Natasha Zedan
There’s a lot being said about Men right now. They have a lot to answer to, historically. But I want to talk about Young Men. Those coming up alongside us. Young Men, although complicit in their manhood, hold the cards. They are lucking out, cruising along as Older Men cheat the rest of the opponents out of the game. The most important thing Young Men can do is defend those who are wronged, even if it means quitting playing with a winning hand. Ask “Who dealt these cards?”. BOYS
Gregory Manoukian Zachary Johnstun Kentaro Burress Tucker Wasuta John Robert Maglinao Ian Rosenzweig Stephen Oullette Pierson Phellan Ari Korey Cooper JP Lorie Mitchell Weiser Theo Dartois Thomas Tran Pierre Rochereau-Herin Brendan Blosser-McGinnis Kyle DeWitt Brighton Sier Hector Fortun Javier Jesus Romero Maksim Tokarev Thomas Boswell Douglas Houchmouth
These patient, kind young men showed me the softer side of masculinity. The one that listens, and might react defensively, but only as an instinctive response and revisits with good queries and good connections. They showed me how to learn from the world, how to shed shame in not knowing and ask. They showed me to make sense of and feel comfortable in this world which seems so big to me. They taught me that being a man has to do with finding joy in the little things, of making magic in the everyday, and of holding together through thick and thin, asking each other to grow and helping them to when another is in need. These young men taught me to put the performance that is femininity aside and simply be; and for that I am ever indebted and grateful
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These well dressed young men helped prove to me that there is a way of dress that is conscious and masculine. Serving their own looks subtly, they taught me the value of recognizable staples (and how to dress in the cold)
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Some of these men taught me many good things before they taught me the most important thing I’ll learn. Warsan Shire said it but it wasn’t true until they burned our houses down. “You can’t make homes out of people, love.”
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