Big Boys Don't Cry: Are Men OK?

From rising headlines to the pull of the manosphere, something is shifting in how we talk about men. This session cuts through the noise, hysteria, and culture wars to ask what’s really going on - and what happens next. With Diarmuid Hester and Ben Hurst, interviewed by Phin Harper.

Ben Hurst is a masculinity educator; his particular specialism is the gendered stereotypes that men inhabit.

Diarmuid Hester is an author, activist, and cultural historian of gender and sexuality. His new book The Invention of Man will be published by Penguin in 2027.