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Billy Porter Arrived A Long Time Ago

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I’m done. These two words have become a sort of mantra for Billy Porter. Done with toxic masculinity, done with the denigration of femme men, done with subduing his fabulousness for the sake of employment. Porter, whose velvet tuxedo dress became of the talk of the 2019 Oscar’s red carpet, is an actor, dancer, and…

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Completing the New Masculinities Playlist 2018

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Hi friends! With apologies for the delay, it’s time to round out the final five entries in the New Masculinities Playlist for 2018. Track 8 – Anna Calvi, “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” When Anna Calvi took to Instagram to announce “Hunter,” her 2018 album, she made its moral core and message…

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It Might Be Possible to Be an Ethical Sports Fan

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Will Leitch, the founder of Deadspin, recently published an article for NY Mag entitled “It Might Be Impossible to Be an Ethical Sports Fan” in which he captures how confusing sports fandom has been in recent years. He describes the joy of watching Jason Collins become the first openly gay NBA player, the “mental gymnastics”…

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New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 7 “Emotion”

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Hi friends!  How about a straightforward musical affirmation for this latest entry to the New Masculinities Playlist? Just in case you ever wanted to hear an indie rock song tell you that your emotions are what make you beautiful, that, “you can scream and you can shout, you can let it all hang out, you…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 5 “Lala Belu”

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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…

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

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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…

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