Season 4 Episodes

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Let’s Talk MASKulinity, Bruh

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.

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Glam Rock: Fluidity Onstage, MASKulinity Offstage

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!

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When Hip Hop Unmasks Masculinity, Part 2

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?!

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When Hip Hop Unmasks Masculinity, Part 1

Between hip hop violinists and Lil Nas X, hip hop continues to evolve. This week, listen as professors Joseph Ewoodzie and Tyler Bunzey stop by the pod to talk gender performance in hip hop.

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Sugarhill Band? Capitalism and MASKulinity in Hip Hop

Sugarhill Gang or Band? The beginnings of commercial hip hop help us understand why vulnerability can be hard to find in the most popular music genre… We’re continuing our music series and accountability strategist and masculinity scholar Nalo Zidan joins us to talk hip hop and capitalism.

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UnMASKing Masculinity, Music Trivia Edition 🎶

It’s the new year and it’s game time! We’re starting off the year identifying MASKulinity in the songs we (kind of) know and love in our new game Paroles de Patriarchy!! Podbrother and host of Modern Manhood German Villegas joins us as our resident music-head. 🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

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Gratitude Is the Attitude

It’s guessing-game time! Samantha had to get another game in before the end of the year, so she, Remoy, and Jake Stika, executive director and cofounder of Next Gen Men, play a lil game to reveal what they’re grateful for this year.

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Home ALONE for the Holidays

Is your holiday season filled with family-and-friend cheer, or is it an R&R situation? Maybe, it’s just about getting through it, and that’s OK. Our resident counselor for men, Justin Lioi, is back this week to share some tips on getting through what can be a challenging time of year.

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We’re All a Little MASKy

We’re talking about mental health in this unreleased pre-COVID episode! #SameHere Founder Eric Kussin takes us through his work bringing mental health education to organizations, and what it looks like to challenge the performance of masculinity in the workplace to do so.

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Hearing the Warriors

We’re coming in a bit early this week! Keestin O’Dell of Frog Lake First Nations joins us to talk about what it means to be a warrior in the face of a painful, mistold history. Oh yeah, they also talk about Nic Cage.

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Radicalization and TSwift

Jeff Perera of Higher Unlearning and podbrother Jonathon Reed of Next Gen Men and Breaking the Boy Code join us to talk about how men and boys are radicalized into communities uniting in the aggrievement of manhood. We also wade through the TSwift waters and find out how her feminism can make men feel lonely.

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The MASKulinity-Tech Influencer Pipeline

We’re BACK, baby! So what is #boymath exactly and who the hell is Andrew Tate?? Our podbrother German Villegas joins us in our first episode back to bring Remoy up to speed on this MASKulinity-to-tech-influencer pipeline.

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