Outreach, Advocacy and Healing for All

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How do we best create healing and resources for sexual violence victims on our college campuses?

Going Through Guyhood

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Meet Kevin Carty, the new editor of “Guyhood” – about the lives of young men in the world.

Mentored Boys or Monster Boys

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“In the absence of elders, the impetuosity of youth becomes the slow death of the community.” Jed Diamond takes his grandson on a rite of passage.

“The country pays attention when there is a school shooting or a bomb, but we rarely look at these events through the lens of gender.”

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This is a comment by Jed Diamond on the post “Dear Mr. President, Our Nation’s Boys Need Your Attention”.

When Teen Boys Lose Hope

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Hopeless and angry young males can do desperate things. How mentors can stand by in their times of crisis.

Things I’ve Learned From Writing Under a Gender-Neutral Name

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What changes when people think you’re a woman? Nico Lang explains.

I Come From: Three Essays from Venice High School Students

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Marcus Anderson, Fernando Garcia, and Steve Miramontes are three young men who know where they come from.

How to Become a Warrior

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The warrior is sensitive enough to discern truth, and has the courage to stand up for it.

This Teen Walked 10 Miles in the Snow for a Job Interview and Got One Before He Arrived (Video)

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Need some hope? This is what happens when determination meets a good heart.

“I lost 25 pounds, quit blaming other people for my problems, went back to school, got a job, and now I love my life.”

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This is a comment by Mike Russo on the post “Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?”

The Function of Adrenalin in Boys’ Rites of Passage

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The young generation can be a threat to the status quo, or an energy source that needs direction, depending on how we meet the challenge.

Fire in Cholon

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An American soldier in Saigon receives an unexpected lesson in courage.

Urinals, Graffiti, and Boys Being Seen

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Being invisible in a high price to pay for being a teenage boy.

Poem: Epitaph … for Skip

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Daniel Lee Fee’s elegy for a young man describes the feelings “neither one of us guys / was brave enough, / simple enough, / to say, / to say out loud.”

“As an introduction to manhood I would tell boys: the pain you feel matters.”

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This is a comment by Eagle35 on the comment of the day: “Women are not the benchmark for manhood.”

Male Stereotypes: 11/17

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Does the stereotypical man exist?