MASCULINITY
In this section we have collated discussions about what masculinity means today and how it shapes the lives of all people. Exploring notions of masculinity can help us to understand what aspects of our value system might be shaped by cultural and political forces. This is useful because it helps us to identify where ideas that may seem ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ and therefore unchangeable are actually in place to sustain a particular world-view. Therefore, when we identify that these are harmful, it is also easy to see that they are changeable.
Toxic Masculinity: How to be a White Cis Man 101 -Podcast
“From Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly of America's early industrialization period to the "only Christopher we acknowledge", the drive to forgive the transgresses of abusive cis men celebrated the world over for the exploitative power of their influence and the allure of toxic masculinity across the gender spectrum has gone seldom challenged for millennia. Yet it's not the love of cis men that excites or attracts us to white supremacist patriarchy, but the hatred of black femmes. Join us in the first of two installments as we make the case that toxic masculinity aint nothing but an attempt to be like white cis men and we might need a better term for it”.
Terry Crews Redefining Masculinity - video
This video is an interview with terry Crews. In it he talks about how toxic masculinity is an enabler of sexual assault . Since its initial publication there has been widespread critique of this take in regards to Crews’ treatment of actress Gabrielle Union.
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration - book
Robert Alexander Innes (Editor) and Kim Anderson (Editor). What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. Indigenous Men and Masculinities, edited by Kim Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes, brings together prominent thinkers to explore the meaning of masculinities and being a man within such traditions, further examining the colonial disruption and imposition of patriarchy on Indigenous men.
Building on Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous feminism, and queer theory, the sixteen essays by scholars and activists from Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand open pathways for the nascent field of Indigenous masculinities. The authors explore subjects of representation through art and literature, as well as Indigenous masculinities in sport, prisons, and gangs.
What is Indigenous Masculinities Studies? - blog
This post explores the history of Indigenous Masculinities studies and includes an overview of what the discipline is all about. “Indigenous masculinities, as we envision it, “seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which Indigenous men, and those who assert Indigenous masculine identities, perform their identities, why and how they perform them and the consequences to them and others because of their attachment to those identities” (Innes and Anderson, 2015: 4)”.