NOMAS Empowerment and Accountability Process
NOMAS EMPOWERMENT and ACCOUNTABILITY PROCESS Phyllis B. Frank and Wayne Morris History: When I walked into a NOMAS meeting along with other men and women, I picked up an attitude of arrogance and superiority from one of the white men. This is not an unusual...“Teach us to Sit Still”: Coming Home after the Undoing Racism Workshop
by Phyllis B. Frank and Gail Golden “Teach us to Sit Still”: * Coming Home after the Undoing Racism Workshop** by Phyllis B. Frank and Gail Golden Many of us fortunate enough to take the Undoing Racism Workshop have described it as a transformative,...Beyond Guilt: How to Deal with Societal Racism
By Lauren Nile and Jack Straton Racism manifests in a number of ways, including internalized, personal, institutional, and societal. This article addresses the specific form of racism that we refer to as “societal,” and provides a method of responding to the...Martin Luther King, Non-violence, and the Anti-Sexist Men’s Movement
By Robert Brannon It is important to look back and remember the ideological history of today’s anti-sexist men’s movement. Not so much the dates and details, but the sources of our ideals and ideas, and the movements and events that influenced our evolving...White-Bashing? Teaching “Hot-Button” Issues via Indirection
BY JACK C. STRATON Revised 2009 from the version that appeared in Democracy & Education, Fall 2000, pp. 69-72. The biggest barriers to learning about racism, sexism, and the other oppressions, are the non-rational aversive reactions most of us have to the material...Latest from NOMAS Facebook
MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too. When US and European researchers fed pictures of congressmembers to Google’s cloud image recognition service, the service applied three times as many annotations related to physical appearance to photos of women as it did to men.
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'
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A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.