Ongehoord: Imagining a New Masculinity

Met Tema Maphosa, Charla Smith (gespreksleier)

Seuns en mans voer 'n stryd wat betref opvoeding, die gesinslewe en arbeidsmark. Dis asof hulle te min ontologiese sekerheid het, 'n gebrek aan 'n stabiele sosiale anker wat vir hulle 'n positiewe verhaal vertel oor wie hulle is of moet strewe om te wees. Die “manosfeer” vul hierdie gaping deur aan seuns en mans narratiewe aan te bied wat vrouehaat aanwakker en vroue en feminisme blameer vir hulle stryd. Charla Smith gesels met Tema Maphosa oor sy werk met post-patriargale idees. Hierin stel hy voor mans en seuns is wel in staat om ander wêrelde te betree wat die patriargie uitdaag.

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With Tema Maphosa, Charla Smith (discussion leader)

Boys and men are struggling in education, family life and the labour market. They seem to lack ontological security, a stable social anchor that tells them a positive story about who they are or who they should strive to become. The “manosphere” fills this void by offering boys and men misogynistic narratives that blame women and feminism for their struggles. Charla Smith talks to Tema Maphosa about his work on post patriarchal imaginaries. Here he visits men and boys as capable of imagining and enacting other worlds that defy and contest patriarchy.