ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a hard-wearing but not completely unfaltering desire to create more imaginative and effective strategies and concepts with which to engage men, particularly young men at university and outside, towards a profeminist consciousness. It troubles the impasse in gender-critical masculinity studies of men. The chapter describes the moment where a woman speaks of fear of harassment, violence and wishes to leave the joint struggles to oppose coloniality within universities as a moment of thinking towards how people might conscientize young men within universities. As a reflection that grounds itself on a pedagogic moment on a weekend night outside of formal university classes at a historically segregated white university, the chapter also focuses on the experience of that night as a learning-to-teach moment. However, because self-avowed profeminist men are in the minority, attempts to engage young black male university students to grasp the radical potential of a situated profeminist consciousness face great odds.
