How (Not) To Be a Man

Wait, is gender learned? Is gender Nurture over Nature? Can you unlearn gender? Modern Manhood, a Next Gen Men-supported podcast now celebrating its fifth anniversary, is proud to announce the launch of a new season, which premiered May 20th.

Join us as we attempt to explore, unpack, learn or unlearn the answers to these questions over a series of narrative episodes. We’ve named the season “How to be a Man.”

In the podcast, we will work to slice through the different ways gender — primarily masculinity — is educated and socialized to individuals throughout their lifetime. Each episode looks at a different age range for a person, examines and parses out different previously unidentified ways gender is socialized through those particular years. For example, how does physical touch change through the genders over a lifetime and how much of that can be unlearned? Are our favorite colors our favorite colors or has our favorite color gendered us? How do we break these perpetuating cycles of gendering?

You could assume that gender socialization starts in the early years of childhood. What Modern Manhood finds in its premier episode is that gender socialization happens even before a child is born. It starts unwittingly with the parents and their village. Then as we’ll hear in the final episode of this series, this gendered socialization cycle almost naturally repeats itself. For better or worse.

Modern Manhood is produced and hosted by German Villegas in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. But this is a total cross-continent virtual production. Working alongside him, the team making up the Next Gen Men Podcast Network is comprised of Danny Pérez, based in Quito, Ecuador, who brings his expertise in sound design and audio editing and also leads the team of Oreja Peluda (“Hairy Ear”), the NGM-backed, Spanish-language podcast.

Rounding out the team creating Modern Manhood and Oreja Peluda and making up NGM PodNet is producer Samantha Nzessi, who hails from outside of Oakland, California, and producer Remoy Philip, who is working from Brooklyn, New York.

Next Gen Men, the Canadian non-profit that is helping lead the conversations men & boys need to have, but too often don’t. Next Gen Men’s mission is to engage, educate, and empower people on gender equality, mental wellbeing, healthy relationships and positive masculinities.

Modern Manhood and our new, fifth-anniversary season, “How to Be a Man”, is available on all major podcast platforms beginning on May 20th. Subscribe now and learn more about the Next Gen Men Podcast Network at nextgenmen.ca/listen.

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