Lutheran Settlement House’s new gender justice program for men takes on toxic masculinity

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'Social services nonprofit Lutheran Settlement House (LSH) is launching a nine-month gender justice training program for men in association with its anti-domestic violence campaign Men Can. The Masculinity Action Project (MAP) will convene 10 to 15 male-identified Philadelphians to learn about the root causes of toxic masculinity and what they can do about it, then make plans to implement those lessons via community projects.

Starting with a weekend-long retreat this October and meeting monthly through June 2019, participants will learn feminist movement history, discuss their own experiences with toxic masculinity and support each other in developing best practices for overcoming its effects.
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The end result for each MAP member will be an individualized plan they can bring back to their communities (their neighborhoods, church groups, workplaces, etc.) and implement for the sake of furthering gender justice.

But that end result is intentionally vague at the start: “We don’t know” what participants will come up with, said Vashti Bledsoe, director of LSH’s bilingual domestic violence program offering services in Spanish and English, “and that’s exciting.”'