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A Trans Man of Color Navigates Masculinity with Cultural Factors

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Will’s Trans & Multi-Racial Identity Chapter 7 © 2018 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW (pending in CA) #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo #TimesUp #LGBTQQIAAP #biracial/bicultural Bicultural/Multiracial Identity Factors Will holds many of the social struggles of his generation. He’s multiracial but was not raised around his “of color” culture. He’s trans, therefore, in some ways queer in a way that is “seen” in some ways and “hide-able” in ot

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Meet Will, a Trans Man (F to M)

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Meet Will, a Trans Man (Female to Male) Chapter 6 © 2018 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW (pending in CA) #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo #TimesUp #LGBTQQIAAP #biracial/bicultural Meet Will Will just transitioned a few years ago and is still sorting out the messages of his childhood as a girl, along with the newer male identity issues. A caring and activist-minded person, he carries the queer community issues along with the remaining cultu

Toxic Secret Keeping

In my view, we have a culture that conflates respect and confidentiality with secret keeping. There are multiple examples of how secret keeping either creates or exacerbates emotional harm. Secrets protect the abuse of power. Respect is conflated with fear of retribution or shame in powerful contexts. In a family, the perception of violating secret keeping (outing, ratting, revealing, exposing) may lead to being permanently ostracized. The resulting depth of loneliness is fel

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Meet Kyle

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Meet Kyle Chapter 4 © 2017 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW (pending in CA) On what would have been MLK’s 89th birthday #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo #TimesUp Introduction For me personally, one of the most interesting aspects of the developmental process of White allies is attached to the number of White people who are raised with horrendously negative prejudices, but somehow figure out that that narrative is deeply flawed. We, who are

Toxic Masculinity Challenged by Men Meet Louie

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Chapter 3 © 2017 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW (pending in CA) #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo Introduction This is the third in a series entitled, “Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men,” an effort to give voice to the process of Progressive men who are in various stages of the developmental process of becoming a better social justice advocate and/or ally. The focus will mostly be on White men, however Men of Color and Queer m

Toxic Masculinity Challenged by Men - Meet Joe

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men Chapter 2 © 2017 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW (pending in CA) #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo Introduction This is the second in a series entitled, “Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men,” an effort to give voice to the process of Progressive men who are in various stages of the developmental process of becoming a better social justice advocate and/or ally. The focus will mostly be on White men, however men of color and queer

Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men - Meet Darren

Toxic Masculinity Challenged by Men (c) 2018 Sherryl N Weston MA, MSW, LCSW Chapter 1 #WestcloudWisdom #MeToo Introduction This is the first in a series entitled, “Toxic Masculinity and Racism Challenged by Men,” an effort to give voice to the process of Progressive men who are in various stages of the developmental process of becoming a better social justice advocate or ally. The purpose of this series is to give human form to the suppositions about the legitimacy of certain

10 Ways to Make POC Activism More Effective

As with any job, there is stress involved in social justice work. The people who connect themselves to the long-term commitment of changing our world sacrifice time, energy and personal resources of many kinds. They also carry their personal burdens, biases and blinders of different sorts along for the ride. Everyone does. There is a notion that somehow personal matters are "on the shelf" when we are "at work," but that's only true to a point. We are human beings, not machine

MURDER, MENTAL HEALTH & MORALS Myths and misinformation have exacerbated the prejudices held in

#VegasShooting #MentalHealthbehavior #murder #mentalhealthshame #racialdoublestandards #guncontrol #misinformationonmentalhealth #mentalhealthstigma #mentalhealthandmurder #insanitydefense #WestcloudWisdom