MASKulinity Podcast

Continuing with our addiction module this week, we connect with Dennis Shinski, one of the subjects from the documentary Digging in the Dirt, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. We connect with Dennis on the linkages between maskulinity and addiction. Dennis shares his experience dealing with the subculture of oil rig industry of consumption and how tough it is to reach out.

Be sure to check out the trailer! https://vimeo.com/354994698

If you or anyone you know is dealing with addiction or mental health issues, here are some resources:

• Crisis Text Line  *Text 741741 (UK + Can)
• US National Suicide Prevention Hotline  *Call 1-800-273-8255
• 7 Cups
• The Mighty
• Bring Change to Mind
• Be There
• TeenMentalHealth.org
• Mental Health Innovation Network
• mhGAP
• 2018 Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development.
• MyMindOurHumanity
• Global Mental Health Peer Network
• 18percent

We're onto the next module: addiction. Men are twice as likely to be addicted to substances as women are. In our introduction episode, we start by getting the hard facts on the connection between MASKulinity and addiction. Justin Lioi unpacks how substance use compensates for menWe follow it up with the people! New York City residents lend their voices to the conversation, defining addiction, making the link with expectations on men and what advice they would give.

This week on MASKulinity, we ask some (new and native) New Yorkers to explore what they've learned about masculinity in relationships and what it can expand into. What does it look like to let those notions go and what's expected from a partner? Can one be a man's man and be vulnerable? We also get into whether women actually practice what they preach when they say they want vulnerable men! Tune. In.

This week on MASKulinity, we are joined by Robert Kandell, business coach, MANtor, author of the book unHIDDEN: a Book for Men and Those Confused by Them. In this episode, we continue to explore how emotional stoicism impacts relationships. Whether it's a sexless relationship, being disconnected, there is an undercurrent of maskulinity hindering authenticity and vulnerability. Robert Kandell walks us through some practical tools for men, contextualizing the shift in gender roles: have men been empowered to deal with these changes?? How can men to rise up to meet women's new power, and women create safe spaces for men to share themselves? Tune in!

We’re talking about relationships! It’s a new day these days! We’re looking at masculinity in a whole new way. But how has that affected our intimate relationships? MASKulinity is asking all the questions…Does the performance of masculinity drive a wedge in relationships? What’s behind masculine partners being emotionless? Do expectations of traditional manhood allow men to be supported in relationships? We’re going in.

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This week, we continue with our sex module and a few responsible citizens join MASKulinity for our first mini field study, to lend their thoughts and experiences with sex! We discuss how humans learn about sex, and the impact that early messaging can have on our understandings of what sexual partners should provide. What is expected of masculine partners and feminine partners during sex, and is it possible to keep patriarchy out of the bedroom?! We get into it all of it this week on MASKulinity! Shout out to our participants! Send questions to [email protected]

MASKulinity Podcast is back and continues with the sex module this week. Following all the commotion about abortion bans, Sex educator and performance artist Wazina Zondon, and former COO of the National Institute of Reproductive Health (not Rights!) Andrew Stern, join the show this week to examine men's understanding of their role in reproduction and in reproductive rights. 

MASKulinity is still talking about sex. This time with an expert. Zat Baraka, men's life and sex coach, joins Samantha and Remoy this week to share what men deal with when it comes to sex. The three explore how men's relationships to their bodies and more specifically to their sex abilities play into performing masculinity and how embracing a new perspective on masculinity can lead to freedom and great sex for them and their partners! Tune in for some tips on how to support your masculine partners as well!

Samantha and Remoy are back!! This season MASKulinity focuses on deconstructing the performance of masculinity in specific spaces and aspects of life, starting with S.E.X. Our culture has such shame around it and before they talk to the experts this season, Samantha and Remoy share their own experiences and how they've come to grips with the ways they personally have been complicit in upholding maskulinity through sex.

Continuing with fatherhood this preseason, Remoy and Samantha meld minds with Pulitzer prize winning-author Greg Pardlo, on his book Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America. His father was one of the 11,000 air traffic controllers fired by Ronald Reagan in 1981, and with this book, Pardlo paints a vivid picture of his family life growing up, providing intimate insight into the connection between masculinity and labor in American society with the fallout of his father's career. The three look at the intersection blackness, masculinity and labor, then addiction, and how a man's sense of self can be based on everything outside of himself.