Fraternities can seem like an impenetrable part of American #college life. They serve as social hubs, create bonds of brotherhood and promise to produce future leaders. In recent years, the organizations have come under increased scrutiny, leading to calls for #colleges to stop funding them. In the past decade, there have been dozens of high-profile hazing deaths involving fraternities—including four in 2017—and several have faced punishments for alleged racist and sexist incidents. Critics often charge that #GreekLife can enable binge drinking, drug use and sexual assault. "Fraternities are the places where problematic and toxic masculinity is incubated,” says photographer Andrew Moisey, an assistant professor and director of visual studies at Cornell. “We literally send our kids to be educated in places where they learn to be the opposite of gentleman. It’s mind-boggling.” Between 2000 and 2008, Moisey photographed in his younger brother’s unnamed #fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley. His photographs will be published in October—amid a national conversation about toxic #masculinity sparked by #MeToo—in his book The American Fraternity. “I kind of appreciated the wildness that fraternity men had—I wasn’t expecting to do that,” he says. “We live in a modern society where people don’t get to be wild anymore, and I think there’s a value in that.” Yet there were moments that disturbed him, especially as the members’ conduct collided with the outside world: “My wish is that it would stay within the walls of the fraternity and not leave and affect everyone else so that the wildness each of us has can be explored without having to have social repercussions." Moisey says he got pushback from alumni of the fraternity, but the brothers at the time were excited about the project and how they looked. “The culture that happens in a fraternity house ends up infecting the rest of the country—especially when brothers become leaders,” he says. “I want them to look at my book like it’s a mirror and ask themselves: is this the image you want to see?” Photographs by Andrew Moisey—@daylightbooks

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