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\u201cWe get to choose what kind of men to be in life. The question is, \u2018what kind of man will you be?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It has been 6 years since Richie Reseda was released from prison and 6 years since the documentary The Feminist on Cellblock Y<\/i> <\/a>was released on CNN. On October 3, 2024, Wilkinson College,<\/a> the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/a>, Delp-Wilkinson Peace Lecture Series<\/a>, Department of Sociology<\/a>, and MA International Studies <\/a>programs hosted a screening of the documentary and a follow-up Q&A with Reseda, and two, also previously incarcerated at the same facility as Reseda as part of Wilkinson’s Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Gender and Sexuality Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Feminist on Cellblock Y<\/i> follows a group of inmates at an all-male prison in Soledad, California, as they go through an inmate-led program called Success Stories<\/a>. This is a 12-week program that aims to build \u201ca world free of prisons and patriarchy.\u201d Founded by Reseda and Charles Berry, Success Stories is a curriculum designed to help inmates identify and deconstruct patriarchy, and unpack what it really <\/i>means to be a feminist. Through feminist literature from authors like Bell Hooks, and facilitated discussion, the program \u201cchallenges men to confront patriarchy as a means of rehabilitation,\u201d according to the documentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to be connected,\u201d Reseda said. \u201cIt makes sense why people are anti-feminist. The world is anti-feminist\u2026if [someone] is against what I\u2019m saying, their thinking is in the patriarchy,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a young age, many men are taught that they\u2019re expected to be a certain way.<\/p>\n

Once, as a kid in school, Success Stories participant Benjamin* got teased by a boy twice his size for his outfit. As a response, Benjamin fought him. Subsequently, he got arrested. Benjamin explained that because he was always taught that to be a man, you needed to assert yourself, physically. And when your insecurities are threatened, physical dominance is the answer. \u201cWe\u2019re told we have to be tough guys,\u201d Benjamin said. \u201cBy the time I was told that I didn\u2019t have to be, it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the inmates in this program shared this same sentiment: to be a man, you need to embrace toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n

The painful costs of being dominated by the patriarchy include toxic relationships, life sentences, and objectifying humans \u2013 which then in turn can cause someone to take another human\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

“My students were very moved and enlightened by their experience of the film and Richie Reseda\u2019s workshop. To see men reading feminist theory while incarcerated, teaching it to others, and trying to enact feminist praxis, makes for a unique viewing and learning experience indeed,\u201d said Professor CK Magliola, Director of the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Minor Program.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Q&A session following the documentary screening, Graham*, Jaz*, and Reseda shared their sentiment. They said that our current culture and society is rooted in patriarchy. \u201cWe built a culture around it because the more people that do it, it\u2019s lit! Everyone will see the culture,\u201d Reseda said. But now, it\u2019s time to change.<\/p>\n

Through Success Stories, they\u2019re setting a new culture.<\/p>\n

According to Reseda, there were a total of 2,000 people in the Soledad prison yard. Six hundred of those men graduated from this program. This program gave men the opportunity to look inwardly and address how the patriarchy has influenced their lifestyles personally. Once more and more men see the community around them take this step, they\u2019ll follow suit. As a result, the culture will continue to shift.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy opening up that unhealed wound, someone else is getting healed with me,\u201d Benjamin said.<\/p>\n

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