toxic masculinity

From left: Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer and Joanne Lee are teen leaders for the U.N.-sponsored gender equality group Girl Up. They attended Girl Up's virtual conference last week, which featured Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as

World News
Health & Safety

Teen Girl Leaders In A Pandemic: Fight For What's Right, Then Groove To BTS

7:00am July 24, 2021

by Jacky Habib

Four attendees of the Girl Up Leadership Summit share how they balance their passion for social justice issues with self-care: tuning out the news, going for a walk and binging Harry Potter.

In The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, writer Jared Yates Sexton explores the dangers of patriarchy.

National
Books
Arts

'The Man They Wanted Me To Be' Puts An Individual Experience In Broader Context

4:06pm May 10, 2019

by Nicholas Cannariato

Jared Yates Sexton's book is critically important to our historical moment: It crackles with intensity and refuses to allow the reader to look away from the blight that toxic masculinity has wrought.