How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.
One Man’s Poison By Kyoko Mori Feature The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.
On Beauty and Disability By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.
The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity By Soraya Roberts Feature It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.
Why Do Men Fight?: An Interview with Thomas Page McBee By Cooper Lee Bombardier Feature “When I started asking myself questions about my own notions of masculinity. I just felt so limited, so suddenly afraid of becoming the kind of man I’d grown up in fear of.”
Welcome to the Jungle By Michelle Weber Highlight As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.
The Cold War and its Fallout By Vincent Czyz Feature A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Wrestling With My Father By Brian Gresko Feature Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.
Asking For It By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.
The Great Stink By Laurie Penny Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
