The Recap: BAM Book Jam with Jacob Tobia

Written by BAM Team | September 22, 2021 at 7:45 PM

Here's what we covered.

On September 21, we held our latest BAM Book Jam featuring the memoir "Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story," written by Jacob Tobia. Sissy guarantees you'll never think about gender--both other people's and your own--the same way again. Our CEO, Beck Bamberger, and Jacob talked about how to make the world safe for gender non-conforming people, gender plurality, and how Gen-Z is going to save us. Jacob answered questions about their memoir for 60 minutes straight. Be sure to watch the recording below. Thank you to everyone for your questions and participation!

Let's go live.

Here are some of the top BAM Book Jam tweets and words of advice from Jacob Tobia. If you want the full scoop, check out the recording of the webinar above.

Jacob Tobia

Live from our #bambookjam "My experience in crafting the actual book was miraculous. There was some hard stuff to dive into … but for me, unearthing and reframing was a deeply empowering experience. - @JacobTobia on his memoir, "Sissy: A Coming-of-Age Gender Story"
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, I’ve been figuratively an open book for most of my life, and now I literally am.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “I don’t spend my life pining for a @NewYorker review. What I do care about is transforming culture in this world as we know it, and the safety of gender non-conforming and non-binary folks.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam,“Men and women as concepts are like half fake … and that may be generous.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “Many cultures, most pre-colonial, had more poetic and inclusive understandings of gender.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam,“You’re a bell pepper farmer. You have red peppers for .50 cents, and yellow peppers for $1. Then an orange bell pepper comes along. It does not fit in the basket, and that throws the system off.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam,“In terms of the gender and trans community, a generation is like every 5 years. Which is amazing.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from #bambookjam,“Gen Z is going to literally save us all. (And we kind of forced them to save us and our planet.)” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “There’s a swarm of bees at school. Let’s make sure there’s a swarm of bees in your bedroom to make sure you’re prepared. In what world does that make sense?” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “Affirm the living shit out of your kids. He’s five. He won’t understand who he is for at least another 50 years… Don’t freak out about it, and just have fun.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “For me, humor and metaphor are tools for me making sense of my own trauma.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam,“You have to make sense structurally of things that throw your brain into chaos.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “I tried to spend half of my time being analytical, present-me trying to be above the story and half the time of me being present in the story.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam,“I didn’t think about how the discrimination I was facing might proclude me from pertaining that in the first place.” - @JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

Live from our #bambookjam, “There are a lot of different opinions on what you owe others when writing a memoir. For those you don’t want relationships with anymore, you don’t owe them anything. For anyone I included, I asked people for their consent." -@JacobTobia
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 21, 2021

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