Author: Jeff Perera
About Jeff Perera
For over ten years, Jeff Perera has been speaking to people across the world about Manhood and our ideas of what it means to be a man today. Jeff’s awareness-raising initiatives have worked to help create inclusive spaces for people of all walks of life. He has delivered two TEDx talks including 'The Ladder of Manhood'. Jeff was the event director of the first TEDxWomen event in Toronto and founded the annual discussion-focused ‘What Makes a Man’ Conference which featured speakers such as Terry Crews, Byron Hurt, Carlos Andres Gomez and many others. Jeff also worked with The White Ribbon Campaign and Next Gen Men. He also founded 'Higher Unlearning' as an online space for everyday discussions around power, identity and manhood.
Can’t you take a joke?
Is Every Man a Castaway on their own Island?
Why Dudes need to be pissed off about Sexual Assault and Harassment (and Saveface)
Hip Checks and Gut Checks: How Homophobia impacts Heterosexual Male Athletes
Men & Grief: Staring Down the Eye of the Storm by Carlos Andrés Gómez
Wrong Fingers: Chris Brown is a Role Model alright…
Ripples of Change: Frank Ocean and reactions online
How Young Men Speak in a Language of Violence: ‘How to Fight’ by Carlos Andrés Gómez
Father Figures: A Song For You
Why She Walks, Why He Supports: The start of the Slutwalk Movement to help end Victim-Blaming
Beastie Boy to Man: RIP Adam Yauch
Understanding Boys, Understanding Girls.
The Clothes Make The Man: Can you wear a target for Racism or Sexism?
Fiats of Strength?
Scale
Chris Brown and The Sounds of Young Men in Free Fall
The Art of Letting Go: A Portrait of the Surrendered Activist as a Young Man
