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A collection of essays, personal journals, stories, and research exploring masculinity, intimacy, identity, and the many ways we come to understand ourselves and one another. Some are deeply personal. Others are imagined. All invite a closer look.
The man in the mirror is a stranger these days. Not a new one, mind you. We’ve been acquainted for a while. But the relationship has grown colder, like old roommates who’ve run out of things to say.
The Uninvited Guest in My Own Skin Read Post »
The awareness did not arrive like a lightning strike. It was a slow, creeping tide. The earliest ripples I can pinpoint are in the humid, chlorine-scented air of the community pool locker room. I must have been eleven.
The message notification was a single line of text in a sea of them, but it landed differently. “Hey, saw your profile. The ‘conversation-bateing’ thing… me too. Exactly.”
The Space Between the Words Read Post »
