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Tyler Spitaleri

June 12, 2019

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Hudson, NY

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Nicole Galpern

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Summary:

This interview with Tyler Spitaleri (formerly Taia Handlin) was recorded at 442 East Allen St. in Hudson, NY. From Portland, Oregon, Spitaleri is a 27-year old graduate student at the New School in New York City. In the interview, he discusses his relationship with his current boyfriend. He reflects on being himself around him, learning how to say what he wants and to mean it and his need for alone time and having that satisfied through his relationship. He discusses Genderqueer, quasi-butch fem and online dating. He looks back on his past relationships with older men and being subsumed by his partners’ identities. He reflects on an unpleasant relationship in New York and about finding himself in his current healthy relationship. He describes going to a suburban school, being on a debate team and not feeling like himself growing up and finding himself at Whitman College, where he studied Gender and Sexuality and then falling into journalism. He reflects on the classes he took in middle school and high school and being separated from his friends. He talks about #Metoo related issues and explores the ways he has found independence.

This is interview would be of interest to anyone looking into 21st century relationships, internet dating, gender identity, sexual harassment and the experience of going to a suburban school.

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Interviewer Bio:
Nicole Galpern

Nicole Galpern is a video producer and language documentarian based in Ridgewood, New York. She has documented endangered languages throughout New York City and in the Pamir region of Tajikistan. She is interested in her neighborhood, the public’s transition to the internet and what people regard as “wasted time.”

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