Komail Aijazuddin on "Manboobs," lineage, and its many forms.

Matt Phillp talks with Komail Aijazuddin, author of new memoir Manboobs about what it was like to grow up Muslim, fat, and queer in Pakistan - with no ability to hide any of those characteristics. He talks about the process of extricating himself from the oppressive silence of his family and from Lahore and what it was like to discover that the America he’d seen through pop culture was nothing like the real thing. Click here to follow this podcast on Instagram.Click here to support this podcast on Spotify Get full access to Tell Me About Your Father at tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe