Isaiah Gee remembers all too well the tough transition from boyhood to manhood.

"I was a pretty insecure teenager, I was pretty afraid of rejection, not just romantically but probably on a larger scale by my peers," the 22-year-old said.

He felt pressure from friends and the internet — but even more so from himself — to be hyper-masculine in order to be accepted and to smother his identity as a person-of-colour.

Attending an all-boys school he felt surrounded by "acts of masculinity".

"Whether that was how many girls you could meet, or how loud you could be, how good you were at school or how disruptive you could be," he said.

Mikey D felt many of the same pressures, which persisted into his early adulthood, where he turned to online spaces to find answers to his problems.

"I just wa

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