The Trickster Medicine of Trans Masculinity
About this episode
The episode explores the perspectives of trans men on masculinity and societal norms.
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and right moment to kick off this new series on The Mythic Masculine. It didn’t grow out of a plan; it grew out of a message from a trans man named Emmanuel H. Brown . Emmanuel was looking to join an in-person gathering of mine—a ritual space he discovered was not open to trans men. It was an intentional choice made with my collaborator Deus Fortier, rooted in cultivating a container for men whose maps of masculinity have always (at least on the surface) lined up to how they were culturally assigned at birth. But I’d left a note in the invitation for anyone to reach out if they wanted to talk about it. Emmanuel reached out. He invited me into a circle with several other trans men to hear about their lives and their perspectives on men’s work and masculinity. This series is the result of that invitation. You can find the full participant bios series page here. Subscribe to get the full series in your inbox. In Part One we look at the collective cultural moment. We look at how trans folk represent a ‘trickster’ figure, troubling the psychic architecture of the binary many of us were raised with. We talk about the urge to…
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