Alex Wilkinson

An Interview with Nightline

In a recent anonymous interview with a volunteer from Nightline, asking if we would always need the service, I was met with an assertive “yes”. More than perhaps anything else during the course of the interview, this response showed me both the power and the value of such an initiative....
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Posted Dec. 20, 2017

We should pity the rise of toxic masculinity

Masculinity’s toxic stranglehold over the male sex is perhaps best witnessed through the prism of a boy’s locker room. Chanting, bullying and witless initiations are the norm. Racist and sexist views are bandied around. To the ‘lad’, all this is an example of what it means to be a man....
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Posted Nov. 14, 2017