Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load.
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From a young age, boys are expected to bulk up at the expense of their emotional and mental health.
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
All men who support and care for children have a critical role to play in instilling positive social values in future generations.
To care for their disabled children, the fathers I met had to grow beyond the usual ideas of “what men do.”
Sonora Jha was new to America and on her own with a 6-year-old when she was injured in a car accident. But she found a new community willing to help out—with songs, play dates, and kimbap.
I was unexpectedly emotional watching the Biden-Harris inauguration. Then I remembered the last time I felt so bowled over by basic decency.
The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color’s Healing Together Campaign aims to end intimate partner violence by advocating for policy changes—and seeking healing for both survivors and the people who harm them.
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric.
Speaking out when we see misogyny in action isn’t an affront to other men. It’s an invitation to do better.
What really lies beneath the anger and aggression of traditional White masculinity.
Survivors of sexual assault like Christine Blasey Ford deserve our support, not our opposition.
Their coach, with his young son on his lap, just sat there and laughed. Here’s what happened next.
A Buddhist lama and an ex-priest discuss the benefits of turning off the noise in our daily lives.
This outdated, gender-specific, and illogical phrase is disrespectful and avoids the real issue.
Barbers in the South are training as first responders to assist the men in their chairs with their mental health concerns.
New York’s Thrive provides a model to the rest of the U.S. for supporting incarcerated men and helping them find stable housing, education, and employment after they’re released.
Kate Manne’s “Down Girl” describes the origins of a punitive social system that keeps women in their place by rewarding compliance and punishing resistance.
As feminist parents, we tell ourselves we’re trying to break down the gender binary. But what’s wrong with skirts and baby dolls?
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