The Good Men Project Publishes “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer”
I am really happy that The Good Men Project has chosen to publish a new of poem of mine called “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer.” Too often, I think sites like that ignore the potential for poetry to...
View ArticleA Response to AMM’s Comment on My Publishing a Poem at The Good Men Project...
In a comment on my post announcing the publication of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” at The Good Men Project (TGMP), AMM wrote: I visited the place a year or two ago and read a number of the articles,...
View ArticleIntervention
About a year and a half ago, as I walked home after work at about 11 PM, I passed a couple talking about thirty feet from the entrance to my building. The woman was leaning with her back against the...
View ArticleRomanticizing the “Ramblin’ Man” in The “Time Traveler’s Wife”
Last night, my wife and I finally watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I remember that she wanted to see it when it was in the theaters, but I don’t remember why we never got around to it. It is not a...
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Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well
Image originally published in Emma Magazine. I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl’s...
View ArticleTrying to Write after the Newtown Massacre
I have two pieces of writing to finish today, a chapbook manuscript that I want to submit to a contest and a blog post about Alyssa Royse’s in-so-many-ways-shameful “Nice Guys Commit Rape Too” essay on...
View ArticleThe Good Men Project: How Not to Have a Conversation about What It Means to...
First, a full disclosure. The Good Men Project (TGMP) has published three pieces of my writing. I will be discussing that fact in more detail in the second part of this series, but for those who don’t...
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I Objected To A Sexist Remark, And Contrary To My Paranoid Imagination, It...
I kind of hesitate to post this story, because it might seem like I’m asking for a cookie, and that isn’t my goal here. At the local LA Fitness, I attend the “swim fit” classes fairly regularly,...
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Why, After Jerry Sandusky and the Boy Scouts, is No One Asking “Why Boys?”
Author’s note: I have changed the title of the post so that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is not included. Even though the majority of victims in that scandal were, as far as I know,...
View ArticleA Poem for Leaving Patriarchal Male Heterosexuality Behind
I’ve been reading and thoroughly enjoying a poet too few people read these days, J. V. Cunningham. One day, I will write about why I think he’s worth reading and learning from, even though the kind of...
View Article“Being a Woman is Not a Tool to Punish or Humiliate Anyone”
Dilar Dirik has written a wonderful piece, Kurdish Men for Gender Equality, about a story involving Iran that is worth knowing about. In April of this year, a local court in Iran started sentencing...
View ArticleMale Feminism in 1914
I subscribe to Voice Male magazine, the tag line for which is “Changing Men in Changing Times.” It’s kind of like Ms. for the profeminist men’s movement. (Many of their issues are archived online; they...
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Reading the News While Trans
So, this happened: [Islan] Nettles was out with several other transgender women at 11 p.m. Friday when she ran across a group of men near West 148th Street and Eighth Avenue — directly across from the...
View ArticleRereading the Book Proposal for “Evolving Manhood”
So I am gearing up to write a book proposal for work that is connected to my Persian translations (about which more in subsequent posts). I’m using as my reference the same book that I used when I...
View Article“For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” is in Voice Male Magazine
This publication makes me very happy. If you don’t know about Voice Male, you should. My poem is on page 28 of the current issue: Related posts: The Good Men Project Publishes “For My Son, A Kind of...
View Article13-Year-Old Boy Suspended For Carrying Purse At School
From a Fox News site, credited to CNNwire, but also credited to KCTV: Boy, 13, Suspended Over Vera Bradley Purse Garnett, KS (KCTV) — A 13-year-old Kansas eighth-grader says he was suspended from...
View ArticleIntervention
About a year and a half ago, as I walked home after work at about 11 PM, I passed a couple talking about thirty feet from the entrance to my building. The woman was leaning with her back against the...
View ArticleRomanticizing the “Ramblin’ Man” in The “Time Traveler’s Wife”
Last night, my wife and I finally watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I remember that she wanted to see it when it was in the theaters, but I don’t remember why we never got around to it. It is not a...
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Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well
Image originally published in Emma Magazine. I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl’s...
View ArticleTrying to Write after the Newtown Massacre
I have two pieces of writing to finish today, a chapbook manuscript that I want to submit to a contest and a blog post about Alyssa Royse’s in-so-many-ways-shameful “Nice Guys Commit Rape Too” essay on...
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