This E-Book is being published one chapter at a time. Each week Erin will drop a new chapter to enjoy. Purchasing this book now means you'll have access to all future versions and updates. This book is also accessible when you become a member of the Terra Collective.
Inspired by the workshop of the same name, Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoor Industry (the E-book) is a written resource (expanded from the Cheat Sheet) for folks who want to arm themselves with the knowledge to locate, discern, and interrupt toxic masculinity when they see it. This book is dedicated to the girls, gays, they/thems, and femmes who have been told they're "too sensitive," they need to "learn how to take a joke," and that it's "not that deep."
This book is here to assert that when it comes to issues of toxic masculinity (which encompasses race, class, gender) you can never be too sensitive, the jokes are just not funny, and it actually is that deep.
- Saskia Corke
Overview of what toxic masculinity is
The imperial adventurer to corporate-hippie-outdoorsy-person pipeline
Patagonia’s Greenwashing, the "Good Guy" Trope, and Yvon Chouinard
Interrogating the film 'Free Solo' as a way to illustrate toxic masculinity
Three main themes of toxic masculinity:
Peter Pan Syndrome
Warrior Complex/Manifest Destiny
Himpathy
BONUS: Somatic Experiencing techniques for nervous system regulation, discernment, and interrupting toxic masculinity
A "beta launch" means that this is just the first version of the E-book. If you buy the E-book during the "beta launch" you're locked in for future versions of Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoor Industry (the E-book). As newer versions of this E-book are published, you'll have lifetime access to those versions for being an early patron.
Consider this E-book a living, dynamic document that is meant to expand and go deeper over time.
Also, as a first reader, you'll be able to submit your feedback for the chance to be incorporated into future versions of the E-book!
- Saskia Corke
Erin Monahan, she/her
Erin is the founder (and head feminist killjoy in charge) 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 has been writing about toxic masculinity and related themes in the outdoor industry since 2014.
She's also a speaker, educator, and a trauma-informed mindset and business coach. She founded Vesta Business School in 2020.
Erin is driven to cultivate a nourishing and supportive community, as well as to build an informative and robust educational platform for folks who strive to dismantle systems of oppression in their personal and professional lives. Erin's mission is to catalyze major shifts towards gender and racial justice in the outdoor industry and beyond.
Welcome to Terra Incognita Media where we deliver nuanced feminist analysis about issues surrounding race, class, and gender in response to the outdoor industry.
Terra Incognita Media is a completely independent feminist media organization that provides a feminist response to the outdoor industry.
Our content, podcast, workshops, and events protest settler colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy. We strive to instigate meaningful discourse that leads off the page and catalyzes political action.
We seek to raise the level and depth of discourse happening in the outdoor industry. We prioritize women, femme, queer, trans, Black, POC, and Indigenous voices in order to highlight the complexity of our relationship with natural spaces.
A Brief History:
Erin Monahan wasn’t finding media she wanted to read and consume when she became more involved with environmental politics and the outdoor industry through rock climbing back in 2015. She started Terra Incognita Media with the intent on building a feminist platform, but quickly received feedback that her approach was embroiled in white feminism. After confronting her whiteness, some heavy learning and unlearning (of which is ongoing), and the implementation of a dedicated anti-racist practice, her intentions began to more closely match her desired impact.
Terra has gone through many overhauls and evolutions, and will continue to evolve and grow.
Today, Erin is joined by Christina Torres, founder of Cyclista Zine.
Terra Incognita Media is an independent, feminist media outlet supported solely by our readers who want to burn down oppressive systems and build something new just as much as we do. This is our contribution to a feminist future that is anti-patriarchal, anti-white supremacist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist.
- Saskia Corke