Category Archives: Men and masculinity

“For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” is in Voice Male Magazine

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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:

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Rereading the Book Proposal for “Evolving Manhood”

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 wrote the … Continue reading →

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Reading the News While Trans

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Grace Annam

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 housing bureau’s Police Service … Continue reading →

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Male Feminism in 1914

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 are definitely worth a look.) In … Continue reading →

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“Being a Woman is Not a Tool to Punish or Humiliate Anyone”

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 male convicts to being dressed as … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Leaving Patriarchal Male Heterosexuality Behind

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 poetry he wrote … Continue reading →

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Why, After Jerry Sandusky and the Boy Scouts, is No One Asking “Why Boys?”

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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, boys, girls … Continue reading →

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I Objected To A Sexist Remark, And Contrary To My Paranoid Imagination, It Was Easy

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Ampersand

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, because it’s good … Continue reading →

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The Good Men Project: How Not to Have a Conversation about What It Means to Be a Good Man – Part 1

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 know my work, … Continue reading →

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Trying to Write after the Newtown Massacre

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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 The Good Men Project that … Continue reading →

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