This Fragile Fortress Prologue on Fanzine!

2012-01-19T10:08:00.000-08:00

Check out the prologue to my memoir, This Fragile Fortress, up today on Fanzine!

And here's Amy Herschleb's great intro:

"Thomas Page McBee is running––down a street in Oakland, down a stretch of history, down a thread like an ant in the description of a tesseract. In the prologue of his (as yet) unpublished memoir "about crime, family, and masculinity,"This Fragile Fortress, McBee brings his hands together in a flash––a boyish Mrs. Who––and the ant passes from who Thomas was into who he is about to be. Oakland, California: 2010."

Roll Call

2011-03-22T15:57:00.000-07:00

I've been hard at work on my memoir, This Fragile Fortress, as well as two other regular writing gigs: the fashion/style blog Ironing Board Collective and our partnership with the SF Weekly's arts and culture blog, The Exhibitionist.

If you're interested in seeing some recent nonfiction work I've done, please check out this piece I did in Salon about my James Dean dream and my complicated life along the transgender spectrum.

You can also find read a piece I wrote about marriage, trauma and muggings for the New York Times' Modern Love column and listen to an apparently controversial NPR "Perspective" I recorded about gentrification in Oakland.

I try to update this blog with new work regularly, but since all my new work has been bouncing around out in the world over the last few months, I figured I'd just catch you up with links instead. Stay tuned!