If you miss @BryonyKimmings & @TimGrayburn here tomorrow and in Edinburgh, I suspect @southbankcentre'll want them at #BeingAManFest in Nov!
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Jude started #BeingAManFest as #WOWLDN 95%+ women. Even supportive men often treat feminism as something for women to sort out without them.
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From last night: all our tweets from @southbankcentre's #BeingAManFest (and others' responses) + concluding thoughts: storify.com/bitoclass/being-a-man-fe...
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All our tweets from @southbankcentre's #BeingAManFest (and others' interesting responses!) +some concluding thoughts: storify.com/bitoclass/being-a-man-fe...
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@SamanthaEllis27 on the flip-side, I was at #BeingAManFest today &it taught me more about the necessity of feminism than anything else ever.
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So #BeingAManFest was terrific. Mixed and generally young audience getting properly constructive about modern male-ness.
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Amazed @southbankcentre actually put on a What About Teh Menz? festival *and it was great*, with a rock-solid feminist core. #BeingAManFest
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And that's it, the end of this day of #BeingAManFest (the only one I'm attending and tweeting from). It will be back, though, and so will we
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Jude: 95% of prison population are men, & many have contact with no-one outside, so if you want to help, be a prison visitor. #BeingAManFest
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Jude winds up the day with some final thoughts, first reading Grayson Perry's bill of rights for men from last night. #BeingAManFest
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Billy is interested to see how outraged Fathers4Justice are: "women, people of colour etc have always had to put up with it". #BeingAManFest
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Nick says white men cannot be victims of racism/sexism, because they are in the structural position of power. #BeingAManFest
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Billy says we have responsibility to raise boys to understand the responsibility that goes with their gender's inherent power #BeingAManFest
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Billy raises Operation Yewtree, and Lord Rennard, as examples of alleged abuse of powerful men's privilege. #BeingAManFest
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Wayne: the more equal women become, the better it is for men too, as it releases us to become that father who *is* around. #BeingAManFest
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Wayne highlights how privileged the panellists are as fathers, having ample time/money to spare for their children. #BeingAManFest
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John asks Nick about self-confidence; he says writer's block is all about that: thinking every sentence isn't good enough. #BeingAManFest
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Nick doesn't feel like he has much masculine identity, though he is glad to have been able to make enough £ to support family #BeingAManFest
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"I'll be standing there carving the turkey and everyone's enjoying the traditional aspect but we all know it's not really me" #BeingAManFest
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In discussion, Billy says he sees 'being a man' as like a role to be adopted, something to put on, like dressing up as Santa. #BeingAManFest
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Billy went to a coin collectors' fair earlier to see a different type of 'bloke' - nerdy, hoarding, "a bit hunter/gatherer". #BeingAManFest
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Wayne asked his son what's better about being a man. Many answers, incl no periods, no pregnancy… and (jokingly) fewer shoes! #BeingAManFest
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Each panellist has given a quick overview of his thoughts on being a 'bloke'. Wayne wasn't sure if a designer really can be! #BeingAManFest
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Wayne Hemingway, Billy Bragg, Nick Hornby and chair John McKeown in the final #BeingAManFest session. http://flic.kr/p/jETfe1
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So, speaking of straight, white, solvent, able-bodied, middle-class men, time for the last #BeingAManFest session today: Being A Bloke.
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Jude says all other groups've HAD to study/understand the patriarchal power dynamic; now those men can learn from their work! #BeingAManFest
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Jude refers back to one of Grayson Perry's slides last night showing the straight/white/able-bodied/male gaze vs other groups #BeingAManFest
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Jude says there isn't a word she knows of for the increasing awakening of men's consciousness around gender issues #BeingAManFest
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Introducing last session, Jude says she hopes word feminism is becoming owned by everyone, women+men, talking gender equality #BeingAManFest
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Michael shows White Ribbon Campaigns around the world - it's totally decentralised so is run entirely differently everywhere. #BeingAManFest
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