Healing Toxic Masculinity Through Yoga: An Interview With Mark Whitwell
Despite the fact that most Western Yoga teachers are women, we don’t often hear much discussion of gender or gender inequality in the yoga world, perhaps because of the unhelpful separation between the personal and the political that persists in our society. New Zealand-born, U.S.-based Mark Whitwell is on a mission to change that. We interviewed him to find out about his Yogic approach to gender equality, and how this necessarily entails a critique of masculinity and a vision of a more equal world. Interviewed by Rosalind Atkinson.
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Taking Love to Heart: Turn On and Drop Out of Hookup Culture
Apparently the culture of casual sex hookups and “friends with benefits” relationships now rampant on college campuses and elsewhere in American life isn’t living up to expectations. In her book The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy, researcher Donna Freitas reveals that although she expected to find that the vast majority of college students revel in the casual sex ethos, “instead I encountered a large percentage who feel confined by it or ambivalent about it.”
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The Awful Norm: What Patriarchy Has Done to Everyday Sex
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to fight injustice how they slay dragons in fairy tales — find the bad thing, wipe it out, job done. Wouldn’t that be a relief, rather than dealing with the complex internal-external web of power we call patriarchy? Wouldn’t it be a relief for the worst assholes to mysteriously go missing and for everything to be magically all okay?
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Mark Whitwell and the Male Will to Power
This article is for anyone who is looking to understand the phenomenon of desperate men mobilizing women’s pain in attempts to attain validation from society as a worthy, good, ally, and crusader for anti-patriarchal justice. It is also for anyone witnessing those who seek to take down those whom they falsely perceive to be powerful figures within communities so as to claim that imagined power for themselves in the eyes of others.
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Embodied Perception and Criticism of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion
How rape culture manifests in the legacy of criticism of Blake’s famous prophetic poem, ‘Visions of the Daughters of Albion’, and how the poem itself predicted this.
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The New Masculinity and the New Feminism
We are given much information about the behaviour of Weinstein and those like him, and analysis of why it’s harmful. There is even recognition that men like him are obvious and particularly toxic examples of an issue that runs right through society, affecting us all, rather than individual moral failures. But why we are facing this failure of the masculine in the present world? And what we can proactively do to heal and move forward?
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