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MASC|FEMME  A different take on Masculinity.


  I’m very sure boys at my primary school never understood why my uniform was always so clean when we left the school premises, neither did the girls in my neighborhood understand how a boy could get so lost in playing dodge ball, these are all childhood memories that I will forever cherish, they shaped me, made me a bit of a clown and also prepared me to be the leader that I am, yes!  You heard that right, LEADER.
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I would spend hours indoors helping my mum mix the butter and sugar for cakes she would bake for clients, that was what interested me, I didn’t understand the whole concept of running around a field with other sweaty guys , I was too calm for that but then also too rough for them, strong bones, wild mind and eccentric thoughts, if I had played football with the boys from my school, I’m sure I would have been suspended for violence because to this gentle side there is also a WILD BEAST.
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I still dress in all them floral prints that they made fun of me for wearing few years ago, now other guys wear them too, I guess they realized that being fruity and expressive with fashion isn’t really just a feminine thing after all . I keep trying to explain to people that there is a soft side to my masculinity but they pretended not to understand so I stopped, I see it in so many other men but society has convinced them to hide their stripes just as its forced strong and vigilant women to hide away their masculinity.
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Why would you call me weak because I am an empathic man?
Why do you force me to hide my compassion?
Why do you question the strength of that woman who held her head high during troubles?
Why do you want her to show her brokenness when she could stay strong?
Why does society understand when women wail at funerals but give a side eye to men that do the same?
Why do you associate strength with masculinity and weakness with feminism?
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Let’s allow girls to go bare faced and let boys feel free if they want to enhance with a bit of makeup, there are no rules, who made them rules? Let descendants of earth feel free to express and represent their tribes, beliefs and orientations, our boys can wear pink as much as our girls can rock suits.


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"He? Yes, he is not as she, where is she? She is in him just as much as he is in her, let it out!"
 (PATRICIA JANGAH)
There are 2 sides to every coin,just as there are 2 sides to every person, there’s the MASC & FEMME

















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