
About Us

MOVING MASCULINITY is a digital village where global Black men do their emotional work. They connect, exchange, talk and engage as part of their collective healing. This space is about reassigning a full humanity that was stripped from them.
This digital village modernizes and digitizes ancestral tradition. It is made up of four rooms: DAMAGE | COMMUNITY | HEALING | DREAMING. Each reflects a stop on a journey of navigating trauma, naming emotions and difficult truths, dealing with emotional inheritance, and imagining a future for the men you’re becoming, while reflecting on the boy you were. It is multi-media: fusing poetry, scripted narrative, ceremony and audio.
Built by a global team from across the USA, the UK and Ghana, MOVING MASCULINITY: the Emotional Justice digital villagefeatures a cross generational group from 16 years old to 60.
Contributors + production team

esther a. armah
Founder & Director, Moving Masculinity
CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice

simon federick
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Visual Artist | Film-Maker | Photographer | Cultural Architect

OBBIE WEST
Creator – MAY I CRY? & BLACK TURMOIL
Artist | Poet


IBRAM X KENDI
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Scholar | Author | Activist

MARLON PETERSON
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Executive Director | Podcaster | Activist

DIALLO SHABAZZ
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Global Education Advisor


DARNELL MOORE
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Activist | Thought Leader

CEDRIC BROWN
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Artist | Nonprofit Executive

WADE DAVIS II
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Activist | Writer | Former American Football Player


RASHEED ABIAKA
Contributor - The Dreaming Ceremony
Activist | Legal Documentation Specialist | Godfather

RENE PAYNE
Website Designer
Founder & CEO Included by Favor

vincent brathwaite
UX Design Leader + CEO of Gidens


TYLER GASTON
Owner & CEO
The Gas Station Studio

TIM NAYLOR
Director of Photography
How We Hold It & The Dreaming Ceremony

DAVE MCKEEVER
Audio & Film Editor
Brotha Notes | How We Hold It |
The Dreaming Ceremony | May I Cry? | Black Turmoil


ALEX KWESI AFARI
Photographer

ADAM MORALES
Production Assistant

ROGER MOORE AMOAKO
Video Editing & Visual Graphics


ABOCHI
Audio Editor
