The Bridges We Burn – Page 5 – Curated content to foster new masculinities

July 11, 2018 Curated

Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” is an Hour of Required Viewing, Especially for White Men

Comedy can be an incredible tool for furthering social justice by challenging seats of power and shining light on uncomfortable truths. Alternatively, comedy is often wielded by those with power—straight white men—to perpetuate oppression and discrimination by picking on people marginalized by society; by punching down. In Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special, “Nanette,” the Tasmanian comic squares her… Keep reading...

July 9, 2018 New Voices

New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 6 “We’ll Build A House”

I hereby inform you, dear readers, that the year 1993 is now 25 years ago. If that seems startling to you, and the turn of the century and millennium has obscured your ability to conduct simple subtraction, well then (as sitcom writers in 1993 might well have penned) “join the club.” Even as I count… Keep reading...

July 3, 2018 Curated

‘American Boys Project’ Wants to Flood Your Instagram Feed with Diverse Trans Men

Masculine identities can be presented in as many ways as there are people who identify as masculine. The beauty of gender identity and presentation is that in a world free from the gender binary, in which toxic masculinity does not dictate how someone has to look or behave, individuals who identify as men or masculine, can… Keep reading...

July 2, 2018 Curated

Time’s Up Anti-Harassment PSA

The #metoo movement has been growing exponentially. Calls for accountability against abusive, manipulative, and violent men have touched just about every industry in the United States. At least for men at the top of those industries. There is much more work to be done, especially in industries that do not have the support and benefit of… Keep reading...

June 25, 2018 Curated

Want To End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting ‘Bad Men’ Isn’t Enough

As workplaces, universities, in communities, and any number of other environments struggle to come to terms with years, decades, and generations of ignoring, tolerating, or encouraging the violence of men against women, the question of accountability has been thrust to the forefront of our collective conversation. Banishment is an appropriate and necessary recourse against powerful individuals… Keep reading...

June 7, 2018 New Voices

New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 5 “Lala Belu”

It’s midnight or so, and my friends and I are dancing in a hotel lobby in West Texas. It’s an idiosyncratic place any time of day—the kind of hotel that’ll put you up in a tent or Airstream trailer, the kind of lobby that’ll sell you sage bundles alongside fancy art books and $80 hoodies… Keep reading...

May 24, 2018 Curated

New Promundo Report Explores the Links Between Harmful Masculine Norms and 8 Forms of Violence

We still have far to go in our understanding and discussion of the violences of men in the United States and abroad. Domestically, there has been increasing recognition in the wake of acts of mass violence in schools that a common trait in each of the perpetrators–who are predominantly young white men–is a history of violence… Keep reading...

May 1, 2018 New Voices

New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 4 “Nothing Compares 2 U”

Dear friends, I could easily construct many years’ worth of New Masculinities Playlists drawing exclusively from the catalog of one artist: Prince. If you’re a regular reader of this website, or even a casual observer of masculinities in popular culture, you already know why. Prince’s incomparable discography, iconography, and public persona were the very sound… Keep reading...