SuperFeast Podcast #93 A Feminist Introspection On Masculinity with Oni Blecher
In this second episode of our Brovember Series Mason sits down with Renaissance Woman, Oni Blecher, for a heart centred, honest conversation around Masculinity, Feminism, and Men’s Mental Health through the lens of her ethnographic studies in the field of Masculinities.
With a background deeply embedded in Women's work, Midwifery, and Craniosacral Therapy, Blecher’s transformational journey of understanding and questioning her perspectives on Masculinity is one of empowerment for Men and Women alike.
Mason and Oni delve into:
-Equality for all human beings regardless of Sexual Identity and Gender.
-Lack of accessibility to health and how this is affecting the landscape of Men's Mental Health, particularly in isolated communities.
-How Men's Mental Health is essentially the Family's Mental Health.
-Feminism and what this loaded word means to each woman individually.
-Breaking down Gender Ideologies.
-The grave statistics of Male Mental Health and domestic violence in Australia; Are we adequately addressing the root causes of this problem?
-Male Stereotypes and how these stereotypes are being perpetuated by a lack of opportunity and space for discussion groups amongst men.
-The importance of more women advocating for Men’s Mental Health and more Men advocating for Women's issues in order to create a healthy society for all.
-Unifying together as a society to create a force of good, progression, and evolution for all.
Who is Oni Blecher?
Oni has a diversity of roles and experience within the physiological, media/journalism, creative arts, and academic realms. Oni studied a bachelor of midwifery and has assisted many women in the antenatal, birth and postnatal periods. She is on the development team as Vice President and a Podcast host for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond Media; a media channel focused on maternity health advocacy; to Inform and Inspire people to re-think intergenerational wisdom through child birth and family education. In the past, she has facilitated regular village postnatal support groups and other education in all-women’s spaces. Oni works practicing visionary craniosacral work, Arvigo Techniques of Maya abdominal Therapy, myofascial release and urogenital osteopathy. She also runs The Temple of Words; a monthly poetry gathering in Byron Bay and Sydney. Recently completing her masters degree with a research focus of Australian masculinities and male mental health within a Creative Industries perspective, Oni is even more invested in the vision of uniting the healthy feminine and the healthy masculine through shifting social perspective.
Resources:
Pregnancy, Birthing and Beyond Website Oni's Instagram Temple Of Words Instagram Oni Blecher Email
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