Clipped from: Carnal Nation (share this clip) My latest Radical Masculinity column is up over at CarnalNation: Masculinity is not essential to the recipe of being a dominant sexual partner. And yet, this identity alignment assumption, the assumption that masculinity and dominance go together and are always aligned, prevails in nearly all aspects of contemporary [...]
Clipped from: Carnal Nation by clp.ly Consuming sex and pornography have been seen as men’s domain for hundreds of years, if not more. I have my own theories as to why women have been denied sexual agency, such as the fear of the power behind women’s sexualities and thus the patriarchal need to control [...]
When Men Wear Skirts December 31, 2009 Radical Masculinity for Carnal Nation At a bar last week, catching up with some feminist queer old friends, I began discussing my ideas around Radical Masculinity and the theories I am putting forward about the ways masculinity needs work. I drunkenly argued that women have surpassed men with [...]
How to Make Masculinity Stop Hurting Radical Masculinity column at Carnal Nation November 11, 2009 My dad’s best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They’ve been friends for 35 years, longer than I’ve been alive. I got a [...]
A Manifesto for Radical Masculinity Radical Masculinity column at Carnal Nation September 30, 2009 Remember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years old? Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Jaheem Herrera of Georgia were both being subjected to unbearable anti-gay bullying [...]