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Confessions of an Anglo Mariachi Musician
When my partner’s father, Saul, first played for me a recording of ranchera singer Miguel Aceves Mejía, I instantly fell in love with his voice....
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Disclosure
By David J. Malebranche His 26 year old body was calculating comfortable, sprawled over a disheveled collection of towels and sheets constituting a makeshift mattress,...
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Op-Ed: Putting Violence Against Women on ‘Display’
By Laura Odenthal At first glance Syria, India, and the U.S. have little in common. However, even with their potentially divisive geographic locations and ideological...
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Transforming rape culture from Steubenville to anywhere, USA
By Lisa Factora-Borchers I usually beam when Ohio makes news. Usually. In presidential election years, the inner grin shows its teeth when I hear the...
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Maternal Evil?
By Keira Williams Before she jumped eight stories to her death, Cynthia Wachenheim left a thirteen-page suicide letter explaining that she was a bad mother....
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A Declaration: Toward A New Politics of Black Female Sexuality*
I want to begin this essay by declaring my stake and investment in the project of rearticulating and reframing narratives around Black female sexuality. I...
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Op-Ed: Jack Johnson and the Racial Politics of a Presidential Pardon
On March 5, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY) put forth a resolution...
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the tenth time out of ten
For Latasha Harlins For Amadou Diallo It is midnight in a year that is of no particular importance. Somewhere, a leading criminologist who spent all...
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Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Sally MacNichol and Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Directors of CONNECT
Quentin: It’s interesting that Sally and I were invited to talk about masculinity and domestic violence; these are two issues that are often seen as...
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Feminist Anxiety about Domestic Violence Against Men
By Jennifer Gaboury The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was recently reauthorized after an unexpected delay — a delay that extends beyond, now routine, Republican obstructionism...
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Drowning in Wool
By Zach Stafford In high school, I was obsessed with planning what I was going to wear to school every day. The nights before classes...
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Lessons on What It Must Be, Not What It Could: Growing Up Black and Boy in America
By Hashim Pipkin At age twelve, before I had one full year of formal schooling, I had a notion as to what life meant that...
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Fear of the Sonic [Un]Known: Sonica Trauma and Black Masculinity in the Popular Imagination
By Regina Bradley Black masculinity is frequently framed within the context of visual culture. In other words, discourses about black masculinity often consider questions of:...
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In Search of our Brothers’ Gardens: Considering Literary Black Masculinities in the 21st Century
By Lisa Guerrero James Baldwin brought me here. Not just here to this meditation, but here to this place in my life as a scholar. ...
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White Men Rule the World*
By Joseph Osmundson I have spent much of my life running away from white masculinities. I don’t write about home very easily or very often. ...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About American Indian Imagery in Sports: Thoughts on Mascots and Racialized Masculinity
By C. Richard King When we talk about Native American mascots, we are talking about the entanglements of race and gender. It is easy to...
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Hmong Butch: The Antinomies of Being Fourth World
By Bee Vang Have Asian American male bodies been castrated out of existence? Or out of perceivability? Are Asian and masculine simply oxymoronic? The burden...
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The Masculinity Scorecard
Growing up, even into my teenage years, friends and family often described me as a “sweet boy.” Whether from my grandmother or from a girl...