HAZMAT : Hazardous Masculinity

CONTENT WARNING

HAZMAT is a conversation game that includes prompts dealing with difficult emotions and beliefs, privilege, aggression, violence, homophobia, misogyny, consent violations and other hazardous aspects of masculinity.

“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male.” (27).
bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (pg. 27)

HAZMAT : Hazardous Masculinity is a card game about hazardous masculinity. There is no singular masculinity, there is, however, a normative idea of what masculinity is. But, we all construct what it is (women and queer folks too) and can define it differently. Whatever your gender identity, play HAZMAT on your own or with others to better understand the hazardous aspects of modern masculinity and how players might perform and define it in alternative ways. Read more about the origins and inspirations for HAZMAT: Hazardous Masculinity here.

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work that men and women must do together.”
bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (pg. 24)