And despite the punishments for boundary crossing, we continue to live, daily, with all our contradictory differences. Here I still stand, unmistakably “feminine” in style, and “womanly” in personal experience–and …
Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming back playwright Peter Dakutis with a one-minute play, “Action Figures.” Humanity’s correlation of courage with masculinity and nurture with femininity is perhaps one of our …
Synkroniciti is delighted to grant our “Ritual” poetry contest award to poet D.R. James for “Rite of Passage,” which explores how many boys, particularly in the American Midwest, became men …
Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were …
I didn’t know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive violence, excessive sex, was …
That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel …
