Prevention Connection‘s latest newsletter is pretty fantastic. It includes audio recordings from the 4th Annual A Call to Men conference (PDF), held last spring in NYC. If you’re not familiar with the project, A Call to Men “challenges men to reconsider their long held beliefs about women, in an effort to create a more just society. We achieve this by encouraging change in the behaviors of men through a re-education and training process that challenges sexism.”
Some of the speakers whose recordings you can hear include:
- Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues
- Lundy Bancroft, speaking on child custody and the oppression of women
- Rita Smith, ED of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on the role men play in ending violence against women
And several really interesting panels:
- Jackson Katz, leading a discussion about expanding violence prevention work with men and boys
- Ulester Douglas leading a discussion about community organizing and the Training Institute for Mobilizing Men (TIMM)
- Desiree Allen Cruz leading a discussion on men as allies
Seriously, that’s not even half of it. I encourage you to check it out for yourself.