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Every day, I’m lifting them. They lift me; I lift them. It’s exhausting work maintaining the appearance of a hegemonic masculine body and upholding whiteness while doing so breaks your heart and crushes your critical soul.
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Hensley, B.O. (2016). Lifting the Dumbbells of Whiteness and Hegemonic Masculinity. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hayes, C. (eds) Unhooking from Whiteness. Constructing Knowledge. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-527-2_10
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