MensCraft has launched a new postcard project to coincide with this year’s International Men’s Day. We’ve been asking the men we support and engage with to answer one question: where do you feel you most belong?
Prevention and Positive Activities Team Lead, Ed Roberts, sees the project as a way to ‘bring together a physical and virtual collection of personal messages to show the various roles and definitions of men’.
From the postcards completed to-date, we’ve been startled, humbled and confronted by some of these messages. Ed says, ‘it can be a struggle for men to articulate and describe their purpose, their role – when and where it is that they truly matter and are meant to be. The question is simple, but men can be conflicted and challenged in answering it’.
We will be rolling out the postcard project over the coming weeks and months, sharing some of the responses as we go. Ed describes our aspiration for the project to contribute to important and ever-shifting ‘conversations about men as fathers, sons, brothers, partners, colleagues and friends; male psychology, relationships and expectations’.
For more information on how you can support and engage with the findings as a resource, contact Ed: ed@1136789091.n79310.test.prositehosting.co.uk
Where do you feel you most belong?
10 selected answers
In my family – unconditional love.
With people I love; in the community.
In nature.
With my family – making my granddaughter laugh.
Alone by myself as I don’t like myself. I feel I don’t belong in this world. Always trying to fit in, always fail.
At home. Alone.
With strangers – on the computer.
I belong wherever my kids are… when I’m not with them I feel like I’m falling through a black hole with no end.
Walking on Blakeney Point – with the sea, the sky and the seabirds.
I don’t feel like I belong anywhere.
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