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In reply to the discussion: It's not feminism that hurts men [View all]

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
5. I was encouraged to see them talking about homophobia too
Fri Jun 8, 2012, 11:22 PM
Jun 2012

It cheered me to see football roll models telling that to a room full of adolescent boys who were lapping up every word.

I just googled to see if they said anything about transphobia and looked no further than the first result. This is really beautiful, but it deserves its own thread so I'll make one


2012 NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION INSTITUTE AND CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

The Women of Color Network (WOCN), in partnership with A CALL TO MEN, Share Time Wisely Consulting Services, and Clarina Howard Nichols Center, is excited to OPEN REGISTRATION for the 2012 National Call to Action Institute and Conference on July 9-13, 2012 in St Paul, MN.

The theme for this ground breaking experience is "Collective Empowerment, Collective Liberation". The framework for the NCTA Institute and Conference is based on the following guiding principles:

* Uniting women of color across ethnicity, race, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability, body type, faith, discipline, and locality for collective survival.

* Inspiring those working to be allies to aim for collective liberation in challenging racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, ageism and other forms of oppression and bias.

http://womenofcolornetwork.org/events/index.php

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