Interview with 'What's Normal Anyway?' Creator Morgan BoecherFiled By E. Winter Tashlin
July 18, 2012 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2012/07/interview_with_whats_normal_anyway_creator_morgan.phpMorgan Boecher is the creative talent behind
What's Normal Anyway?, a semi-autobiographical webcomic about the life of Mel, a young queer guy juggling life, college, and his own journey of self discovery and medical transition from female to male. From his love and hate relationship with his binder, to passing in public... Morgan carries readers through the turbulent, exciting, sometimes heartbreaking, and often funny process that many trans men experience.
ET: Can you elaborate a bit about the distinctions between being your authentic self and "acting like a man? And how one figures out the difference?
MB: I ask myself those questions every day. The trick is being able to know what your own needs are and negotiating social situations with that knowledge and with patience for other people. Sometimes I catch myself trying to put on a masculinity that really isn't me... Other times I avoid trying on masculinities that would feel good to me, for fear of coming off as "trying too hard."
