A 2-hour workshop designed to confront these realities head-on. Led by Erin Monahan and Christina Torres, co-founders of Terra Incognita Media, this workshop invites you to explore the historical roots of toxic masculinity and imperialist narratives in the outdoor industry and offers a framework as to how you can challenge and dismantle them.
This is a precursor to our full 6-week program, Disrupting Dominion: THE COURSE.
Historical Foundations: Colonialism and Outdoor Recreation
Examine colonialist ideologies such as Manifest Destiny and the concept of Terra Incognita (unknown land) and how this has impacted how we relate to the outdoors today.
Expose John Muir's racist legacy, whose actions contributed to the exclusion of Indigenous peoples from lands now labeled National Parks.
Toxic Masculinity in Outdoor Media
Media Case Study: Free Solo: We'll dive into the film Free Solo as an example of how toxic masculinity is portrayed in outdoor media.
Analyze how Alex Honnold’s focus on being a "warrior" and his emotional detachment is celebrated, and how this perpetuates harmful narratives about risk-taking and individual achievement over respecting the Land as a sentient being and community care.
Reflection Exercise
Participants will be invited to consider how colonial narratives have influenced their personal experiences in outdoor spaces.
Participants can journal individually or share their thoughts out loud with the group.
The workshop is about 2 hours long.
Attendees will leave this workshop with a heightened ability to pinpoint, understand, and discern what toxic masculinity looks like in the outdoor industry, as well as feel connected to a group of like-minded advocates and changemakers who are fighting for environmental justice.
- Andreas Hopfgarten, Workshop Participant Spring 2023
By attending this free workshop, you’ll also have the opportunity to enroll in our full 6-week program, "Disrupting Dominion: The 6-Week Course" at an exclusive beta pricing rate.
This special offer is available to a limited number of participants who join us on this transformative journey.
Have questions? Email us at heyterracollective@gmail.com
Christina is a Kawaiisu-Paiute descendant of Tejon Indian Reservation and Chicana. Writing and riding in the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape - Wappinger peoples in so-called New York. Zinester of Cyclista Zine. Blogger of City Girl Rides. Mobility justice and recreation to rematriation advocate.
Erin is the co-founder of Terra Incognita Media and a settler on the traditional and stolen lands of the Osage, Miami, and Oceti Sakowin peoples, otherwise known as St. Louis, Missouri. She is a writer, speaker, educator, and a trauma-informed mindset and business coach with a background in anti-oppressive facilitation.
Erin is driven to cultivate a nourishing and supportive community, as well as build an informative and robust educational platform for folks who strive to dismantle systems of oppression in their personal and professional lives, so we can see tangible shifts towards environmental justice.
FAQ section
You've got questions. We've got answers.
Whether you're an outdoor enthusiast, an advocate, or someone seeking personal healing, advocacy, and leadership development in your personal life, you'll find value in this session. This is also geared towards those in a professional practice, be it in therapy, coaching, environmental education, or other related fields.
"Toxic masculinity is constantly in the headlines, images, narratives and films of the outdoor industry. This workshop interrogates how we got to this point and lays bare our history and socialization that permits harmful patterns of abuse that ultimately lead to the dehumanization of women, Indigenous communities, people of color and The Land."
Christina Torres, founding zinester of Cyclista Zine
There are no true safe spaces, but we can work to dismantle imperialist-white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy as bell hooks called it, and strive to create safe(r) spaces where everyone's humanity is uplifted and honored. Let's expose toxic masculinity and re-write the dominant narrative of the outdoors.
Join us for this powerful workshop and start disrupting the cycles of oppression that shape our outdoor spaces.
With all of our feminist killjoy rage, solidarity, and care,
The Terra Team
Cite Your Sources and Give Credit
We expect attendees to cite and give credit to any of the sources within this workshop. This also goes for the facilitators' spoken or written words, conversations, images, likeness, etc or any of the above when it comes to attendees.
All intellectual property and related material from this workshop is the sole property of Terra Incognita Media. Unless expressly stated otherwise, you shall not copy, reproduce or replicate any Intellectual Property.
Unauthorized copying, distribution, modification, public display, or public performance of copyrighted works is an infringement of the copyright holder’s rights. You agree that you will not use our workshop to infringe our intellectual property rights, or anyone else's. Please report copyright infringement claims to heyterracollective@gmail.com
We'd love to bring this workshop to your space for free especially if it's for students, youth programs, 2SLGBTQIA+ groups, and outdoor groups doing aligned work. Please email us at heyterracollective@gmail.com and let's chat!