NOMAS is celebrating 35 years of the pro-feminist movement. Come in and learn more.

Welcome to our online home! NOMAS is celebrating its 35th year with our National Conference on Men & Masculinity (M&M), and the 22nd Annual Men's Studies Association Meeting in partnership with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) 14th National Conference on Domestic Violence:  Changing Faces of the Movement, in Anaheim, CA, July 31-August 4, 2010. 

NOMAS will be providing a conference welcoming evening program on Saturday, July 31, featuring keynote speaker, Michael Kimmel, followed by the national premier of “Men’s Monologues Against Violence” performed by Ben Atherton-Zeman, and a late night "coffee House" talent show.  Please click on the sidebars for access to registration forms, program updates, and call for workshops.

The National Organization for Men Against Sexism is an activist organization of men and women supporting positive changes for men. NOMAS advocates a perspective that is pro-feminist, gay affirmative, anti-racist, dedicated to enhancing men's lives, and committed to justice on a broad range of social issues including class, age, religion, and physical abilities. We affirm that working to make this nation's ideals of equality substantive is the finest expression of what it means to be men. The world has changed dramatically in the 33 years since NOMAS held its first M&M but sexism, homophobia, racism and men's violence are, unfortunately, as prevalent today as they were three decades ago.

Although progress has been made in recent times in the struggle for gender and social justice, Sexism, Racism, and Heterosexism continue to appear in different guise and are still alive and well in preventing us and our society from reaching our full human potential. Women still do not make salaries equivalent to their male peers; sexual minorities are still denied basic human rights; racial minorities still experience discrimination especially as states try to implement new voting requirements; and men's violence is still rampant – on individual, community, national and international bases. These oppressions may be subtler than they were in the mid-70s, but the effects are just as repressive and violent on members of our society.

As with past conferences, the 35th National Conference on Men & Masculinity will focus on the NOMAS principles and tenets with a particular emphasis on community response to violence. The conference brings together activists, academics, workers in mental health, diversity, faith communities, domestic and sexual violence. The 22nd Annual Men's Studies Association Meeting will  convene in conjunction with M&M35, providing academics the opportunity to present scholarly papers on these issues.

The site will continue to grow and change as we begin to offer greater access to NOMAS' pro-feminist principles and tenets and organize 34 years of history, documents, relationships, and events into accessible archives. Questions, suggestions, submissions (original articles, photographs, poetry, cartoons, etc.) and donations are all welcome. Please donate and become a member today! NOMAS is a 501c3 non-profit so your donations are tax-deductible.