Today is a little different. Today we start a new segment at BWBH where we will be revisiting films and TV episodes talking about how toxic masculinity is portrayed in each project. I am joined by Paul Miller who is a returning guest and this was a lot of fun.

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By practicing social journalism and engaging the community, there is a sense of ownership in the work and the media being put out which points to the power dynamic between young men of color and a journalist that is shifting on a fundamental level through my project. Justin Baldoni, American actor, filmmaker and podcaster, whose 2017 TED Talk on ‘what it means to be man enough’ went viral, has written a chatty, kind, honest guide to being a boy. Covering topics like being brave, being smart, being cool, as well as sex, puberty, bullying and being bullied, body image and love, this is essential reading for 10+. Man Enough: Undefining my Masculinity” by Justin Baldoni - https://eclectuals.indielite.org/book/9780063055599

Welcome Michael James Peterson to the podcast. He is one of my best friends and will be my best man at my wedding. Today is more focused on men crying. Him and I have no shame in crying, in general, in public, it just happens. That is when I found P.S. 292, specifically the after school program put on by Good Shepherd Services. I first connected with the director and assistant director there and showed up consistently without a pen and paper, without an agenda, to get to know the boys in the program. I later connected with the high school students in the same building as the middle school I had developed a relationship with. I invited some of the youth development coordinators for the after school program to come to a group discussion with the 20–28-year-old group, and I did another social experiment type thing in Downtown Brooklyn where I recruited some of the 20–24-year-old men for my group discussion.

Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming

This timely and excellent book explores what it means to be a man in today’s society.It poses thought-provoking questions to develop readers' critical thinking skills, and will give them the confidence to question conventions and stereotypes. One thing that came up in multiple group discussions what that a truly masculine man is forever working on himself and it is fine to be emotional. In their individual survey answers, many of them said they left the conversation feeling that they should open up to someone close to them about their feelings more often — and that doing so could better their well being.

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Be prepared: This book is raw and surprising. There is no subject off-limits or lies detected. Sometimes things might get a little uncomfortable, but that’s an important part of getting to know—and believe in—yourself. So I started thinking that I wanted to get people together to share their experiences and then share that discussion online for even more people to relate to, learn from or be influenced in some other way by it. I realized from my initial research that having an informed discussion about how men are socialized is serving a huge need in the community of boys and men of color in itself. Through conversation both in-person and online, my community and I will help promote a version of masculinity that is less rigid and more inclusive of everyone who intersects with it. Each discussion had 5 to 8 participants so everyone had the opportunity to speak and to be heard with me as the facilitator. In doing that I learned just how important it is to listen empathetically and to be willing to share as much as you ask others to share. Today I speak to three of my female friends about being catcalled and/or sexually harassed. We discuss how close these two things are, they can be separated BUT catcalling leads to more more times than not. Great day for learning and talking to friends however they identify, let's talk! Wanting to serve a community that has historically been underserved by mainstream media, I went to East New York as it is largely a community of color in a low-income area and looked for community centers and other programs where boys and men met already.

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I am not the target audience for this book. However, as a mom of a boy and a teacher of many boys I wanted to read it before recommending my students take a look at it. Unfortunately I found it to be very boring and I don't see my students having the attention span for this book. I think there were a lot of great insights and gems inside the book. The prompts were great and I could see myself using those with students but some of the stories just dragged on. I often hook kids in with graphic novels and I could totally see them loving a graphic novel adaptation of this book. Or a possible workbook/journal type book where they read shorter stories and have space to reflect on the journal prompts. As any sort of independent reading I don't know if this would hold their attention. By engaging a group of men, and then sharing the content of our convo, I will be able to reach a lot of men and encourage conversation and accountability among them. Even though I didn’t find any groups where men, especially young men, were self-gathering around this specific issue, I did find groups and organizations working to support boys and men and at least starting to have these conversations. Make It Happen, for example, serves young men of color between the ages of 16 and 24 who have been negatively impacted by community violence. More on them later.

A penetrating look into the roots of global conflict, the many ways it can begin and possible resolutions. There is more than enough on the planet to sustain us. If we stop playing monopoly. Did you know monopoly was created by a woman with two versions? One showing how capitalism takes and destroys and one version showing how it would work if we all work for each other, with each other, turn towards each other. A Marxist version. Guess what capitalism did to her game?

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The system always looms over us to keep us in line. Teaches us we are competition. Teaches us it’s just human nature. It teachers us we have to fight to eat instead of how to make enough to feed each other. There is enough when the wealth gets redistributed. There is PLENTY when we are not being used and extorted. When we are all getting the things we really need instead of the things these companies want to sell us to prove we’re better than or more deserving of comfort or perceived luxury when there are billions of dollars waisted daily by the bourgeoisie. To keep us all ignorant and filling the voids we all naturally get from EACH OTHER.What a drag capitalism is… That’s the thing with starting to deconstruct all the systems we are forced to live under and have no say in. All roads lead to the bourgeoisie war against the working class.