This piece is a sequel to this one critiquing the men’s right activism (MRAs) from the perspective of collective initiatory experiences and trauma. In that piece I laid out the conceptual grid of trauma and initiatory movements and how they shed incredible light on the MRA movement—an understanding…
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“Traumatic injury in childhood has been equated with a kind of unconscious initiation ceremony—not because it is a spiritual or ceremonial experience, but because the movements within it mimic the movements of the first two stages of real initiation. Understanding the stages of initiation (and the ways in which…
Imagine this scenario (this is based on a true story): A presenter (a white woman) is asked to speak to a group of undergraduate university students. She prepares for the speech and then gives it. She has some initial remarks and then wants to have some discussion and conversation with…