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About Us

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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

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esther a. armah

Founder & Director, Moving Masculinity
CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice

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simon federick

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Visual Artist | Film-Maker | Photographer | Cultural Architect

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OBBIE WEST

Creator – MAY I CRY? & BLACK TURMOIL

Artist | Poet

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IBRAM X KENDI

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Scholar | Author | Activist

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MARLON PETERSON

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Author | Executive Director | Podcaster | Activist

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DIALLO SHABAZZ

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Global Education Advisor

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DARNELL MOORE

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Author | Activist | Thought Leader

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CEDRIC BROWN

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Author | Artist | Nonprofit Executive

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WADE DAVIS II

Contributor – BROTHA NOTES

Activist | Writer | Former American Football Player

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RASHEED ABIAKA

​Contributor - The Dreaming Ceremony

Activist | Legal Documentation Specialist | Godfather

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RENE PAYNE

Website Designer

Founder & CEO Included by Favor

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vincent brathwaite

UX Design Leader + CEO of Gidens

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TYLER GASTON

Owner & CEO

The Gas Station Studio

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TIM NAYLOR

Director of Photography

How We Hold It & The Dreaming Ceremony

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DAVE MCKEEVER

Audio & Film Editor

Brotha Notes | How We Hold It |

The Dreaming Ceremony | May I Cry? | Black Turmoil

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ALEX KWESI AFARI

Photographer

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ADAM MORALES

Production Assistant

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ROGER MOORE AMOAKO

Video Editing & Visual Graphics

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ABOCHI

Audio Editor

Team Locations

oahu, Hawaii
Providence, RI

Las Vegas, NV
New York, NY

Los Angeles, CA
ACCRA, GHANA

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