We’re live! Well, we were… We got to answer some questions about the election for Next Gen Men Pathways. It was a live podcast with a great audience and we’re grateful to be able to bring it to your airwaves this week! Our Canadian neighbors wanted to understand the impact of MASKulinity on the election with a deeper dive on some of the conversations we’ve been having. Check it out!

This time last year, we had Keestin O’Dell of Frog Lake First Nations join us to talk about indigenous resilience in the face of a painful and mistold history. We’re bringing it back to puncture the hold disinformation and misinformation have on American history.

Donald Trump won the election and Remoy and Samantha try to make sense of it this week. They examine Americans’ concern about the economy and inflation, and get into how consistent disinformation and thwarted public education got us here.

With election season approaching, MASKulinity dives into a surprising new report from The Pew Research Center on how Americans REALLY feel about men and MASKulinity—and the results blew us away. 

Samantha, alongside NGM’s Trevor Mayoh, got the scoop straight from Pew, and now she’s sharing those findings with Remoy. Listen in as they unpack all the discoveries on public attitudes and the deeper roots of the potential predatory politics in America.

This week, we’re joined by photographer and filmmaker Stephanie Graham to get to the bottom of Pick Me culture. We uncover exactly what the kids mean by “Pick Me” and the ways that women sometimes perpetuate patriarchy. Tune in!

This week, we’re joined by powerhouse author and professor Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson to talk about resistance! In the ‘60s, Mabel Williams decided that enough was enough and took up armed defense. This week we’re highlighting this badass civil rights warrior and seeing all the ways protection and violence aren’t uniquely masculine.

We’re back and it’s back-to-school time! Youth anxiety is on the rise with teen boys struggling with mental health more than ever before… This week we delve into the treacherous waters of youth anxiety with mental health advocate and author Kyle Mitchell. Tune in!

Well, we’re finally inching up on Samantha’s nuptials and it’s time to talk MASKulinity and marriage. Sociology Professor LaToya Council joins the pod for the last episode before our nuptial hiatus to help us wade through how Black marriage in the US has evolved. And Remoy walks us through some marriage traditions; for example, why do women wear white on their wedding day? Tune in!

How have our favorite TV shows impacted our views of gender and of ourselves? This week, we’re graced by illustrious media scholar and psychologist Soraya Giaccardi to help Remoy and Samantha look back on how their fave, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, shaped their own views. Tune in!

This week, we explore military service and masculinity. Dr. Ray Hinojosa joins us to talk military recruitment, masculinity as a key luring point for men to join the armed forces, and what support looks like for them—so many are so young—once they’re out. Tune in and Happy Fourth!

This week, Remoy takes us through a throwback episode: Transitioning into Immigrant MASKulinity. Multihyphenate artist D'Lo joined us back in 2018 and shared his experience as a trans man from a Tamil-Sri Lankan family, growing up near Lancaster, CA (IYKYK 😰). What have these immigrant, now older hosts learned since this interview? Find out in this week’s episode! 📲

We’re getting in the ring this week! Beto O’Byrne joins the pod to talk the spectacle that is MASKulinity in professional wrestling. Would you be a heel or a babyface?? Find out in this fun episode.

Izzy Chan joins the pod this week to school us on matriarchy! The matriarchal way of doing things is vastly different from the patriarchy we know, and this week, you’ll get to hear how a few of these matriarchal societies worked and where they are today.

It’s movie night! 🎥 Listen to find out Samantha’s recommendation this week. Join Remoy as he guesses his way to one of the latest movies exploring the performance of masculinity.

Step into the time machine as Samantha and Remoy rewind to 2018, when former basketball player Julie Henderson and powerlifter Halston Bruce graced the studio. In this episode, the two hosts unpack the triumphs and tribulations of women in sports, past and present.

Remember NFTs? We don’t know what they are either but we know men used them to get clout on the internet. This week, we drop some Modern Manhood into our feed so you can hear who runs the internet from our podbro, German Villegas, and how men use it to bolster their MASKulinity.

Writer and educator Kirstin Cronn-Mills joins the pod this week to talk gender in sports as Remoy takes the mic and exposes some ways patriarchy has impacted sports history.

What exactly is patriarchy? Can community help men and masc people unlearn MASKulinity? Jeremy Herte from the Let’s Talk Bruh podcast joins us to unpack it all and we dive deep into what led him to start a podcast focused on Black masculinity.

Our podbro and Oreja Peluda host Danny Perez joins us for the last episode in our music series! We’re closing it out with a genre that drew a lot of conversation around masculinity and performance: glam rock!

Get ready for our deep-dive interview with Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie and Tyler Bunzey. Who are hip hop’s actual gatekeepers? How does hip hop help us understand sociology and gender dynamics? Also, why couldn’t these guys have been teaching when us millennials were in school?!