Jewish Male Violence

AFTER I HAD WRITTEN Men’s Work, a book on male violence, and after I had worked with incest offenders and batterers and had even said that I am never surprised to learn that any man is a batterer or Read more... Read More

Jewish People

When I’m in a workshop on racism, and the facilitators tell everyone to break up into a white group and a people of color group, I immediately want to say, “Wait a minute. I’m not white.” There are many white Read more... Read More

Keynote – Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga

Men’s Work: To Stop Male Violence – Paul addresses the National Network of Stopping Violence in Auckland, New Zealand. He discusses Men’s Work, the cultural and economic context of violence prevention, and the connections between power, wealth, and violence.   Read more... Read More

Land and Housing

Land is wealth. It is the foundation for housing, the source of food, the producer of wood, minerals, oil, gas and other resources, the location of industry. The history of racism in the United States can be traced to people’s Read more... Read More

Learning Adultism

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 for noncommercial purposes and with an attribution to Paul Kivel, www.paulkivel.com. Creative Commons Attribution Read more... Read More

Let’s take action workshop by Paul Kivel

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Love Extremist Podcast: White Men Standing Up for Collective Liberation

Paul Kivel talks about love, privilege, interdependence being Jewish, and how white men can play a role in our collective liberation.   Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All Read more... Read More

Man to Man

THE LETTER BELOW IS SOMETHING I wrote to address individual men in communities that I live, work and play in because we still, all too often, assume that “our” men have it together and are safe and non-abusive in their Read more... Read More

Men’s Attitudes and Costs to Women

(Can also be used as a group exercise) By: Paul Kivel Adapted from Men’s Work: How To Stop Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart (1998) At the Oakland’s Men’s Project we developed an exercise to help men see the cost Read more... Read More

Men’s Costs Exercise

Adapted from Allan Creighton Tell the group that you are going to read a series of statements and that each male to whom a statement applies should stand up after that statement is read. Tell the group that every man Read more... Read More