The Unspoken Lives of Men What does it mean to witness a masculinity that doesn’t perform? And how do we make space for the kinds of strength that don’t announce themselves? As bell hooks teaches us, love and liberation are intertwined—not just for women, but for men too. And Simone Weil reminds us that attention is a form of devotion. In this episode, we pay attention to what masculinity becomes when performance is stripped away.Why Listen?What happens when the scripts for being a man no longer fitWhy not-knowing can be a new kind of presenceThe emotional terrain of disenfranchised masculinityListen On:YouTubeSpotifyApple PodcastsBibliography Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.hooks, bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. New York: Washington Square Press, 2004.Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace. Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002.Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.