Self Made Mann

"...as women wore cologne, men wore proofs: to secure their own sense of themselves, and thus to be attractive." -Wicked, Gregory Maguire What does it mean to "know" something? How do those of us socialized as male in this society interrupt the ways that expert knowledge and European-centric interpretations of objectivity have been used as a means of asserting our ways of being and knowing over other ways? Of avoiding bringing ourselves forward with more vulnerability and openness? How does it help to liberate us as white men specifically to work at shifting this way of showing up in the world?