Creating Family

Objectives Young men will be able to: acknowledge the diversity of families in the world describe qualities of both caring and unsupportive families describe the kind of family they want to create identify the positive and negative pressures to have Read more... Read More

Creating Relationships

The following exercise has been adapted from Paul Kivel’s books Young Men’s Work and Young Women’s Lives.  Download the pdf by clicking the link below. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available Read more... Read More

Cultural Appropriation

From Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel The sense of entitlement white people are socialized to have leads directly to cultural appropriation: taking traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture Read more... Read More

Cultural Humility Podcast: Does Diversity Equal White Genocide?

Click below to listen to Paul’s interview with Dr. Miguel Gallardo, in which they discuss the question: “Does diversity equal white genocide?” You can access the direct link to the audio here. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions Read more... Read More

Declaration

Declaration from the Global Symposium on Engaging Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equity. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only Read more... Read More

Distractions

Adapted and Updated from Paul Kivel, You Call This a Democracy? Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, Albert Einstein, Daniel Webster, Andrew Carnegie, Louis Brandeis, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Mark Twain, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Emma Read more... Read More

Entitlement

From Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel Having benefits and being part of the culture of power encourages a person to develop a sense of entitlement to special treatment. Entitlement is the sense Read more... Read More

Environmental Justice

Adapted from Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism, revised 4th edition, New Society, September 2017 One of the most critical national and international issues we face is global warming including such visible effects as ice cap melting, rising temperatures and sea Read more... Read More

Examining Class and Race

I GREW UP BELIEVING THAT ALL AMERICANS have equal opportunity to succeed because there is a level playing field and affirmative action was no longer necessary. Since then, I have found this exercise useful to challenge our common assumptions of Read more... Read More

Eye to Eye: Gotta Get Down With Our Toddlers

I LOVED PLAYING WITH ARIEL when he was a baby. He cradled in my arm like my body was meant to hold him. I could carry him easily, close to me, on my stomach in a snuggli, on my back Read more... Read More