How My Octopus Teacher Depicts Healthy Masculinity
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless is a lecture that critiques cultural desensitization and communication breakdowns, serving as a timeless socio-political parable. Paris-based artist Geoffroy C. Dedenis works with videos, photos, and collages, merging experimental and narrative styles across genres.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
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