Introducing a new weekly column on The Good Life by popular contributor “Dr. Bill” Johnson II on black masculinity. This week, he addresses people with common values, separated by a word.
The Disposability of Black Men
February 2, 2013 By 66 Comments
Black men are brutally murdered and systematically incarcerated. Is this genocide?
Travel Poems From My Dad: Vuvuzela Blues
January 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
Josh Bowman is sharing his father’s poetry all week. Today, Vuvuzela Blues.
Did Men Do This?
January 5, 2013 By 8 Comments
When did violence, even the passive institutional violence of keeping women from being ordained, become a tool for proclaiming holiness?
Philip Werner Talks Vaginas, Nakedness & Body Image
December 20, 2012 By 30 Comments
The taboos around our bodies, and around the vagina, in particular, allow shame to flourish. Could embracing the vagina eradicate sexual violence?
The Grace Hotel
December 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
A former wedding planner observes the sex trade in Bangkok, as well as efforts to free women and children from prostitution.
I Get Mocked for Being Fat, But It’s What Guys Do
December 12, 2012 By 11 Comments
Edwin Lyngar wonders why is it OK for men to poke fun of each other’s physical flaws?
The (Christian) Month of December
November 23, 2012 By 6 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld sees the privileged few and an excluded many during the “Holiday Season.”
What Is the True Measure of a Man?
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We can’t choose our fathers, but we can find our own role models, says Donald D’Haene, who found inspiration in the real and scripted lives of Sidney Poitier.
Freedom, Business and Change
November 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
If conservatives want to run America like a business, they should never turn a potential customer away.
Man vs. Oppression
October 14, 2012 By 6 Comments
Kyle Carpenter’s awareness of his privileges inspire a dual struggle against institutionalized oppression: in the world and within himself.
On The Definition of Oppression
August 29, 2012 By 28 Comments
I doubt there is any arguments in the social justice community that get quite as heated as the question of whether Group X is oppressed. Things That Group X Can Be: poly people, kinky people, men, sex workers, people on the asexual or aromantic spectrum, vegans/vegetarians, animals, atheists, otherkin, multiples, et cetera, et cetera, et [...]
An Education in Inequality
July 24, 2012 By 8 Comments
What Tim Brown has learned from the Penn State scandal about institutional racism.
“Men and boys are treated like interchangeable parts in a machine.”
July 19, 2012 By 4 Comments
This is a comment by Danny on the post “On the Disposibility of Men”.
What Do LGBT+ Have to Be Proud of?
June 23, 2012 By 4 Comments
What do we in the LGBT+ community have to be proud of? Us.
“As an introduction to manhood I would tell boys: the pain you feel matters.”
This is a comment by Eagle35 on the comment of the day: “Women are not the benchmark for manhood.”