masculinity
How to Raise a Boy in 1979: Navigating love, gender, and punk music in “20th Century Women”
Unlike Mills’s other boy-meets-girl, girl-somehow-saves-boy plots, the women are the backbone of this film.
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Does the "Collateral Beauty" of Fatherhood Come at the Expense of Mothers?
Complex representations of fatherhood shouldn’t require the erasure of moms.
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"Moonlight" is an Essential Work of Art for the Current Political Moment
Moonlight displays the kind of empathy and humanity that we desperately need right now.
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Music for Every Woman Who's Had to Fight: A New Video from Australian Artist Magnets
Using entirely found footage, Melbourne artist Magnets created a powerful, vengeful video dedicated “to all women that have had to fight.”
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Appetite for Destruction: "Werewolf" Tackles Addiction and Toxic Masculinity
In her debut full-length film, Ashley McKenzie crafts a quietly devastating story of addiction, recovery, and relapse that portrays its subjects with both compassion and blunt honesty.
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How "Fargo" Captures the Sad Realities of Toxic Masculinity
In an era of #MasculinitySoFragile, the 20-year-old film's portrayal of repressed feelings still resonates.
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Turning the Tables: An Interview with author and scholar Tricia Rose
The Hip Hop Wars author Tricia Rose discusses corporate music, hypermasculinity, and scratching out misogyny in music.
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The Violence Behind the Words “Be A Man”
To change our violent culture, we need to redefine masculinity.
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New Documentary "The Mask You Live In" Dissects Modern Masculinity
You don’t get more traditionally masculine than Joe Ehrmann.
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Ms. Opinionated: I'm a Man. How Can I Help the Feminist Movement?
Welcome to Ms. Opinionated, our weekly advice column dealing with questions of life, love, feminism, and pop culture. This week, a reader writes in with one of... Read more »
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