Machismo is a word often used to laude a true manly man. We’ll hear why its use is complicated. Plus, a young artist finds connections between sexuality and the Sonoran desert.
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With the nature of masculinity up for debate, there’s been a widely-reported cultural resurgence of a very particular form of male identity.
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Eric Garcia has been writing about the ways that men with autism express their gender identities. Garcia himself grew up autistic, and joined The Show to discuss how he sees a lot of overlap between the struggles men with autism have been dealing with for decades and many of the current issues confronting young men in general.
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Mark Pagán, creator and host of the podcast Other Men Need Help, describes the show as an investigation of the “emblems, habits and struts of the male performance.”
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Machismo, it's a word that's been used a lot recently, but there are two distinct origins of the word.
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Nic Owen, a recent University of Arizona graduate, created a film that combined images of the Sonoran desert with original poetry about his evolving relationship with his gender identity and sexuality.