Writing
Erick DuPree’s blog explores the intersections of anthropology, literature, and material culture, illuminating how identity, ritual, and meaning take shape across time and tradition. Blending scholarship with storytelling, these essays invite readers to think critically and imaginatively about the cultural forces that shape both personal lives and collective experience.
What Exactly Does It Mean To Be “Man Enough?”
A personal essay exploring fatherlessness, gender norms, and queer identity—unpacking what it means to be “man enough” in a world that punishes softness and fetishizes masculinity.
Review of Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle by Michael Andor Brodeur
Swole is more than just a book for men, and certainly more than a book about the gym. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt out of place in their own skin, or questioned the messages the world sends about how a body should look.