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Rethinking Masculinities: A Queer Woman of Color's Perspective
By Muna Mire Within our capitalist heteropatriarchial cultural imaginary, masculinity figures as a sort of psychomachia. This is to say, masculinity has proven itself to...
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Feminists We Love: Van Bailey
Dr. Van Bailey is the inaugural director of the Office of BGLTQ Student Life at Harvard College. He was the assistant director for education at...
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Drowning in Wool
By Zach Stafford In high school, I was obsessed with planning what I was going to wear to school every day. The nights before classes...
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Kill With Power
By Shaka McGlotten “Dig Deeper!” exhorts Shaun T. He sidles up to Chris, a big, dark-skinned guy at the back of the basketball court; Chris...
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The Shapings of Black Masculinities
The B52 bus picks up passengers on the corner of Gates and Lewis Avenue in the mostly working poor to middle class, black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...
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Lessons on What It Must Be, Not What It Could: Growing Up Black and Boy in America
By Hashim Pipkin At age twelve, before I had one full year of formal schooling, I had a notion as to what life meant that...
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Black Men Writing to Live: Brothers' Letters
By Mychal Denzel Smith, Darnell L. Moore, Kiese Laymon, and Kai M. Green What follows is a series of letters shared between four writers who...
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Willy Wilkinson and Kylar Broadus in Conversation: Measuring ourselves by our own yardstick
We met each other over a decade ago through our work on transgender issues around the country. Though we rarely get to see each other...
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Fear of the Sonic [Un]Known: Sonica Trauma and Black Masculinity in the Popular Imagination
By Regina Bradley Black masculinity is frequently framed within the context of visual culture. In other words, discourses about black masculinity often consider questions of:...
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In Search of our Brothers’ Gardens: Considering Literary Black Masculinities in the 21st Century
By Lisa Guerrero James Baldwin brought me here. Not just here to this meditation, but here to this place in my life as a scholar. ...
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Visualizing Masculinities: An Artistic Rendering by John Jennings
Masculinity, like other social constructs, is extremely limiting. It is difficult to find a flexible space to express personal identity. Although masculinity and its overtly...
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The Star Barbershop
By: Joseph Ross Outside the Star Barbershop its red, white, and blue twisting barber pole announced a fraternity inside. Holding my father’s proud hand I...
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“Touch: A Letter to the Mother”
By: L. Lamar Wilson I’ve driven 654 miles without sleep to make you better, but when I ask how you feel & you thrust your...
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Bebop, Jazz Manhood and “Piano Shame”
By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. In sixth or seventh grade, a time of life when most guys my age were trying on their swagger, I was...
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White Men Rule the World*
By Joseph Osmundson I have spent much of my life running away from white masculinities. I don’t write about home very easily or very often. ...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About American Indian Imagery in Sports: Thoughts on Mascots and Racialized Masculinity
By C. Richard King When we talk about Native American mascots, we are talking about the entanglements of race and gender. It is easy to...
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Hmong Butch: The Antinomies of Being Fourth World
By Bee Vang Have Asian American male bodies been castrated out of existence? Or out of perceivability? Are Asian and masculine simply oxymoronic? The burden...
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The Masculinity Scorecard
Growing up, even into my teenage years, friends and family often described me as a “sweet boy.” Whether from my grandmother or from a girl...