When I was younger I was almost consumed by anger. My father had abandoned me before I was born, leaving me with powerful feelings of worthlessness. Self-destruction defined my young adulthood. I thought being tough and violent was the only way to be a man, but I was also scared of violence and sought escape in reading and the natural world. While teaching in North Carolina this April, in the early days of the Trump
Traditional ideas of masculinity are poisoning our society. There is another way
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