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Getting Real about Toxic Masculinity with Lamar Giles
May 26, 2020
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Getting Real about Toxic Masculinity with Lamar Giles
Words Alive
May 26, 2020

Getting Real about Toxic Masculinity with Lamar Giles

Words Alive
May 26, 2020

Not So Pure and Simple toes the line between lessons author Lamar Giles learned growing up with the ones he thinks we need to embrace moving forward—and we get it. Toxic masculinity is a vicious cycle and this is a book that needs to be read.

Tagged: Lamar Giles, Not So Pure and Simple, Not so Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles, covid reading activities, covid distance learning, high school reading class, high school reading activities, diverse YA reading activities, YA author, YA books, toxic masculinity

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