Look for Shira Tarrant’s new column, The Man Files, when she joins Deborah Siegel and the awesome team at Girl With Pen, a group blog bridging feminist research and popular reality.
The Man Files brings together some of the most provocative thinking about feminism and masculinity on the web. Our shared aim as editors is to continue the conversation Shira Tarrant launched with Men Speak Out and to foster the kind of the intergenerational conversation around the aftershocks of feminism Deborah Siegel put out there with Sisterhood, Interrupted. The Man Files tackles a range of subjects, from sex to work to fashion to fatherhood. Our goal is to engage scholars, bloggers, and readers in a popular online forum about what it means these days to “be a man.” Currently hosted at the group blog Girl with Pen, The Man Files has big plans…Stay tuned!
Many thanks to the KGB Bar, Byron Hurt, Lisa Selin Davis, and to all the folks who came out for the Men Speak Out reading at the KGB Bar Nonfiction Series in NYC last week.
About 2,000 California protesters opposed to Prop 8 turned out in the LBC to increase the love and decrease the hate. A few photos here:
Join us for November’s Men Speak Out event on
Masculinity, Sex, and Hip Hop
KGB Bar Nonfiction Series
85 E. 4th St. NYC 10003
212-505-3360
Tuesday November 11, 2008 7:00pm
Featuring Shira Tarrant and Byron Hurt
What people are saying about Men Speak Out:
“This is important validation for men trapped in the masculine construct…and for all the trannies and queers who negotiate these issues.”
—Inga Muscio, author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
“Men Speak Out is an important addition to the growing body of work exploring men’s crucial role in the fight for gender justice.”
—Lisa Jervis, founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Time Out New York calls the KGB Bar one of the city’s Essential Creative Communities. For more info click here.
Do candlelight vigils prevent men’s violence against women? In a word: No.
Read more about effective domestic violence and sexual assault prevention at Katrina Kobzeff’s blog. Vigils and speak-outs might raise awareness and provide a forum for catharsis. But far more compelling is for women and men to work together in figuring out ways to stop violence before it happen.
