Masculinity
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Masculinity should not be reduced to money
The cultural expectation of "Indoda must" (a man must provide) in South Africa has become a significant financial burden for many men, deeply influencing how worth, love, and…
Mentorship, masculinity and change: A township programme rewriting boys’ futures
A Cape Town NGO, Heroes Academy, is using mentorship, socio-emotional learning and life skills to reshape boys’ understanding of masculinity and help prevent gender-based…
High Tea, masculinity and the missing spaces for men
Women have rituals that reinforce connection and longevity. Men lack such spaces and pay the price in isolation, ill health and premature death
The crisis of masculinity and the decline of patriarchy
Andrew Tate’s exaggerated masculinity reveals the fragility of traditional patriarchy, which has lost its social weight
Child’s play: Essential ways to reimagine fatherhood
To bring children up to be smarter, stronger and kinder, fathers and male caregivers can redefine masculinity through playing
Between the lines: What South African stories reveal about men’s mental health
What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers
The ‘weight of heavy logs’: Masculinity and memory in Matabeleland
Filmmaker Nyasha Kadandara opens up about Matabeleland and the emotional journey behind her feature-length debut
Act now to deal with the masculinity and mental health crisis in South Africa
More men than women take their own lives, murder rate of men is also higher, men take the lives of others and gender-based violence is rife
Do the rite thing: Reflections on the transition to manhood
Jeffrey Rakabe ponders transformation, trauma and tradition in a debut that challenges what it means to grow up
Poetry Series: Men of their words
Series explores masculinity and healing through raw, powerful performances
bell hooks and the return to radical love
bell hooks’ intentional accessibility shows how feminist theory can be used against patriarchy
Men carry the burden of society’s expectation of masculinity
We all need to unlearn the damaging patriarchal presuppositions of gender
From ‘academic boys’ to ‘sex-jaros’: What it means to be a black boy in a South African township
Toxic masculinities help drive everything from HIV infection rates to gender-based violence. But before we ask, what does it mean to be a ‘man’ in South Africa, should we wonder…
Slice of life: I’m a ‘neguinho’ who is really good
‘I don’t blame them, really, because doing ballet — especially for men — is not really part of our culture’
Watch where you put your hands, oaf !
Men need to overhaul learnt views of their power over and rights to women