All posts tagged "Masculinity"
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Wade Davis: On Sports and Masculinity
An activist, commentator, and change agent, Davis has emerged as one of the most prominent voices of his generation. Davis is a former NFL football...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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Man in Sound, Man in Place
By Carlos Ulises Decena At age ten, I joined my local troupe of the Asociación de Scouts Dominicanos (Dominican Boy Scout Association) in Santo Domingo....
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The Pulaski Skyway of Our Manhoods
By Edgar Rivera Colón The jet black steel girders arched like aging flexed muscles fill my mind as I remember car rides with my Dad...
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Take the Shackles Off My Feet So I Can Dance*: A Call to End Gender Policing
By Robert Jones, Jr. Real men aren’t polite; politeness is for sissies. Body posturing is everything; real men don’t cross their legs at the knee...
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Introduction: The Masculinities Forum
By Lisa Jean Moore When I was invited to participate in coordinating The Feminist Wire’s Forum on Masculinities, I was both excited and more than...
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Drunk On A Plane: Or, Why I Loved “Flight”
Almost a decade ago, I eagerly awaited the release of Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, thinking it was a boxing movie. It wasn’t, really—any more...
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When Injured Brains Speak
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper Last year in TFW, we wrote about the gendered aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting stark differences between...