Men's Action Project Schedule
Topics Discussed
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to provide a personal definition of what masculinity means to them.
- Recognize unhealthy aspects of masculinity that are harmful to the self and others.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize how masculinity is a social construct that can be deconstructed and reconstructed.
- Participants will be able to differentiate between sex, gender, and desire.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to explain intersectionality and its connections to sexual violence.
- Participants will be able to make connections between rape culture and racism.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will explore forms of self-care and identify ways to care for themselves.
- Participants will be able to describe healthy masculinity.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to define feminism.
- Participants will be able to recognize connections between gender inequity and sexual violence.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to connect unhealthy masculinity to violence against women.
- Participants will be able to recognize rape culture and how it affects their lives.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to connect how thoughts and emotions can contribute to unhealthy behaviors.
- Participants will be able to recognize the importance of emotionally intelligent masculinity.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify three ways to engage in healthy sexual practices.
- Participants will be able to recognize unhealthy norms associated with gendered bodies.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify elements of unhealthy relationships
- Participants will be able to recognize to identify what they need in relationships and how they can be better partners and friends
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to recognize effective ways for men to engage in anti-violence work.
- Participants will be able to identify three ways they can hold men/masculine folk accountable to healthy masculine norms.
Recruitment
The KU Men's Action Project is open to any undergraduate or graduate student who identify as men. This includes men/masculine folx whose gender identity, expression, and/or biological sex align with man, masculine, and/or male or otherwise have a nexus to masculinity. Cisgender, trans*, genderqueer, and gender non-binary folx who are interested are encouraged to apply.
Are you a student interested in applying? Please complete the application..
Are you a faculty, staff, or student who would like to nominate a student for this program? Please complete the nomination form.
Would you like more information on this program? Please contact SAPEC staff memberTaylor Jones.