As a psychologist and feminist ethnographer of gender, sexuality, and globalization, I intend to examine and deconstruct the ways in which toxic masculinities have swept through current societies, solidifying hegemonic masculine superiority while creating new forms of marginalities for non-cisgender and sexual minority individuals. I also attend to the predominant dynamics and mechanisms that undercut the capacity for the collective realization of the declining gendered possibilities in current society. By questioning and deconstructing toxic masculinity from a global perspective, this project delineates and presents the transnational creation of the valorization of masculinity and degradation of other forms of gender identity and expressions (e.g., femininity) in order to open up new possibilities for marginalized gendered subjectivities. I select the US and Chinese societies as my focus based on my own interests and expertise as well as current economic, political, and socio-cultural considerations across the globe. I will utilize and combine images, pictures, statistics, and other textual and visual resources in newspaper, popular magazine, and other media platforms to create the visualization of toxic masculinity.
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