All posts by Guest Contributor
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Confessions of a Black Morrissey Fan
By Joshua Alston This week, Morrissey announced that he is canceling the remainder of his North American tour, due to an ongoing battle with a bleeding...
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Feminist in My Kitchen
By Nilofar Ansher The Romantic Tedium of Cooking Our notions of love and nurture are bound with the flavor, texture and warmth of food cooked...
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Courageous Dispatches
By Lisa Jean Moore While today marks the end of the weeklong TFW Forum on Masculinities, the reverberations of the impressive, brave, and breathtaking collection...
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Race, Class, Masculinities and Violence against Women in South Africa
By Maria Hengeveld On 2 February a security guard found the 17 year old coloured (mixed descent) working class girl Anene Booysen on a construction...
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Members Only
By David Serlin In spring 1983, the National Rifle Association published an advertisement featuring 16-year-old Brian Kubricky proudly displaying both his rifle and his disability...
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Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Sally MacNichol and Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Directors of CONNECT
Quentin: It’s interesting that Sally and I were invited to talk about masculinity and domestic violence; these are two issues that are often seen as...
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Feminist Anxiety about Domestic Violence Against Men
By Jennifer Gaboury The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was recently reauthorized after an unexpected delay — a delay that extends beyond, now routine, Republican obstructionism...
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Taking the white man-boy seriously
By Kyle Kusz The white man-boy is the most important cultural figure in America today. Hyperbole? Maybe. But, allow me to make a case that...
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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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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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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...