#higher unlearning

Thoughts on how us Mens and Kens can process all the complicated feels after having watched the movie. He was usually more jovial and playful, but the brother of my girlfriend at the time had a very different energy responding to my comment. It was 2006 and we were visiting his home, openly hidden in a rural area far from the city. His 4 year old son was excitedly playing with a large G.I. Joe.…

————— image source One of many things that became apparent amidst the start of the pandemic in early 2020 was how we were about to deep dive even further into a collective state of uncertainty. At that point it already felt like the social contract upon which we thought society firmly stood was deteriorating under our feet. We suddenly found ourselves collectively adrift in the depths of a…

Someone pointing out a problem isn’t the problem. In this time of divides we need bridge builders, and that means addressing and facing hard truths. Some labels these times as an era of ‘gender wars’, but it is a conversation of us not ‘us versus them’. Part of the problem is that too many young men are grasping onto outdated and limiting ideas of manhood as a way forward. Men like Donald Trump…

An invitation for non-Indigenous men to be who we believe we are. Surfacing: Lessons from the water for men facing hard truths.

Jeff Perera says the rivers of the land offer men a way of handling hard truths that can help us move forward, instead of spiraling in circles of denial and defensiveness. They say there are few better ways to witness the natural wonders of the land of endless lakes and tens of thousands of rivers called Canada than by kayaking through its waters. Thousands of years ago, the Inuit created…

"We're trained to think of each other as animals. Makes bullets fit more easily in the clip. Makes it feel more like hunting. Or a park ranger doing population control. Hermano... we've lost too many of us already."

"How to Fight" - Carlos Andres Gomez