Let's Talk Bruh

Here's something we all can relate to: being in a program, workshop, or seminar designed to help you grow as a man, but feeling like it's missing the mark.  When met with that frustration, Richard "Reseda" Vargas responded in a major way in the most unlikely of settings and circumstances. In this episode we review the CNN Documentary, "The Feminist on Cellblock Y" documenting a program started by Richard a former inmate at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad California designed to deconstruct toxic masculinity and patriarchy. And if hearing that isn't enough for you to press play, we even had the opportunity to interview the director of the film, Contessa Gayles (formerly of CNN) and producer Emma Lacey-Bordeaux to ask them a few questions that we couldn't get answers to during our own discussion. Just when you think you can't reach someone in your life struggling with their version of masculinity, think again. The blueprint has been provided through this documentary. Check out our episode and the d

Before we get to the hard hitting topics such as what black men can do to better support black women, black men in therapy and more, Jeremy and Kyr have a venting session in which Jeremy has a breakthrough and Kyr calls out a friend. 

#LetsTalkBruh is officially LIVE, but first let's provide y'all w/ a bit of context for the first episode.  Toxic masculinity created by patriarchy distorts our visions of what healthy masculinity can look like. So for that reason we wanted to start this podcast at the foundation. This episode is personal and episodes to come will be even more personal.  We wanted to bring y'all in to gain a sense of WHO WE ARE and explain what our own personal definitions of masculinity are today. We attempted to go beyond some of the common notions of masculinity (provider, protector, etc) but at the same time let yall know that we are indeed still learning, growing and trying to unlearn the #problematic or toxic versions of masculinity and hypermasculinity that we grew up believing in and attempting to perform.    You'll hear us tell a few stories of how we tried to perform hypermasculinity in high school & college (Yikes) and talk about our shifts to creating a version of masculinity that works for us today.  We even

What is Let's Talk Bruh? A new podcast on Black Masculinity coming June 2018.