13th AMENDMENT: A Black Disabled Poetic Viewpoint
Friday, February 17, 2017

My Black disabled ancestors Weren’t free by a swift of a pen Way back then Black Codes, Ugly Laws & Lynchings Dancing on slave ships Shackles on our feat shaking our hips Also lead many to freedom Hey let’s talk Representative James Mitchell Ashley & Abraham Lincoln What happened to your ... .. read more..

How Trump Seduced the White Working Class By Preying on Their Physical Pain
Friday, February 3, 2017

By Vinnie Rotondaro and originally published on Narratively on December 21, 2016 I once took a drive on the back roads from Brooklyn, New York to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cruising 55mph from small town to small town, I couldn’t help but notice all the billboards advertising treatments for illnes... .. read more..

Situating Gratitude: Understanding the Phenomena of Thanks Discourse
Friday, January 27, 2017

The people of the United States have a very complicated relationship with the two most recent wars – Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. On the one hand, there is a desire to keep a political opinion about the social concept of war, and whether one supports the idea of a stron... .. read more..

Trump’s America: Will “we” be fine? Depends on who is “we”. Depends on what “...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Originally posted on Masculinities 101 : Dear White Men, This is on us. And now it’s up to us to undo it. I keep hearing us say: “we’ll be fine.” We may be shocked, devastated, disappointed, outraged but we also keep telling ourselves “we’ll” be fine. Sure, “we” will. But not all will, and not al... .. read more..

Masculinity, Inequality, and the 2016 Presidential Election
Friday, January 13, 2017

By Tristan Bridges, The College of Brockport-SUNY, and C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon Shock, surprise, handwringing, sadness, recrimination, and analysis by social commentators, academics, activists, and politicians themselves followed the 2016 presidential election. Certainly there have been ... .. read more..

Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Capitalism Rule Everything Around Me
Friday, January 6, 2017

A Black femme writer and sex worker by the name of suprihmbé writes: “we deserve your money and then some for birthing your babies, for putting up with your abuse, your violence, your terror. But most of all, we deserve to live.” It might seem more than obvious that women deserve to live, but the... .. read more..

Trump’s America: Will “we” be fine? Depends on who is “we”. Depends on what “...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Dear White Men, This is on us. And now it’s up to us to undo it. I keep hearing us say: “we’ll be fine.” We may be shocked, devastated, disappointed, outraged but we also keep telling ourselves “we’ll” be fine. Sure, “we” will. But not all will, and not all are. If you are saying […] .. read more..

In Defense of Masculinity
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

When a nonbinary trans woman named Lauren told her fellow audience members that she felt “like masculinity wasted so much of [her] life,” there was a definitive weight to her words. The conversation began as part of a post-show panel following director Eric Ting’s well-executed #LoveHateOthello a... .. read more..

Call for Masculinities Syllabi
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Greetings, My name is Heidi Rademacher and I am a program director at Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University. We are in the process of developing the first MA program in masculinities studies.  As this will be a brand new program, we are reaching out to scholars a... .. read more..

On Rape as a Symptom
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

This post is reblogged with permission from And The Pursuit of Feminism. By now, you have heard about the Stanford rape case, the shortened sentencing, seen the rapist’s face, seen that men are valued over women in such a disgusting, blatant way. So I’m not going to talk about Stanford rape case.... .. read more..

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