by nomas | Jan 18, 2017 | Anti-Racist, Blog, Eliminating Racism, Homophobia, Heterosexism & LGBT Affirmative, News, Position Statement, Task Group News
By Moshe Rozdzial, PhD* Many explanations have been proposed, in the weeks since the presidential election, for Trump’s win, and, to one degree or another, most have some validity. One explanation – working class economic insecurity – seems unsupported. The...
by nomas | Jan 8, 2017 | Accountability, Feminism, News, Uncategorized
by Melissa A. Fabello and Aaminah Khan, Originally published on Everyday Feminism, October 10, 2016 Dear Well-Meaning Men Who Believe Themselves to Be Safe, Thereby Legitimizing the “Not All Men” Argument, Let’s start here, even though this should go without saying:...
by nomas | Sep 16, 2015 | Accountability, Blog, Ending Men's Violence, News, Social Studies
In 1990, Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh wrote an essay called “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. McIntosh observes that whites in the U.S. are “taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring...
by nomas | Aug 19, 2015 | Accountability, Anti-Racist, Eliminating Racism
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...
by nomas | Aug 19, 2012 | Feminism
By Joseph Pleck, PhD Printed with permission MEN’S POWER WITH OTHER MEN In recent years, we have come to understand that relations between men and women are governed by a sexual politics that exists outside individual men’s and women’s needs and...