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“And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.”

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Jai Courtney

Jai Courtney is an Australian actor recognized for his roles in various films and television series. He rose to prominence with his performances in 'X-Men: Origins – Wolverine' and 'The Dark Knight Rises'. more

“Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.”

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Author:Maggie Nelson

“I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.”

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Author:Maggie Nelson

“I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.”

Mom Ego Embarrassed Alter Ego

Author:Jai Courtney

“Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.”

Thinking Believe Moments Female Gender Motherhood Arguing Patriarchy

Author:Maggie Nelson