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Mohsin Zaidi appeared on the Jeremy Vine Radio 2 show on 3 March to discuss his book about growing up gay in a working-class, conservative Muslim family
Author and criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi has been praised online after appearing on Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 show to discuss his “inspiring, heartbreaking and eye-opening” coming out memoir
A Dutiful Boy.
Mohsin Zaidi grew up in a close-knit, working class, conservative Muslim family, and was the first pupil from his comprehensive school in Walthamstow to go to the University of Oxford.
He spoke to Jeremy Vine about his traumatic, complex and unique experiences, both as a gay Muslim and a working class student at Oxford. While he was at university, he explained that he lived a “dual life as a gay man at uni and model Muslim son at home”, who snuck downstairs at night to watch
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One could be forgiven for thinking that barrister Mohsin Zaidi’s A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance would be an all-too-familiar identity narrative of those whose parents are South Asian immigrants in the United Kingdom, and typically depicting their family and community denying them the agency to realise their true selves.
However, it soon becomes abundantly clear that it is anything but that. Zaidi’s voice is pertinent as he writes about issues of identity, race, sexuality, faith, class, education and mental health. His story is one that will help others such as him confront their own personal narratives and allow them to feel empowered enough to come out and face the world. His dedication says it all: “And to every young person struggling with their identity. You are not alone.”