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Hak Baker: “Being a lad is dreaming of a decent life”

Hard Feelings — The East London storyweaver joins our column on masculinity and fatherhood to chat about being raised by his mother, his family of friends, and the momentary bliss of the sesh.

  • Music
  • Robert Kazandjian
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In photos: Lives of solitude at the world’s edge

Coirón — Pie Aerts’s new photobook documents years spent in close quarters with puesteros in Patagonia – a group of aging gauchos who live almost completely isolated existences.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Joe James: “I will never be absent in my children’s lives because I know it doesn’t feel nice”

Hard Feelings — As the silky MC prepares to release his debut album ‘The Ends Never Ends’, he joins our column on fatherhood and masculinity to discuss leaving his childhood home at 16, the manosphere and his risk-embracing approach to life.

  • Music
  • Robert Kazandjian

Louis Theroux’s ‘Manosphere’ shows men aren’t the problem, platforms are

No Ws for Good Men — The journalist’s new documentary sees him dive headfirst into the toxicities and machinations of the male influencer economy. But when young creators are monetarily incentivised to make more and more outrageous content, who really is to blame?

  • Culture
  • Emma Garland

Jodie Ounsley: “Sometimes your biggest strength is admitting when you’re struggling”

Hard Feelings — Fury from the latest generation of Gladiators joins our column on masculinity, speaking to Robert Kazandjian about her new book, her close relationship with her late father, and being a role model for both young boys and girls.

  • Sport
  • Robert Kazandjian
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Scorcher: “There was anger towards the establishment”

Hard Feelings — The grime originator joins our column on masculinity and fatherhood to catch up with his old school friend Rob Kazandjian. He talks about his relationship with his dad, raising his own children, and what he learnt from his time in prison.

  • Music
  • Robert Kazandjian
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“Why ask mum? Mum doesn’t have a six pack”: Sky Yang on teen Google entanglement

Dear Google — The ESEA filmmaker’s latest piece explores coming-of-age in the information era, along with the added tension of racial dynamics in a predominantly white world. Here, he explains how and why he made it. 

  • Culture
  • Sky Yang
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Jake Hanrahan: “Boys can cry, but we don’t all fucking want to”

Hard Feelings — In the latest edition of our column on masculinity and fatherhood, Rob Kazandjian speaks to the conflict filmmaker-journalist and Popular Front founder about his childhood, the found family and community at his Muay Thai gym, and the “complete counterculture” of ‘no rules’ fighting.

  • Culture
  • Robert Kazandjian
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Alex Kazemi’s Y2K period novel reminds us that the manosphere is nothing new

New Millennium Boyz — Replete with MTV and endless band t-shirt references, the book follows three teenage boys living in 1999 USA as they descend into a pit of darkness. We spoke to its author about masculinity, the accelerated aging of teenagers, and the rebirth of subcultures in the algorithm age.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Frazer Clarke: “I had a hole in my leg, I’m very lucky to be alive”

Hard Feelings — For our interview column on masculinity and fatherhood, the Olympic boxing medallist speaks to Robert Kazandjian about hard graft, the fear and triumph of his first fight, and returning to the ring after being stabbed on a night out.

  • Sport
  • Robert Kazandjian
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Krept & Konan: “Being tough is indoctrinated into us”

Hard Feelings — In the latest from our interview column exploring fatherhood and masculinity, UK rap’s most successful double act reflect on loss, being vulnerable in their music, and how having a daughter has got Krept doing things he’d never have imagined.

  • Music
  • Robert Kazandjian

Sarah Jaffe: “The sense of anger amongst some men is masking a form of grief”

Our latest Hard Feelings column features a raw and powerful interview with the American author exploring grief as a prism through which to understand the world and the people, systems, relationships and communities within it in.

  • Daddy Issues
  • Robert Kazandjian

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