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
The intersection of Sexism and Ageism:“The invisible woman might be the actor no longer offered roles after her 40th birthday, the 50-year-old woman who can’t land a job interview, or the widow who finds her dinner invitations declining with the absence of her husband. She is the woman who finds that she is no longer the object of the male gaze—youth faded, childbearing years behind her, social value diminished.”
The Invisibility of Older Women
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As they age, women experience less public scrutiny—and entertain a wider set of choices about when and how they are seen.