An international festival is taking place at a critical juncture for feminism and manhood, amid a rise in the power of toxic influences in the "manosphere" over men and boys.
The Boys and Men Festival brought hundreds of activists and advocates together from all corners of the globe - including Australia - to Brazil's second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro.
Its goal is to stand together for one shared message: gender inequality hurts all and people must unite to end it.
"This should be difficult, these are tough conversations about our power," Equimundo's Gary Barker told the festival opening on Friday.
"We get doors to open for us because we're men. And yet, all the women - who have been carrying the weight for the women's rights work - are not getting into the spaces that sometimes we are."
