The Violence of Homelessness: A Young Male Survivor’s Story [Trigger warning]

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W.R.R. escaped his father’s child sex ring only to endure the horrors of homelessness: illness, starvation, and yet more sexual violence. How does this survivor find meaning in his life today?

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A Man Ought to Know How to Handle Something Like This

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Bullying doesn’t always stop when childhood ends.

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Hidden Ashes: A Male Survivor’s Fear of Men

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Men who are afraid of other men: you are not alone.

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Be Present to Win

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You have to be present in order to win at life. Seven years sober, Brandon Ferdig is grateful to the people who have been there for him.

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Power Is What You Think You Have

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Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right —Henry Ford

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The Seeds of Power

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The abuse of power starts small.

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Pain and Power

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Power in relationships lies with whoever can inflict the most pain on the other person.

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Empowered: The Undocumented Immigrant

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Powerlessness is being an undocumented immigrant.

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The Power of Being Powerless

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Why dignity is more important than the one intangible commodity men trade most

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The Power of the Trigger: My Time in the Iraqi Civil War

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Justin Cliburn speaks about his time as a gunner in Iraq.

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The Power of Powerlessness

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Sobriety teaches a man the paradoxical power of powerlessness.

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F–k You, God, I’m Gonna Win

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Tim Green remembers how he discovered the limits of his personal power–and what lay beyond them

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