Brandon Kyle Goodman is ready to hold space for you
Big Mouth writer and sparkling Black queer personality Brandon Kyle Goodman has a trove of stories to tell. Thankfully, he’s got just the way with words to tell them.His new memoir You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are is as aptly titled as it is thoroughly subtitled.
Through stories of being a queer child to a born-again Christian mother and a Black nonbinary person in America, Goodman both drives home the importance of being yourself and provides the tools to do so.It reads like a one-man show in parts — we can thank the Tisch theatricality for that — and ends up an accessible, engaging, read.
You laugh, you gasp, and heal just a little along the way.We caught up with Goodman to chat all things You Gotta Be You, from the first love to the lasting message.
Well, after we chatted about the stars a bit first, that is.QUEERTY: We wanted to start with something exciting that happened recently: your time with the Emmys!GOODMAN: Oh my god.
