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• Politics of the Walk A Mile in Her Shoes events

  Created: Friday, 31 July 2009 10:15 Author: todd minnerson

  Recently the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) publicly launched our version of the fundraising/awareness event, Walk A Mile in Her Shoes (WAMIHS).  Our launch seems to have re-stimulated a debate on various international list serves about the politics of thes...

• Kill the Indian, save the man: A young Oneida man’s perspective on sexuality

  Created: Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:46 Author: DJ Danforth

  Many of the young men in the Native communities across Canada and the U.S. are in much need of traditional education of the right to express their sexuality and how to accept the nature of their sexuality.  Colonization has certainly done its damage to...

• Two Spirted Away

  Created: Monday, 27 July 2009 00:00 Author: Paul Baines

  I came across this trailer for a documentary called Two Spirits.  It looks at the killing of Fred Martinez; seeing his death as a hate crime against queers and his life as part of Indigenous acceptance for gender fluidity. {youtube}lpKaP6-1Bus{/youtube}...

• Such a Tease

  Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:00 Author: Dan Levy

  In my last post, I took it upon myself to "defend" Entourage, the HBO show filled with frat-boy humour, superficial plot lines and, I argued, meaningful male introspection. Now, I'd like to champion another controversial component of male culture: tea...

• The Importance of Disruption

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2009 18:00 Author: Peter Alilunas

  Recently this blog post at Yellaphant tried to suggest, based on a photograph, that professional basebal player Cole Hamels is "probably gay."  Here's the picture: The argument that the author of the post makes is that because Hamels is carrying a dog...

• Man vs. The Unknown

  Created: Saturday, 04 July 2009 16:31 Author: Robert Bickford

  In the U.S. and Canada there is a push to re-imagine our economy, to be creative and use ingenuity to create a new world.  This is true in particular for those who've lost their long-term jobs and industries that have lost their viability.  It is also...

• Beyond Masculinity

  Created: Saturday, 04 July 2009 00:00 Author: Robert Vitulano

   All The Kings Men, Boston-based gender bending performance troupe. Photo from The Taste of Rain Here at Masc, many of us have been looking at how maleness is constructed within social realms like television, toys, radio, and among p...