Dear brothers (and everyone)
Firstly, a quick update.
2025 has the flavour of collaborations, and I am excited about it.
C-Lab will partner with different people and projects throughout the year to make visible aspects of cyclical living that modernity has neglected, forgotten or obliterated. So watch for those and join the conversation and Zoom calls if you can. We’ll be exploring lots of topics that look, at first glance, female-focused, like bringing the mother-baby duo to the centre of our efforts as a society, looking at the birthing industry, breastfeeding, menstrual shame, side effects of the pill, Hormone replacement therapy, women’s cycle and capitalism, peri-post menopause, women’s mind and psychology, women’s minds and psychiatry…the list, as you can imagine, is very long.
From this list, it looks like C-Lab’s work is for women alone, but this is NOT the case. I’ll explain why: It is only because there is very little shared understanding of the distinction between the male and female mind/bodies that we have to “zoom in” to the female side of things for a while.
And this is where you come in, dear men!
If we continue consuming information that we are already well-versed in, we’ll only get more and more removed from all the other aspects of reality and life that we are NOT exposed to.
To tackle precisely this problem, 2025 will be a year of disclosure. A year in which many of C-Lab’s projects will bring a flavour of “sharing something intimate that should have been kept behind closed doors”.
This “strategy” is because the more I work with people, the more I see how much we project onto one another. This keeps us locked in the “drama triangle”. We do that mostly unconsciously, of course.
We are all a part of a society that has very confused ideas about how men and women operate, and this is why C-Lab goes straight to the core.
I the coming weeks and moths, we’ll be looking at the male and female minds from various lenses, but my favourite is the lens of rhythm. I have written much about it in my book and will share bits about it here. I love this lens because it prevents us from getting lost “in the weeds” of blame and guilt.
Rhythm has no intrinsic value or morality associated with it. It is neutral.
But this post is not about this.
The primary message I want to convey in this post is that true collaboration requires us to understand each other; for that, we need to be humble and curious.
Please take some time to watch this video and share it with your friends, and if you have specific questions, concerns, or issues you are personally interested in exploring, share them in the comments or start a discussion.
Gender equality looks nothing like what most people think it should be. There is much more nuance to the conversation; we need you for that!
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