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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
9038 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. So Ocean, I mentioned that you're the first man on We Can Do Hard Things, and I just wanted to start by asking you, what does it mean to you to be a man?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. So Ocean, I mentioned that you're the first man on We Can Do Hard Things, and I just wanted to start by asking you, what does it mean to you to be a man?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I feel that way about Christianity. Yes. I do. I feel like I don't want to abandon it just because I haven't aligned with its PR agents.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I feel that way about Christianity. Yes. I do. I feel like I don't want to abandon it just because I haven't aligned with its PR agents.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I feel that way about Christianity. Yes. I do. I feel like I don't want to abandon it just because I haven't aligned with its PR agents.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. Dr. Maya Angelou used to say when someone said to her, I'm a Christian, she would say, really? Already? Yeah, that's beautiful. So does gender feel to you, because I understand why language and the earth need to be saved or kept or re-understood by each person who experiences them. What is it about gender to you that feels important enough to save?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. Dr. Maya Angelou used to say when someone said to her, I'm a Christian, she would say, really? Already? Yeah, that's beautiful. So does gender feel to you, because I understand why language and the earth need to be saved or kept or re-understood by each person who experiences them. What is it about gender to you that feels important enough to save?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. Dr. Maya Angelou used to say when someone said to her, I'm a Christian, she would say, really? Already? Yeah, that's beautiful. So does gender feel to you, because I understand why language and the earth need to be saved or kept or re-understood by each person who experiences them. What is it about gender to you that feels important enough to save?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

And also, is gender something that you feel, your maleness, is that something that you feel inside of you? Like you feel like it was born in you? Or does it feel like something you learned from culture?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

And also, is gender something that you feel, your maleness, is that something that you feel inside of you? Like you feel like it was born in you? Or does it feel like something you learned from culture?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

And also, is gender something that you feel, your maleness, is that something that you feel inside of you? Like you feel like it was born in you? Or does it feel like something you learned from culture?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Stay and complicate. Oh, I love that. Ocean, you wrote to be an American boy and then an American boy with a gun is to move from one end of a cage to another. Can you tell us what you meant by that American boyhood?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Stay and complicate. Oh, I love that. Ocean, you wrote to be an American boy and then an American boy with a gun is to move from one end of a cage to another. Can you tell us what you meant by that American boyhood?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Stay and complicate. Oh, I love that. Ocean, you wrote to be an American boy and then an American boy with a gun is to move from one end of a cage to another. Can you tell us what you meant by that American boyhood?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

American is one of those words. It's a label, but it's a label we're working towards an ongoing forever project that we can stay and complicate. That's beautiful. Ocean, one of the reasons I just have been so looking forward to this hour is because your work is so beautifully wrapped around motherhood and sonhood. So much of your art is an exploration of your mother. She passed away.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

American is one of those words. It's a label, but it's a label we're working towards an ongoing forever project that we can stay and complicate. That's beautiful. Ocean, one of the reasons I just have been so looking forward to this hour is because your work is so beautifully wrapped around motherhood and sonhood. So much of your art is an exploration of your mother. She passed away.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

American is one of those words. It's a label, but it's a label we're working towards an ongoing forever project that we can stay and complicate. That's beautiful. Ocean, one of the reasons I just have been so looking forward to this hour is because your work is so beautifully wrapped around motherhood and sonhood. So much of your art is an exploration of your mother. She passed away.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Can you tell us about your mother?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Can you tell us about your mother?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Can you tell us about your mother?