The Abernathy contributor spotlight series shines the spotlight on our brilliant authors. If you’d like to write for Abernathy, please submit your best work here. Why is writing important to you? I write because I feel a need to critique. Putting those critiques to paper helps me visualize and consider new possibilities to the problems… Continue reading Contributor Spotlight: Aaron Hood
Author: Aaron Hood
Aaron is a social justice educator currently working in higher education in the Washington, DC, area. When he’s not focused on his work, he is reading, practicing yoga, or supporting Manchester United and DC United.
You can find him online at aaronhood.net.
Why So Fragile, America?
We’re all witness to a lot of fragility right now. It’s on our TV screens, in our former high school friend’s Facebook posts, on the timeline of that person you followed on Twitter because they said something funny that one time. We have become accustomed to the prevalence of this fragility throughout US culture and… Continue reading Why So Fragile, America?
Men Need Feminism
Whether we want to admit it or not, in the United States, we live in a patriarchal culture (which is also white supremacist and capitalist). This means that masculine behavior is preferred over all others. It means we focus on the experiences of men at the expense of other genders. Patriarchal culture means that we… Continue reading Men Need Feminism