masculinity
All the Good White Men: There’s Nothing Beautiful About Confederate Statues
Our statues tell us that white men are mostly “good.”
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Big Homie Better Grow Up: “4:44” Sends An Important Message About Vulnerability
Are Black men listening?
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“Speed Sisters” Makes Drag Racing a Feminist Issue
New documentary Speed Sisters looks at an all-woman racing team, the first of its kind in Palestine, and their struggle to break into the male-dominated racing world as they compete against other drivers and each other.
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The Fragility of Silence: Unlearning Childhood Secrecy and Breaking the Chains in Adult Life
Sometimes silence is broken and exposed as the most fragile of things when someone steps forward with enough courage to end it.
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Be a Man: The Disruption of Toxic Masculinity in “Master of None”
Master of None models what healthy platonic relationships should look like for men.
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Examining Trump with a House of Cards: The Line Separating Reality and TV Political Drama is Fading
The line between reality and political television drama is wearing thin.
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Resistance Narratives: Lidia Yuknavitch on Joan of Arc, Bodies, and Reimagining the Love Story
Intersectional feminism is rising, cracks and fissures are emerging, blind spots are being illuminated, failures examined, possibilities getting born. Good. Bring it.
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Chris Brown, Johnny Depp, and the Politics of Ex Abuse
There are many ways ex abuse can occur. It can be happen through stalking, threats, or by using children from the relationship as leverage for continued violence. The method can also be financial, such as withholding the financial compensation ordered by the court. At its worst, ex abuse... Read more »
No Girls Allowed: The Fragility of Gaming Culture
As the Internet began to grow and accelerate through the ’90s and early 2000s, gamers began congregating in online spaces and solidifying the rules of their subculture…Many of those rules—fueled by any number of extant factors, such as sexual intimidation and social ostracization—could be... Read more »
Cooking with Queen Sugar, A Dish to Be Savored: Season One Takes on Slavery, Colonialism, and Empire
Queen Sugar explores the ways that capitalism has depended and still depends on exploited labor, building connections between the enslavement of African Americans, to Latino guest workers, to sex workers, and sex tourism.
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