{"id":27336,"date":"2024-12-05T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2024-12-06T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:01:20","slug":"how-to-decenter-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/12\/05\/how-to-decenter-men\/","title":{"rendered":"How to decenter men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to decenter men\" class=\"wp-image-27335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW120524-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to decenter men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps one way to decenter men in your daily life is to focus on building strong relationships with friends &#8211; especially female friends. Podcasters Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman wrote a book called &#8220;Big Friendship&#8221; a few years ago about the work that goes into sustaining those relationships (bit.ly\/BigFriendshipBook), and Rhaina Cohen&#8217;s more recent &#8220;The Other Significant Others&#8221; considers the way our world could expand if we picked our friends to be our life partners (bit.ly\/OtherSignificantOthersBook). Decentering men in other areas, such as workplaces or academia, requires tackling some entrenched historical systems. You might find this article on &#8220;Rooting Out the Masculine Defaults in Your Workplace,&#8221; which was written by two psychologists, an interesting place to start (bit.ly\/MasculineDefaults).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one way to decenter men in your daily life is to focus on building strong relationships with friends &#8211; especially female friends. Podcasters Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman wrote a book called &#8220;Big Friendship&#8221; a few years ago about the work that goes into sustaining those relationships (bit.ly\/BigFriendshipBook), and Rhaina Cohen&#8217;s more recent &#8220;The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/12\/05\/how-to-decenter-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to decenter men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27352,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions\/27352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}