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Recent weeks and toxic masculinity

In the past few weeks, I believe I have witnessed more prevalent toxic masculinity in the Uni environment than I ever had before. Being involved in a single gender sport has been tough at Uni, especially basketball. The amount of toxic masculinity I see on the daily from people on the team, freshman through seniors, is sometimes excessive. In the locker room hearing someone say from across the room "that's so gay," or "you're so gay bro," has made me feel uncomfortable and feel it is unsafe to truly be part of this team. I don't know how to necessarily combat this, if there is any way to, because this is an unconscious thing, something that the people saying it may have been raised around, and I can't necessarily change that, but I wish I could at least stop it. Coaches won't listen, not because they don't care, but because they don't have to care. It pains me to be involved in an environment that I do not agree with, but I will continue ...
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Yves Tumor: Fashion, Music, and Culture

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Yves tumor is an American non-binary public figure, who has been shining in the music world recently, with their experimental sound. The sound being produced by Yves Tumor is nothing like I have ever heard before. I was introduced to their music on Spotify, through their album "Heaven to a Tortured Mind," and fell in love with the sound immediately. I have always enjoyed more experimental music, and this was no exception. This was heavy hitting, emotion inducing, gut wrenching, pure passion put into sound. I especially like the song "Kerosene!" which has an amazing backing guitar track, that really hits you hard. I believe Yves Tumor is an icon because their music is spreading a different brand of star into the world, not just some cookie cutter artist, but they are their own thing completely, separated from the rest.  Heaven to a Tortured Mind
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What has struck me in these past 5 weeks of Gender Studies

In Casey Plett's story How to Stay Friends , there was a certain line that caught my attention. On page 99, the line "Grow assured of nothing but how sorry you are. Exist in gyrating states: Apology and peace, apology and anger," really struck me. Something stuck in my brain about that line, not in just the context of the story, where the line fits perfectly in her fictional narrative, but in real life. We as humans, regardless of who we are, typically exist in sorts of gyrating states. Good to bad, bad to better, other emotions interchanging themselves on and off, but these two in the story felt different. Connecting more to the story, we can see these gyrating states being expressed, whether it be Minerva's character experiencing peace in the past, looking back on the good times that were with the ex girlfriend, and we see the state of anger. The fights they got in. The emotion she has to hold back with the ex girlfriend being insensitive. The gyrating states exist ...
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