MAN #28: The Lion, the Lamb, and the Grown Man
The story of the lion and the lamb is itself a blur, as illusory as these hands bare-knuckling a speed bag, faster and faster until all you see is blood and ink so bright it glows.
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Self-Made Man #27: Fool
I’d rather monkeybar across this subway car than turn away from possibility.
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SELF-MADE MAN #25: Risk
I need to be here, all skin and beard and elevator heart, where everything happens at once: the people we’ve been and the people we’re becoming creating a weird physics, time bending us toward each other, nine million stories bumping…
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Thomas Page McBee Now Managing Editor at PolicyMic
Our Self-Made Man columnist Thomas Page McBee has just become managing editor at political website PolicyMic! We’re overjoyed to see his immense writing talent has found another place to shine. Congrats, Thomas, and we look forward to seeing you “refine…
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Self-Made Man #24: Love Your Emergency
As I look toward the East River and my teenage summers, I sometimes see my old body continuing on without me, living the slow-and-steady life I’d planned for so carefully and not this spectacular mess I’ve come, I think, to…
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Self Made Man #23: Serenity Prayer
In this new New York, I’m living inside the Serenity Prayer. I say this at brunch and people laugh but I mean it.
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An Invitation to RADAR’s 10th Birthday Party
RADAR Productions, the queer-centric literary-event non-profit founded by Rumpus pal Michelle Tea, is turning ten! Come celebrate those double digits at RADAR Superstar, a free event featuring Jibz Cameron, Brian Freeman, Maryam Rostani, and our very own Thomas Page McBee.…
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Self-Made Man #22: Second Person
I guess that’s what the dream wants: for me to know that the worst kind of man, the man I was scared of becoming, doesn’t frighten me any more.
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Into the Fold
Shortly after yesterday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon, my Twitter feed was thick with Bostonians seeking and sharing information: Copley station was closed, cell lines jammed, marathoners meeting on the Common. People wanted to know where it was safe to…