Fundraising is a difficult but important part of many feminist projects; interestingly, male privilege means it is often easier for men to raise money for a women’s shelter or hotline than for women to do it. If we take on some of that work, where our privilege is especially helpful, it also leaves women and people of other genders with more time and energy to devote where their specific life experiences give them more expertise!
Unrelatedly: music is amazing. Musicians are often cool people, many just want to go out and share their talents with an audience, or ! That said, the music industry is notoriously sexist – so it’s always good to push back against that a bit.
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As an introduction to my future posts here at Masculinities 101, this post will be a little different from most of what you see on activist and academic blogs. I am not thinking of my contributions as a blog, so much as an attempt at solving one specific problem. I have been researching men’s feminist activism for about ten years now. I have been involved in such activism for even longer (the picture is me with NOMAS Boston in 2006). I keep running into one major, and easily remedied, concern for the groups I work with, research, and read about. My posts on this blog will be a small and humble attempt to fix that problem, and I want to start by telling a story.
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