Tanaka Mhishi is a writer, ​researcher and performer. His ​work deals with issues ​surrounding masculinity, trauma ​and healing for audiences of all ​ages. With a career spanning ​multiple forms and industries, ​these are some of the places ​you might have encountered ​him over the past ten years.

• Writing and performing Boys Don’t, an OFFIE ​nominated show for ages 8-12 about the transition to ​secondary school and the masculinities we find there.
  

• Supporting journalists at national newspapers and ​survivors of sexual violence to work together on more ​nuanced content of some of our most difficult issues.
  

• Delivering theatre-based training in rural South Africa ​to help men and women come together to tackle ​violence against women and girls.
  

Sons and others: On Loving ​Male Survivors is available ​on bookshop.org or ​through your local ​bookshop.

• Using creative research methods to help large ​organisations develop and implement anti-​discrimination strategies, including impact ​measurement and accountability practices.
  

• Teaching writers and survivors how to encounter ​stories of trauma in ways that resist tokenisation, ​retraumatisation and exploitation.
  

• Running a teddy-bear designing workshop for ​young LGBTQIA+ people and their parents/carers.