Author, British rapper Guvna B explores how toxic masculinity affects young men today

Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man sees British rapper Guvna B in an intimate and sincere memoir, exploring how toxic masculinity affects young men today. Written to inspire, UNSPOKEN examines male identity while drawing on his own powerful experiences and is a powerful message aimed at young men who are most in need of guidance.

Once thinking he knew everything that he needed to know about what it means to be a man today, a personal tragedy hit Guvna B hard when his dad passed away unexpectedly and his world turned upside down. When his father died, he was unable to cry, conditioned by a lifetime of feeling that being a man meant being strong. At the age of 28 he withdrew from the world and cut himself off from his wife, his family, his friends. His happy life unravelled.

Guvna was brought up on an East London council estate and was influenced to think that men are meant to be tough, thick skinned and unemotional and so supressed all of his emotions throughout childhood to adulthood. It was only after his dad passed that he was forced into learning how to deal with emotion and UNSPOKEN shares the inspirational journey he faced to get there.

UNSPOKEN is a book for all young people, but writing from a black man’s perspective, Guvna B understands what young black men have to face in today’s society and hopes to open up the conversation.