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Healing Male Trauma
— I have worked professionally with literally thousands of traumatized young men. I have also worked with hundreds of traumatized girls and women. Healing male trauma successfully is a bit unique, in...
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How to Overcome Thine Own Self
— In Sunday morning Aikido class, I practiced letting the attack come to me: Receive the attack and let it pass me. We practiced from the strike with both the hand and the jo (wooden staff). Sensei...
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Male Stereotype Number Seven: Men Are Aggressive
I remember being taught, in multiple contexts, that the ideal behavioral approach to most situations is one of assertiveness, which falls within a spectrum between passivity and aggression. Passivity...
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Male Stereotype Number 21: Men Like Guns
Michael Moore’s award-winning 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine convinced me that there was and is a gun control problem in America. It helped that I was in middle school when the Columbine...
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Myles Taylor – Poem Envisioning the Opposite of Violence
By Button Poetry About Button: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry. We...
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How Fathers and Father Figures Can Help Children Cope With Violence
By Jackie Taylor With violent events in the news, such as recent shootings, children of all ages may be frightened for the safety of themselves or others. Fathers and father figures can play a crucial...
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Vandalism, Art Making, and Re-Making
While aimlessly scrolling on Facebook, I came across a news story about an art center named Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, that was completely vandalized by children ranging in age from 8-11 on...
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