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What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.
Tim Hjersted
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step outside the self-help narrative and confront the system that created these conditions in the...
Tim Hjersted
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
This post is dedicated to men, however you define yourselves. Because right now there’s so much talk circulating about masculinity, touting warrior culture and the need for men to be more manly men, that it’s important to understand what patriarchy actually is.
Starhawk
Why the Left Actually Lost Young Men
Why the Left Actually Lost Young Men
“The red pillers aren't offering you a way out of this matrix. They're just selling you a lottery ticket to become Agent Smith.”
25 min
The Fashion of Sci-fi Futures
The Fashion of Sci-fi Futures
Visions of the future are common in science fiction. From "The Fifth Element" to "Doctor Who" to "The Hunger Games," we have imagined the future of fashion time and time again. But what if...it's all weird and messed up and we have to write a video essay about it? What if...
32 min
Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show
Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show
President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’ve also been popular. Trump has sought new restrictions on trans people in sports, schools, the military, prisons and medical care, and in government documentation. And a recent...
94 min
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
Something stopped me from going alt-right: being happy.
26 min
Trans Critic Has TOTAL Change of Heart After Hearing Trans People’s Stories: “I’d Like to Apologize”
Trans Critic Has TOTAL Change of Heart After Hearing Trans People’s Stories: “I’d Like to Apologize”
Minds can change. This was proven during a lengthy hearing in the Wisconsin State Assembly about a bill that would criminalize life saving, medically necessary gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and non-binary youth. An elderly man showed up to testify in support of...
15 min
Proposed Texas Bill Makes Being Transgender A FELONY | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Proposed Texas Bill Makes Being Transgender A FELONY | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Freedom means nothing to these extremists. If Texas really believes in "don't tread on anyone," they'll rally against this abuse of state power on principle alone.
9 min
From Awra Amba to Ethiopia and the World
From Awra Amba to Ethiopia and the World (2023)
A documentary about Awra Amba, produced by Ato Andargachew Tsige.
60 min
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What does medical science say about transgender / gender affirming care? Dr. Anthony Youn dives deep into the studies, claims, and expert professional recommendations from an open minded point of view.
14 min
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. Sapolsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, an...
62 min
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know.
7 min
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
What would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why changing hearts, minds and culture isn’t enough, you need to change the conditions that generate cultural attitudes in order for changing hearts and minds to have a long term effect.
33 min
The Red Pill Lie
The Red Pill Lie
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as the cure. I talk about why they're wrong and provide some actual guidance from my...
80 min
How The Left FAILED Young Men...
How The Left FAILED Young Men...
Just wanted to get my thoughts on the Trump election win off my chest - and some motivation for how the left need to move forward.
25 min
The Answer Isn't Online Masculinity
The Answer Isn't Online Masculinity
Young men aren't okay... so why aren't more people talking about it?
25 min
The Anti-Woke Guys Keep Gettin Weirder
The Anti-Woke Guys Keep Gettin Weirder
Captain andypants saved the lives of me and my 19 sons.
15 min
The Sacredness of Twoness | Lyla June Johnston
The Sacredness of Twoness | Lyla June Johnston
From the session: ONE, NOT TWO: SACRED WHOLENESS | 2018 Festival of Faiths
26 min
Patriarchy and the Patriarchal Woman
Patriarchy and the Patriarchal Woman
Despite the popular notion that only men can be patriarchal, the truth is that women can be patriarchal as well. In our society, patriarchy is internalized. It lives inside of us, in the psyche of both men and women.
Tiziana Dellarovere
The Manosphere to Alt-Right Pipeline (We Should All Be Talking about This)
The Manosphere to Alt-Right Pipeline (We Should All Be Talking about This)
Men are not okay. The manosphere is a vast network of incels, mens rights activists, pick up artists and more, and their violent rhetoric easily translates to conspiracy theories, making them the perfect target for the Alt Right. - Leeja Miller
26 min
Let’s All Get Past This Confusion About Trans People
Let’s All Get Past This Confusion About Trans People
There has been a lot of talk about trans people lately, with controversy surrounding comedians, sports, as well as the usual back and forth between liberals and conservatives. As a liberal, the hateful and harmful rhetoric from the right upsets me, but I have also been...
11 min
The Neuroscience of Being Transgender
The Neuroscience of Being Transgender
"In this episode, I discuss the neuroscience of being transgender by explaining the difference between gender identity and biology. I add studies from neuroscience and explain some fascinating findings." - Brief Brain Snacks
8 min
Why Does Mainstream Feminism Support the Prison System?
Why Does Mainstream Feminism Support the Prison System?
Can we achieve feminist justice through the criminal law? Carceral feminism is a branch of feminism that would answer yes, but this video challenges carceral feminist thinking and explores alternative approaches to justice. - oliSUNvia
30 min
Why Andrew Tate & The Red Pill Seem Irresistible to So Many Men
Why Andrew Tate & The Red Pill Seem Irresistible to So Many Men (2023)
Male loneliness has been on the rise for the last several decades. With changing gender roles and men lost on how to live up to classical ideas of masculinities, Andrew Tate and The Red Pill Grift fill the vacuum to offer solutions to lonely young men.
43 min
Münecat Debunks the Entire Manosphere
Münecat Debunks the Entire Manosphere
"Well this time I decided to investigate the Manosphere. The cult mentality of Red Pill think, how they monetize it, the narrative they are selling to their followers, and how this can result in some young men being funneled into the alt-right pipeline. I looked into...
113 min
Trans Kashmir
Trans Kashmir (2023) ($3)
Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. Today they fight for dignity in life and death. Trans Kashmir is a film about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their...
62 min
How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life
How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life
Throughout history, people have described the existence of two complementary yet distinctly different principles that make up our entire universe. Some call them Yin and Yang. Some call them Mother Earth and Father Sky. Some call them left and right brain, while others refer...
Tiziana Dellarovere
Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender
Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender
Deep within you are two powerful allies: your inner masculine and inner feminine. These complementary aspects of your fundamental nature, distinct from your gender identity, are a potent source of love, healing and success in the world. Each plays a crucial role in your...
Tiziana Dellarovere
There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community | Zander Keig
There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community | Zander Keig
"Within any community, people think differently.  To think that a group all thinks alike is called stereotyping. This is a particular issue within minority communities. Large majority groups are often assumed to have differences of opinion within them. But in smaller...
6 min
The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich
The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich
Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country. They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
5 min
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
Modern males are struggling. Author Richard Reeves outlines the three major issues boys and men face and shares possible solutions.
16 min
The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig
The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig
I grew up in what I felt like was a progressive society.In school we had broken through the idea of strict gender roles; we were taught that men and women could have any career that they wanted. On the playground boys and girls played together. I am a trans-man, but as a...
6 min
Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force
Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force
It Tethers the Masculine Powers to Life, Directs them Toward Love, and Keeps Them Grounded in Beauty.
Charles Eisenstein
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains
A videoessay breaking down the masculinity in the apple tv show Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudekis as a football coach. This analysis considers the healthy masculinity of characters such as Roy Kent, the developing masculinity of Jamie Tartt, as well as touching on the toxic...
21 min
Brotherhood is the Medicine: How Men are Reclaiming a Masculinity in Service to Life
Brotherhood is the Medicine: How Men are Reclaiming a Masculinity in Service to Life
I learned something important about myself at an event last month, the annual convergence of a men’s organization called the Sacred Sons. Though I was there as a speaker, I decided to experience it from the vantage point of a participant as well. That is how I found myself in...
Charles Eisenstein
Time For Left To Admit Boys & Men Are In CRISIS and For Right to Accept We Shouldn't "Go Back" | Breaking Points
Time For Left To Admit Boys & Men Are In CRISIS and For Right to Accept We Shouldn't "Go Back" | Breaking Points
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author and policy expert Richard Reeves to better understand the crisis facing boys and men he tackles in his new book. A refreshing interview with zero culture war BS.
20 min
Feminine Wisdom: Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater
Feminine Wisdom: Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater
In a culture dominated by abstract, male-skewed "sense-making" discussions, this 70 minute Rebel Wisdom conversation with Schuyler Brown, Samantha Sweetwater and David Fuller uncovers what's missing: the embodied, relational wisdom women bring to processing our fractured world.
70 min
Talking Masculinity with the 'Most Dangerous Therapist in the World' | Jerry Hyde
Talking Masculinity with the 'Most Dangerous Therapist in the World' | Jerry Hyde
Jerry Hyde is a shadow therapist with 25 years clinical experience, who rejects many of the conventionally held views of the mainstream psychotherapy world. He works primarily with men, and has run men's groups for decades, which have years-long waiting lists to join. He has...
78 min
Make Me A Man
Make Me A Man (2021) ($7)
We are Jerry HYDE, London-based therapist, and Mai HUA, Paris-based film director, and this is our heartfelt contribution to change the culture around masculinity. Please watch it with people you love. The discussions and the shared experience are as important as the movie in...
70 min
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault (trailer)
A filmmaker tries to cope with the aftermath of her own sexual assault while filming first-hand testimonies ––ranging from a nurse that performed her own rape kit to a pedophile molested as a child. Hold Me Right follows both survivors and perpetrators through the harrowing...
3 min
Grief, Sacred Rage and Revolutionary Love | Bioneers
Grief, Sacred Rage and Revolutionary Love | Bioneers
For too long women in general and women of color even more pointedly have been told to suppress their grief and rage in the name of love and forgiveness. No more. How do we reclaim our emotions in the labor of loving others? What might authentic reckoning, apology, and...
90 min
EFTH#2 PROJECT SPEAKER TEASER
EFTH#2 PROJECT SPEAKER TEASER (2021)
ESSAYS FROM THE HEART: DANCING WITH BEAUTY (working title)
4 min
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
Contrapoints tackles the J.K. Rowling controversy. Clocking in at 90 minutes, it's essentially a feature documentary.
90 min
The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump
The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020) ($5)
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman card.” This new film turns the tables and takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding – but rarely discussed – deployment of white-male identity...
55 min
What is Work? | Nancy Folbre
What is Work? | Nancy Folbre
What counts as work and what doesn't? Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and investment.
4 min
Knock Down The House
Knock Down The House (2019)
Four female candidates -- each driven by personal experience and hardship -- enter the 2018 race for Congress, challenging powerful incumbents for a spot at the table and a voice in government. This emotional documentary follows their campaigns. For more information and to...
87 min
Who’s Afraid of Vulnerability?
Who’s Afraid of Vulnerability?
Reframing vulnerability as a strength is what makes transformation possible.
Jason von Meding & Heidi Harmon
Speaking Frankly: Non-monogamy
Speaking Frankly: Non-monogamy
"“One big orgy”: That’s the stereotype about the lifestyle of consensual non-monogamy — an arrangement where committed partners agree to have relationships with other people. But people who have practiced non-monogamy for years say it’s not all wild sex — or even all that...
23 min
The Miseducation of the American Boy
The Miseducation of the American Boy
Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity
Peggy Orenstein
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
Rising for a Global Feminist Future With the Movement to Elect Bernie Sanders.
We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...
A Feminist Future
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
The following text is a translation of Marian Díez‘s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation
Krystal Ball Interviews Contrapoints on Her Blockbuster Cancel Culture Video
Krystal Ball Interviews Contrapoints on Her Blockbuster Cancel Culture Video
Natalie Wynn explains why cancel culture is harmful. Watch the full video essay here.
11 min
Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity
Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity (2020)
Effortless Action is the sequel to my documentary The Art of Effortless Living. This documentary explores the spontaneous nature of the Taoist wisdom of wu-wei as explained by the great sages Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.
48 min
The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is The Only One Saying It's About Us
The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is The Only One Saying It's About Us
When Bernie says it's not about him, I see my values and fears and hopes represented in a way I never have before.
Cari Hernandez
Recovering Your Sacredness | Jerry Tello
Recovering Your Sacredness | Jerry Tello
Our society is experiencing profound levels of stress and anxiety, a public health crisis that’s triggering unresolved traumas in many people, resulting in widespread uneasiness, poor public health, social dysfunction, and alienation, as well as high levels of violence...
26 min
What Society Says To Men- Helly Shah | Spoken Word Poetry
What Society Says To Men- Helly Shah | Spoken Word Poetry
"I always felt like men were born with a sense of entitlement in this world. Until now, until this."
5 min
XY Chelsea
XY Chelsea (trailer)
Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.
3 min
'Masculinity is Essential to Society'
'Masculinity is Essential to Society'
In episode two of The Guardian's series on modern masculinity, Iman Amrani met Neil Smedley, a barber shop owner in Leeds. In the interview they did together Neil spoke about a range of issues, some of them very personal, and they felt that they couldn't do his story justice...
43 min
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