Tag Archives: Masculinity
Dallas Mayor calls for 10,000 men to rally to end domestic violence
TweetLast month, after a number of high-profile domestic violence cases in the city, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced that he was launching a public awareness campaign and made a powerful appeal to men to help change the culture of violence. It’s our fault. It’s not the women’s fault. We want to make it known that any violent act [...]
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How inner city gun violence is a gendered issue
Tweet 2013, following the trend set in the latter half of last year, has been the year of the glock. Everybody, and their mama, is talking about gun violence and gun control laws. Guns, guns, guns. I think it’s safe to say that we’ve been hearing about gun violence in two extremely different contexts. On [...]
Also tagged Class, Gender, gun control, gun violence, Race, violence Comments closed
It takes a village to silence street harassment
Tweet Original Artwork by Norma Krautmeyer If I had a nickel for every time a dude tells me to smile while I’m walking down street to the store, train, work, school…Lord, I could fund a Super PAC called “stop telling women to smile because you don’t have any clue on how to engage them,” then [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Break The Gender Box