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Published in: 50.50: FeatureChina’s government is targeting ‘sissy’ men, with devastating consequences
Young men who stray beyond rigid gender norms are being punished by the government's culture war against ‘abnormal...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewChallenging traditional 'masculinity' in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
Gustavo Barbosa, author of ‘The Best of Hard Times’, discusses the Shabab, the offspring of the Fedayeen – and how...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhat are we talking about when we talk about white men?
We need to be undoing the ideologies that make whiteness and masculinity toxic for us all.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy are there no women in Iraq’s football stadiums?
Iraqis are suffocated by a rampant militarization and hypermasculinity.
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Published in: TransformationIs toxic masculinity a mask for anxiety?
What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMacho men only: no space for femininity in Jordan’s LGBT+ community
‘Just manly men’. ‘Guys that hit the gym’. ‘Straight-acting only’. ‘No fems’. The message for gay and bi men...
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Published in: TransformationIf this is what it feels like to be a woman, what does it mean to be a man?
Sexual violence is closely linked to women’s status in society, but changing the definition of masculinity is just...
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Published in: TransformationWhy don’t men care?
Caregiving is neither a male nor female responsibility - it’s what helps to make us all human. It’s time we reshaped...
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Published in: TransformationHow I stopped watching porn for one year and why I'm not going back
I remember when I first discovered internet porn – I was 17 years old. Fascinated by this world of unleashed sexual...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn men and international men's day
International men's day risks being used as an argument against women's rights and feminism. But can it become a...