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I want to see a masculinity where love, power with, and compassion replace dominance, power over, and violence — a masculinity where some of those good messages I learned from the men in my life endure while leaving behind the destructive things that hurt me and so many other male-identified people. In short, we need a new way to understand ourselves as men.

Though America claims to stand for freedom, it reserves that freedom for a small, privileged, and entitled portion of its society. The parents of Black and Brown children, however, have to teach their children how to survive racism and other forms of institutional oppression. In this video, A’Driane Nieves passionately explains what freedom should look like.

Despite what we like to think, feminism is not always the inclusive space that we want it to be. It can actually be an unsafe place for those seen as outsiders. A small (but vocal!) minority of feminists has a history of purposefully excluding trans struggles from feminism. And not only is this harmful for trans people, but it actually weakens feminism. Here’s why.

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Believing that feminism should address only sexism, some feminists are hesitant to include working to end racism when working to end patriarchy. But if we want to end sexism and support all women, we absolutely must include anti-racism work into our feminism. If you’ve ever wondered what racial justice conversations have to do with feminism, here are your answers.

Most people believe feminists are angry, man-hating, hairy butch lesbians. But it’s just the conservatives telling lies so you don’t take a stand against sexism. Learn the truth here.

From the moment we are born, girls — and children who are told they are girls — are socialized to embrace misogyny as normal. As this poet explains, we learn to recognize our worth in how attractive men find us, to say thank you to street harassment, to protect ourselves with flirtation and niceties, to find power in masculinity, to be complacent with invisibility.

A person is sitting at a computer, looking upset and confused. The computer reads, "Check your privilege!"

Ever felt upset when someone said you had privilege? That probably means you believe one of these myths. Let’s clear up what your privilege really means.

You’ll be pissed when you read these facts on the campus policies that support predatory rape culture. What do you think we should do about it?

Those of us calling for an inclusive feminism aren’t the ones being “divisive.” But those of us refusing to acknowledge the need for intersectionality in feminism are.

On January 21, 2017, millions of people around the world participated in The Women’s March. A Facebook event that quickly went viral, the march was a powerful display of resistance and solidarity that coalesced around a number of issues including reproductive rights and fighting back against sexual assault. But, for many transgender people, the march…

In his spoken word poem “Action,” Guante reflects on how he should have held his friend accountable for the abusive way he spoke about and treated his girlfriend. He analyzes how the media teaches men to think of sex as violence and to victim blame. This poem asks men to speak up and reminds them that rape culture is dependent on their silence and complacency.

Think intersectionality is just about the ways we’re all different? Here’s how white people are missing the point in a dangerous way.

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Many white people in LGBTQIA+ communities see police as friends to the community, and incarceration as “a practical solution.” Here’s why we need to remember history and the reality of racialized police violence.

Some believe that since gay men do not want to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping is benign. In a culture that doesn’t see gay men as “men”, our sexist acts are instead read as “diva worship” or “celebrating women” even when they are acts of objectification, assault, and dehumanization. We must question these assumptions in ourselves and in our communities.

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We still live in a society where straight people have more rights, power, and freedom. Here’s how straight privilege comes into play.

Originally published on Medium and republished here with the author’s permission. Since Inauguration Day, the progressive community and people of good conscience more generally are experiencing a mix of dread, despair and fear as we steel ourselves to face the dystopian reality of the Trump era. We all recognize the threat that a Trump administration represents for…

Do you have a specific idea about what being non-binary “looks” like? Making assumptions about what it means to exist outside the gender binary of man and woman is harmful – and here’s how.

Can you imagine being in her brother’s position at work? Men of color are literally being killed because of these stereotypes.

For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones, and who are working for positive change in the world, let us commit or re-commit to making feminism central in our lives, values, and actions. It is time for men in the millions to take courageous action in our society to further feminist revolution.

If American people are truly worried about terrorism and the safety of their country and people, then we need to shift our focus onto white terrorists, as they increasingly seem to be the real threat.