NewsNOMAS Partners with NCADV for the 35th National Conference on Men and MasculinityWelcome 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. Highlights of the Colorado Men Against Domestic Violence NOMAS RoundtableOn Saturday, January 16th representatives from fatherhood programs, domestic violence victim services providers, domestic violence offender treatment programs and others gathered to hear and discuss issues related to encouraging men to take a stand against domestic violence and build positive relationships. Featured at the roundtable were members of the National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) Leadership Council. 22nd Men's Studies Association Meeting, August 1, 2010The Men’s Studies Association of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) is proud to announce that our 22nd annual meeting will held on August 1, 2010, from 9am-2pm, at the Hilton Hotel, in Anaheim, CA. This year’s program will include offerings by Michael Kimmel, Robert Brannon, and David Greene. The Men’s Studies Association serves to link a diverse group of activist scholars, students, teachers, practitioners, and others who study issues of men and masculinity through a feminist-informed perspective. A Request to Men's Organizations and Allies for Support of Protective Child Custody (with Spanish & French Translations)From the NOMAS Child Custody Task Group Male supremacist groups (“Father’s Rights”) have caused unspeakable harm to our country and to our children by encouraging abusive fathers, often with little past involvement with their children, to seek custody as a tactic to pressure a mother to return or to punish her for leaving. Men's Studies Association Abstracts Online on Resource PageTitles and abstracts of 13 of the Men's Studies Association annual meetings are online on the Task Group's Resource page. The meeting notes represent 13 of the last 14 years, starting from the 8th annual meeting, in 1996, through the present day. The 22nd Annual Men's Studies Association Meeting will be held on August 1, 2010, in Anaheim, CA, as part of the 35th National Conference on Men and Masculinity. Please consider submitting a paper for review to present at the conference (see call for papers on the side bar). NOMAS Endorses the NY Model for Batterer ProgramsAfter years of exploring a wide range of batterer program models, the National Council of NOMAS has given its full support to the New York Model for Batterer Programs (www.nymbp.org). This model was determined to be most in keeping with NOMAS principles and beliefs about sexism, domestic violence and batterer programs. Batterer programs, created in the mid 70's, were originally designed to "treat" offenders. Homophobic Hate Crimes Reports Rise in the USBy Jessica Green Reprinteed with permission from www.PinkNews.co.uk Statistics from the FBI have shown an 11 per cent rise in reports of homophobic hate crime across America in the last year. The data, released yesterday (November 23, 2010), shows an overall rise of two per cent for all hate crimes, but this was markedly higher for anti-gay incidents and also for hate crimes based on religion, which rose nine per cent. It shows that 7,783 hate crimes were voluntarily reported to the agency by participating law enforcement agencies, involving a total of 9,691 victims. A majority (58 per cent) of the 1,706 victims targeted for their sexual orientation were gay men. Roughly a third of the cases were physical attacks, another third were intimidation and the remaining third were vandalism or property damage. The FBI has cautioned that year-to-year comparisons are difficult due to the change in the number of law enforcement agencies which chose to participate. The number of participating agencies rose by 449, or 3.4 per cent, versus the prior year. NOMAS Panel Discusses Causes, Preventions for Same-Sex Domestic ViolencePanel Discusses Causes, Preventions for Same-Sex Domestic Violence Written by JoSelle Vanderhooft A panel of experts in domestic violence – all members of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism – met Jan. 11 at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society to discuss the problem of domestic violence in the romantic relationships of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. NOMAS supports Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, HR 3887The U.S. law addressing the crime of Sex Trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 0f 2000, is about to expire and must be reauthorized by Congress. On December 4, the House did something remarkable. It overwhelmingly passed HR 3887 which not only extends the TVPA, but greatly improves it. The trafficking issue now moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee. NOMAS Joined Successful Amicus Brief to Protect Women's-only SheltersNOMAS joined an amicus brief with California Women’s Law Center in a case, in which a man who claimed to be a domestic violence victim brought an unsuccessful equal protection challenge to state funding for Los Angeles area women-only domestic violence shelters. Serving as a tester for the National Coalition of Free Men, Blumhorst called ten agencies to request shelter because, he said, he was experiencing domestic violence. 
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