“Our manhood was defined by our acquisition.” (The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison) My first pair of “expensive” basketball shoes came right before my eighth birthday. It was near the tail end of my family’s annual back-to-school […][…]
The structure of society, intended to create borders constraining where appropriate behavior begins and ends, was composed and reified from a masculine perspective. Thus, forces serving to subvert that structure are most often feminine in […][…]
