Men fighting for women's rights

Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina Monologues and Jackson Katz, an amazing activist who educates men about women's issues, are teaching a Men @ Work: Men Working to End Men's Violence Against Women and Girls  workshop on Saturday June 24th in New York City

Topics include:

• Redefining Masculinity;
• Recognizing Family Violence;
• "Beyond Beats and Rhymes: an exploration of sexism, homophobia and misogyny in Hip Hop";
• Fathering: Finding the tools for breaking the cycle of violence, and becoming a leader in your community to end violence against women.

HOW COOL IS THAT?

It's for men only, but I'm going to see if I can try and go to at least the opening or the closing of the event.  If I make it, I'll make sure to update you.

All the contact info etc is below and also at the V Day website

Men@Work: Men Working To End Men's Violence Against Women And Girls
Saturday, June 24
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (light lunch will be served)

 

Location: Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., 3rd Floor, Rooms 311/312, Between 121st Street and 122nd Streets, NYC

 

Space is limited, RSVP to tony at vdayorg or 212-645-VDAY (8329). Sponsored in part by The Avon Foundation

 

Comments

[g]

Very cool.
BTW, Jessica Weiner has podcasts now. Thought you'd wanna know, 'cause you link to her.

[Mel B]

This is great...and I suppose it's a start, and not to demean, but there's a hell of a long way to go. Case in point, what about those men who aren't self aware to even think about stuff like this? I'm a hospital response volunteer for the Rape Recovery Ctr. of (a state that should probably remain nameless for the sake of confidentiality) and I see stuff all the time that would make your blood run cold.

Here's the latest: http://bodhi-chenrezig.livejournal.com/10188.html (I blog about them becuase sometimes I just need to release after a hospital visit and my blog is a good listener).

[sophie]

this is an advetising thing so men will go to there restaurants