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"This book is an absolute must-read for parents, teachers, mentors, role models, uncles, grandparents, anyone engaged in influencing African-American boys and young men on their roads to adulthood."
"Braxton artfully deals with the complexities of sexual violence and race, successfully holding some Black men accountable for their violence. Braxton does an exceptional job issuing a charge to Black men to stand as an example of non-violence, largely through his own example. I highly recommend this groundbreaking book.!"
"Braxton's book is #metoo meets #blacklives matter. Part memoir, part model, part mentoring this work is a vital resource in the important effort to end sexual violence."
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What Boys & Men Should Know
We Need Men's Voices
Studies consistently report that as many as one in four women experience a sexual assault in their lives. Boys need not silently observe this violence against their friends and family members.
Boys Have a Place in a Global Movement
Most violent men are not social outcasts. They have male friends and family members. Boys and men can be mobilized to challenge violent men and remind them that there is no place for their behavior.
Manhood on Your Terms
Many violent men do not identify their behaviors as violent. They see their behaviors as normal for men. Likewise, many boys simply accept the conventions expected of them as unchangeable.
The Power to Harm
Violent men do not appear out of thin air. They were all once boys receiving training from peers. We can teach them to analyze that training and recognize that they have the potential to commit violence themselves.
Men Can Change Violent Men
Most violent men are not social outcasts. They have male friends and family members. Boys and men can be mobilized to challenge violent men and remind them that there is no place for their behavior.
About
Gordon Braxton
My time working against sexual violence led me to accept that men are responsible for the vast majority of intimate violence and that there are few forums for men to discuss the ways that we are trained to accept this violence. Most of us don’t spend enough time interrogating our social training and asserting our own notions of self. When we do so, many of us realize that all benefit when men approach claims about violent masculinity not as defensive combatants as we are often expected, but as complete human beings with the courage to accept that there is work to be done. There are many people who stand against male-perpetrated violence beyond those who survive it and we come from all kinds of backgrounds.
