Events
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How do we hold ourselves accountable?
In this session, we’ll ask ourselves how we – people who’ve internalized (harmful) masculinity – can hold ourselves accountable for when we crossed someone’s boundaries. Transgressive behavior is not only done by the monsters among men, it happens every day, and is done by everyone of us. Sometimes boundaries are vague and maybe you think…
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Masculinity and vulnerability
We all know that feeling of acting stronger or tougher than we actually are, just to give others the impression that we are strong, not easy to break or to impress people as cool and collected. Or what about those moments in which we strongly stood our intellectual grounds even though deep down we weren’t…
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Masculinity and the sex script
Did it ever happen to you that during or before having sex you said ‘yes’ to things you actually didn’t want to do? Or did you do things to others that you thought were ‘supposed to go like that’ without checking if the other person actually wanted it? Do you notice that you are following…
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Our image of masculinity
This Patriarkraakt session we’ll talk about our image of masculinity. What aspects of masculinity do we hate and have tried not to be? What parts work well for us or are we (too) comfortable with? What brings us positive things in life and therefore we instinctively prefer to ignore? And how stable or in flux…