Alex Moshchevitin,Sameer Arshadand Andy Sell kick off this week with STPT’s first masculinity roundtable. How does the frog describe the boiling water in the pot? These men grapple with the spectrums of masculinity: definitions, systems, constructs, power and gender play. Does masculinity require constant interrogation? How can we dismantle the organizations of toxic masculinity? Can internally examined masculinity be the healing and balance our communities need? We certainly hope so, and with that loving intention we offer you this week’s episode. Here is to accountability, interruptions and evolution. 

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Andy Sell(he/him) is a queer, neurodivergent writer and performer with decades of experience in poetry, stand-up comedy, and film and theatre production. He earned his undergraduate degree in Moving Image Arts a very long time ago at a school that no longer exists and co-hosts /co-produces two podcasts about horror movies - Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast and Look Good for the Boys: A Horror Gossip Podcast. Andy lives on the Dakota land known as Minnesota with his partner and their cat. 

Sameer Arshad(any pronoun) is a professional linguist and also a playwright, living in Tacoma, WA, who likes to study the sociolinguistics of social justice and the sociolinguistics of hate speech. He is Turkish-Persian-Arab-Indian and has lived in many countries.

Alex Moshchevitin (he/him) is a recent UW grad with a major in sociology and minor in political science. He is queer, trans, uses he/him pronouns and is in recovery from substance use disorder. Alex is a producer, writer, immigrant, and a bilingual Third Culture Kid.