A Cape Town NGO, Heroes Academy, is using mentorship, socio-emotional learning and life skills to reshape boys’ understanding of masculinity and help prevent gender-based…
Women have rituals that reinforce connection and longevity. Men lack such spaces and pay the price in isolation, ill health and premature death
Andrew Tate’s exaggerated masculinity reveals the fragility of traditional patriarchy, which has lost its social weight
To bring children up to be smarter, stronger and kinder, fathers and male caregivers can redefine masculinity through playing
What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers
Filmmaker Nyasha Kadandara opens up about Matabeleland and the emotional journey behind her feature-length debut
More men than women take their own lives, murder rate of men is also higher, men take the lives of others and gender-based violence is rife
Jeffrey Rakabe ponders transformation, trauma and tradition in a debut that challenges what it means to grow up
Series explores masculinity and healing through raw, powerful performances
bell hooks’ intentional accessibility shows how feminist theory can be used against patriarchy
We all need to unlearn the damaging patriarchal presuppositions of gender
Toxic masculinities help drive everything from HIV infection rates to gender-based violence. But before we ask, what does it mean to be a ‘man’ in South Africa, should we wonder…
‘I don’t blame them, really, because doing ballet — especially for men — is not really part of our culture’
Men need to overhaul learnt views of their power over and rights to women
Hurt people hurt people, but one trauma should never justify another. Men are supposed to be understood;the rest of us must simply understand
Initiation practices might offer a moment of self-discovery for queer Xhosa men
For decades, we’ve struggled to solve the riddle: How do you get reluctant men to test for HIV. Could we finally have an answer?
It’s been fêted around the world, but Inxeba’s smashed stereotypes will cause a stir locally
A poem by Koleka Putuma
As parents and men conditioned by our destructive society, how do we better our children’s experiences?
