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    How Men Can be Vulnerable and Authentic

    How Men Can be Vulnerable and Authentic

    Meet your inner life’s two best partners.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 26
    A Man Can Be Humble and Still Be a Man

    A Man Can Be Humble and Still Be a Man

    Being humble is allowing yourself to be loved.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 24
    Losing aBrother

    Losing aBrother

    He went from acquaintance, to friend, to brother in the space of a year. Within a handful of weeks, we became something worse than…
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    Jay Pendragon
    Feb 22
    The Necessity of a Man’s Tribe: Its Effect on Marriage, Work, and the Lost Hours Inbetween

    The Necessity of a Man’s Tribe: Its Effect on Marriage, Work, and the Lost Hours Inbetween

    Adulthood is impossible to shoulder when we’re carrying it alone, instead of with a tribe.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 21
    Self-Awareness
    I Am a Driven Man, And It’s Killing Me

    I Am a Driven Man, And It’s Killing Me

    Four things you need to know about your inner critic.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 17
    You Can’t Buy Manhood in a Bottle

    You Can’t Buy Manhood in a Bottle

    Thomas Pluck looks at how the state of our liqueur advertising mirrors the state of our manhood.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 5
    The Myth of Authenticity

    The Myth of Authenticity

    How do you express parts of yourself that are less comfortable but also true?
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Feb 3
    LGBTQIA+
    People Aren’t Born Gay or Straight

    People Aren’t Born Gay or Straight

    Deconstructing the “Born This Way” Movement A Decade After Lady Gaga’s Song
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    ᴅʀ. ᴀɴᴅʀᴇᴡ ᴊᴏꜱᴇᴩʜ ᴩᴇɢᴏᴅᴀ
    Feb 5
    Life in Denial

    Life in Denial

    Finding that I was not the only person who experienced this deep discomfort with living as the gender I was born was very comforting.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Jan 29
    ‘I’m Gay’ and ‘I Like Pizza.’

    ‘I’m Gay’ and ‘I Like Pizza.’

    When this gay man’s 11-year-old son comes out as gay, Dad is happy the boy felt safe enough to be matter-of-fact.
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    Agents of Change (@2ChangeAgents)
    Jan 24
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