tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354383662012-02-16T08:42:35.813-05:00the promise of liberation other and beyond conventional masculinityCharles Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04207761200457874336noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35438366.post-7315726888732766242010-03-04T18:35:00.002-05:002010-03-04T18:45:44.095-05:00

by Kevin Powell Photos of Kevinan excerpt from Kevin Powell's 10th and latest book, "Open Letters to America" (Soft Skull). The regular thread in my conversations with women who are domestic violence survivors is their low self-esteem, a feeling that this man, this male partner, somehow validates their lives, their being, even as this partner seeks to control or end their lives. When we talk

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Researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan examined the testosterone levels of students around the time of the 2008 presidential election. Men who voted for John McCain exhibited significant decreases in testosterone upon learning that he lost, whereas the testosterone levels of men who supported Barack Obama were stable. This effect remained even after controlling for

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by Kevin Lewis | October 4, 2009 | The Boston GlobeIt goes without saying that men are aggressive. But that’s exactly the problem, according to psychologists. They asked men and women to imagine various conflict scenarios and found that men systematically overestimate the prevalence and social approval of aggression, even while having mixed feelings about it themselves. Moreover, men assumed

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MAY I SUGGEST (lyrics)Copyright © Susan WernerMay I suggestMay I suggest to youMay I suggest this is the best part of your lifeMay I suggestThis time is blessed for youThis time is blessed and shining almost blinding brightJust turn your headAnd you'll begin to seeThe thousand reasons that were just beyond your sightThe reasons whyWhy I suggest to youWhy I suggest this is the best part of your

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8/31/09Dear Friends:As many of you know, back in September of 2003, I experienced a medically inexplicable "miracle" remission that lasted five years; a remission that enabled me to slow down and explore the Spiritual side of life. I trained and practiced Reiki healing, and strove, with mixed results, to become a less insufferably driven writer, teacher, partner and friend.Writing? In time, I

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by Bob Herbert, New York Times, 08 August 2009."I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me," wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine others and then killed himself.We’ve seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the

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By Stephen Berman. Boston Globe, 3 August 2009.A COUPLE sits on a beach on a brilliant July day. They’ve just had a picnic lunch, and are in that hazy sweet space of watching the waves and the gulls, the passing sailboat, or, far out, the tanker. They feel close.The woman, wanting to feel even more close, asks: “What are you feeling, hon?’’Startled, the man blinks, glances at her, and not knowing

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Many MenSpeakUp from MenSpeakUp on Vimeo.

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In her new book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, Helen Benedict examines the experience of female soldiers serving in the US military in Iraq and elsewhere.Here, in an article adapted from her book, she outlines the threat of sexual violence that women face from their fellow soldiers while on the frontline, and provides testimony from three of the women she

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by Philippe Van ParijsOur race,gender, and citizenship,how educated and wealthy we are,how gifted in mathand how fluent in English,how handsomeand even how ambitious,are overwhelmingly a function of who our parents happened to beand of other equally arbitrary contingencies.Not even the most narcissistic self-made mancould think that he fixed the parental dicein advance of entering this world.

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We are looking for men willing to participate in an online study examining male perspectives on their bodies. If you are female, please forward this email to your male friends who may beinterested in participating.If you are male, please consider completing the survey by clicking the following link:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=VtQSTf2VygnuWamQIZXDBg_3d_3dYour participation is voluntary,

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by Kevin Powell life ain't never been promised to nobodythat's what grandma lottie used to sayand youher youngest daughterand youngest of six childrensnuck into the cityon a greyhound buswith my motherand scraped the side of a boarding house for good luckas your life stretched beyondthe wooden shacksand cotton fieldsand the sandy school room floors of south carolina and you were aliveat

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by Robert Jensen “What is the most important challenge facing women in the 21st century, and why?” That one isn’t easy for anyone to answer, especially in 300 words or less. But that was the assignment from editors of the University of Texas’ web site for faculty members contributing to the “Many Voices of Feminism” collection, which is online at http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/03/09/

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by Andil Gosine One of the best-kept secrets about feminism is this: women’s liberation is good for men. We have heard a great deal about how much greater equality between men and women improves the lives of women, but we have heard not so much about what this means for men—leaving us with the wrong impression that if women gain, men lose. Feminism sets out to liberate men, as it does women.

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Woman Power Point - Doreen BoydView more presentations from Ecumenical Women.

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[I am parking this op-ed from The Boston Globe here until I have time to comment on it. Meanwhile, maybe someone else would like to comment on it. Send me your comments: otherbeyond(at)gmail.com]Where have all the 'real' men gone?by Jay Atkinson, The Boston Globe, 28 February 2009IN ITS PUERILE, lowest-common-denominator way, Hollywood has always reflected society. The movies "Taken," starring

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The New Hampshire Violence Against Men Survey found that 4.9% of men have been sexually assaulted, including 3.7% of all respondents whose sexual assaults included penetration. This represents approximately 25,000 New Hampshire men who have been sexually assaulted, more than twice as many as it would take to fill the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. These sexual assault rates are higher

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I was reading a footnote by anthropologist Karen McCarthy Brown to effect that “In American culture... we work hard to control our sexuality...” [Brown, Mama Lola, pg. 376] This got me to thinking about how I have previously identified the conventional masculine attachment to control as a key issue for men to address in moving beyond conventional behaviors and identity.What to make of the

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follow us to male liberation other and beyond conventional masculinity

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A wake-up call for the communityby Wajahat Aliguardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 February 2009 The brutal beheading of Aasiya Hassan, a Muslim Pakistani-American mother of four, will finally force a community to confront and remedy the overwhelming – but frequently ignored and intentionally hidden – demon of domestic violence that has persecuted its silenced women for far too long.The entire world

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by Gunner Scott I have noticed that the word "tranny" has been being used by progressive organizations and people to describe transgender people. I am not saying that these organizations are using the word as say Fox News or the Boston Herald, that is in a derogatory manner, but that said, tranny is an insider term. It is still consider an offensive term by many in the transgender community, much

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By Kevin PowellWriter's note:Given all the hype and controversy around Chris Brown's alleged beating of Rihanna, I feel compelled to post this essay I originally wrote in late 2007, so that some of us can have an honest jump off point to discuss male violence against females, to discuss the need for ownership of past pains and traumas, to discuss the critical importance of therapy and healing.

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Nearly three out of every four men in New Hampshire experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime, a rate that exceeds the national average, according to the results of the first ever New Hampshire Violence Against Men survey. The report finds most of these experiences, particularly sexual assault, happened before the victims turned 18 years old.The results of the survey were released

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"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

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Last evening I went to an event sponsored by the Center for New Words, Cambridge, MA where Jaclyn Friedman, Toni Amato, and Kate Harding read from the anthology "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape" --http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Means-Visions-Female-Without/dp/1580052576From the reactions of the large, mostly youthful, crowd I would guess this will be a

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by Charles Knight, 31 March 2008These are some aspects and common themes of feminist leadership that I recognize from a few years of practice. I have compiled these here from a quick survey of literature:1. Awareness of self as part of a larger whole -- both in the present moment and through generations and cultural legacy. Attention to history (ancestry). Greater attention to interconnectedness

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Son2MotherBy Kevin Powell Mother, have I told youThat you are the first womanI ever fell in love with, that whatI’ve always wanted in life is to hearYou say you love me, too?That is why, ma, it has takenMe so long to write this poem.For how could I, aGrown man, put words to paperIf I am that little boyCowering beneath the power ofThat slap, the swing of that belt,Or the slash and burn of

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Sexism still runs deep in American politics - YouTube - "How Do We Beat the Bitch" Extended Version

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interesting post and discussion from Dangerous Intersection: "I am not a woman. Are you?"

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by Ann J. SimontonThis is an interesting essay. Check it out: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/09/6943/Here is a couple of excerpts:Our culture promotes the idea that young “beautiful” females who spread in Playboy or strip their way through college represent empowered, enviable role models. Men and boys experience a separate difficulty. In Men and Sex, author Ron Levant defines

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by Robin Morgan February 2, 2008 "Goodbye To All That" was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (for an online version, see http://blog.fair-use.org/category/chicago/). During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . ..” But not

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Ain't I a feminist? -- from TPM Cafe

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XY: men, masculinities, and gender politicsauthor - ecarmona[1/26/2008 10:02 AM]Men Growing Up to be Boys -- In These Timesauthor - lenadances[1/22/2008 10:30 PM] POSTCOLONIAL MASCULINITIESauthor - l1nks[1/25/2008 10:23 AM]

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by Kevin PowellIn my recent travels and political and community work and speeches around the country, it became so very obvious that many American males are unaware of the monumental problem of domestic violence in our nation. Since October just ended and was Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this seems as good a time as any to address this urgent and overlooked issue. Why is it that so few of

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About a year ago I wrote this about other & beyond males:They would work to accept the existential vulnerability of their corporal life in a world of uncertainty. By accepting vulnerability they would give up the illusion of control which drives so much of the will to dominate.If I should get any credit for contributing a useful idea to the feminist project it may be contained in those two

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This I Believe essay by Guy Lancaster

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Martin Firrell has created two extraordinary pieces of "public art" on the necessary redefinition of male heroics. Highly recommended!http://www.martinfirrell.com/supersecretthingy.htmlhttp://www.martinfirrell.com/supersecretthingy2.5.html

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Blog buddy Sassywho has posted my letter about the Liberating Masculinities Writers Syndicate that Kevin Powell and I will launch this fall. Her blog posts with the letter are on I Never Leave the House Without Incident and on Feministe.

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Kevin Powell talks to NPR's Farai Chideya about "Black and Male in America" and the need to create spaces in which males can talk with each other about creating better relationships and communities. Five minute interview on 15 June 2007.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11262522

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Constructing the Black Masculine IdentityCompiled by Thomas WeissingerAfro-Americana Library Unit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBeavers, Herman. "‘The Cool Pose’: Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy." Stecopoulos, and Michael Uebel, eds. Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

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Feminist blogger Sassywho writes:Other & Beyond Real Men is sponsoring this event [15-17 June, Brooklyn, NY] and I strongly encourage everyone who can to go. I've included the full schedule because it looks amazing, and the change that these men are committed to making in their communities is worth all of the support that we can give them. Please pass it on....

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For Nodin upon his 13th birthdayby Vivian TodiniAs you move into manhood...May your courage be in your words and deeds.May you keep yourself and others whom you love safe.May your trust be grounded in instinct and self-respect.May your fierceness be toward injustice.May your power be strengthened by sharing it with others.May diplomacy and thoughtful action be your sword.May your bravery be bold

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Terrance Real describes the indoctrination of boys into patriarchal thinking:When I first began looking at gender issues, I believed that violence was a by-product of boyhood socialization. But after listening more closely to men and their families, I have come to believe that violence is boyhood socialization. The way we "turn boys into men" is through injury: We sever them from their mothers

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This is an extraordinary book! I urge you to buy copies for every man, young or old, in your life - family, friend, lover. It can change their life for the better (and yours as well.) It can start them on the way to finding love without domination.The book is The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks. You can purchase copies at only $10 each here from Amazon.comSome

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The following are adapted excerpts from my "Tough Enough? Beyond the dominion of conventional masculinity in the politics of national security" -- a presentation to the Women in Public Policy weekly seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA, 18 October 2005. These excerpts addresses the contingency of manhood, the social enforcement of conventionality, and how

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Stan Goff has written this interesting essay on militarism, fascism, and masculinity -- Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America.An excerpt: The film genre that most closely corresponds to a fascist mind-set is the male revenge fantasy, wherein after some offense is given that signifies the breakdown of order (usually resulting in the death or mortal imperilment of idealized wives or children) in

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The following is excerpted from Security in the Great Transition by Charles Knight, published by the Tellus Institute, 2006. It is an imagined history of 21st Century warfare and international security written from the perspective of a grateful historian in 2084.Few of the advancements in international security arrangements and in the demilitarization of nation states we enjoy today would have

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This past weekend I attended a memorial celebration of the life and work of Jean Baker Miller, one of the founding contributors to the branch of feminist psychotherapy and psychology known as Relational-Cultural Theory. She was also wife of a dear colleague of mine. I can attest that she was simply a wonderful human being and she will be deeply missed by those of us lucky enough to have known her

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The following is adapted from some exploratory writing I did earlier this year:A premise of my work on male gender identity and politics is that there is already some significant minority of males who reject (consciously or in their being in the world) the dominant male gender identity and role. I ask: around which characteristics and what behaviors might these males eventually discover each

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My feminist friends tell me that it is important to ‘locate’ myself when I write. And blog culture is very conducive to writing about ‘me’, so for this first post on this new blog I will take the hint and tell you something about myself and why I am taking the trouble to create this blog.Professionally I work as a national security analyst. I work for a ‘think tank’ and I spend about half my

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