Brandy Cooklyn

New on SBS Australia for SBS Life / SBS Sexuality - Men and masculinity: Being a traditional man seems exhausting.

What IS a man? Is it you? Is it me? It's probably not me.
Featuring a litany of Spice Girls references, because you can't keep a good gal down.

"Gentle men are ousted. Schoolchildren are taught from a young age through the example of their older peers that sensitivity is to be mocked, ridiculed and beaten out of you. The proverbial man-bun is snipped off at the root, and we’re left with strong-arming soldiers keen on sports-based camaraderie at best – and chaotic, cruel misogyny at worst."

Men and masculinity: Being a traditional man seems exhausting In this age of “gender whisperers” and Q***r Eye revolutionaries, we have to ask: What is a man?

My newest is with Overland Literary Journal , on "Tina"; crystal m**h as used and abused by gay men -- and how different it all looks to Australian conceptions of the addict.

‘I don’t know why they do s**t like ice. Fu***ng Junkies.’ When you’re doing your Sunday morning shop, she’s in the apartment just overhead, being passed around by a group of gay men in various states of undress. She’s in every rainbow neighbourhood of every big city, everywhere. She’ll make your s*x better and your fun wilder; make you want to f**k for day...