What if we gave boys the agency to opt out of traditional and often damaging ways of being a man?
As an 11-year-old who fought for women-eating-before-men at the wedding ceremony lunch of one of my aunts, I was raising men even before I was aware of my womb. So eventually, when I begat a boy at 41, the bar was already set very high. I imagined my husband and I would raise him together, […]