Masculinities

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been in the news several different times in the last 5 years. The most recently, they were in the news because Amber Heard was required to prove that she donated money to a charity…. Continue Reading →

This past week, I watched the trashy 80s movie Porky’s. It’s meant to be set in the 1950s, after WWII but before integrated schools. This point gets hit almost too hard within the first ten minutes of the movie: we… Continue Reading →

It took me a very long time to actually realize that while women have a very distinct gender experience, men do too. Literally everyone does. I think that a great deal of work could be done to deconstruct patriarchy by… Continue Reading →

Mentioning K-pop boy celebrities, a lot of people would say that they are too feminine and thus bad role models for boys to learn how to be boys. But in my opinion, this kind of comment fails to see the… Continue Reading →

As a woman and feminist, I value “gender equality” very highly. Over time, however, I have come in and out of different definitions of what gender equality is. At first, it was “anything you can do, I can do to.”… Continue Reading →

(by Mary Liebig) Last week, Bryn (I believe?) did an In The News presentation on an article that talked about how boys who grew up interacting with Disney Princess content displayed less toxic masculinity later in life. This time study… Continue Reading →

*Huge, Major Green Knight Spoilers Ahead* My birthday is on the 13th, but my friends all go to school out of Houston and leave around that date, so we planned to hang out this past Friday instead. We’re all movie… Continue Reading →

The wit and jokes which characters in “The Hamlet” by Faulkner elucidate a more problematic thought on performative masculinity and how it polices the “other.” Race and sex is tangled in the humor of his texts as he, according to… Continue Reading →

This weekend, my mother and I went to the cinema to watch a Chinese computer animation fantasy film White Snake II: The Tribulation of the Green Snake. The plot is adopted from Legend of the White Snake in ancient China… Continue Reading →

Something I generally try to ignore but am unable to, as someone who is transmasc but also neurodivergent/disabled, is the feeling that people are not seeing me as a grown, capable man. This can sometimes be especially true in cis… Continue Reading →

If you’ve been on social media — particularly Twitter or Tiktok — at any point during the last couple of months, you may have interacted with the novel excitement surrounding men who wear shorts with five inch inseams. It’s the… Continue Reading →

This past weekend my mom and I had the whole house to ourselves, and we thought that it would be fun to do a movie night. We sat down with ramen and some face masks and  put on My Fair… Continue Reading →

My family and I are road trippers, and while its good fun, music in the car is a constant point of contention. Although my parents pass around the aux just enough to convince my sisters and I of democracy, the… Continue Reading →

△Kris Wu has denied the allegations on social media. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock These days, the news of Kris Wu’s sexual misconduct is sweeping across Chinese social media and abroad. Kris Wu, a Chinese-Canadian rapper, singer, and actor, is alleged of raping eight… Continue Reading →

This is a personal anecdote about the pervasiveness of white hegemonic masculinity; the intersection of masculinity with race; and coming to terms with my own white privilege. In the ninth grade, I became aware of a simple but highly frustrating… Continue Reading →

Growing up as a young, closeted transman looking for transition videos on Youtube, I inevitably ran across references to an account run by a transman named Kalvin Garrah. My introduction to him was through critiques of his content, which involved… Continue Reading →

TW: Rape and Sexual Assault “We should not be tolerating rape in prison.  And we shouldn’t be making jokes about it in our popular culture.  That’s no joke.  These things are unacceptable.” (Obama 2015) I was in middle school when… Continue Reading →

*MAJOR LUCA SPOILERS AHEAD* Disney movies, despite the corporate hell that they mask, have amazing creative teams behind them that keep me coming back every time to see what new gorgeous creation has come out. So, when my sister asked… Continue Reading →