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This research seeks to find the links between sexual harassment, bullying, and homophobic teasing. When bullying behavior takes the form of homophobic teasing, this may increase the likelihood of sexually harassing behaviors.

An important capacity-building goal of the Open Doors Project is to enhance the community collaboration between DV/SA advocates, community service providers and those working in the criminal justice and corrections systems. The goal of these collaborations is to facilitate a shared objective of keeping women safe and out of jails and prisons.

It is our hope that this manual will challenge assumptions, foster critical thinking, and provide a fundamental understanding of the needs of battered women in jail. Our goal is to support an ever-expanding community of people providing effective advocacy to battered women in jail.

This resource explores issues advocates should consider when facilitating (or thinking of facilitating) a group with battered women in jail or prison. In particular, it addresses the realities of working inside of correctional facilities and with incarcerated women, and the importance of understanding and considering these challenges when developing and/or running groups within prisons or jails.

In 2011, WCADV conducted 6 adult and 2 youth focus groups at DV programs in eight locations around Wisconsin. The purpose of these groups was to understand more about how DV has affected mother-child relationships and learn more about what these mothers and children need from DV programs. The focus groups were supplemented with information gathered from children in support groups in local domestic violence programs.

See more of WCADVs materials on Children and Youth at: http://www.wcadv.org/ourwork/children-and-youth

The project upon which this report is based invited African American women to express their views on services for victims and survivors of domestic violence, in particular the needs of survivors in low-income communities.

This guide describes “Where Do You Stand?,” a comprehensive bystander intervention campaign for college men. The guide teaches how to use the campaign to positively change the cultural dynamics of a campus.

A resource list compiled by Men Can Stop Rape of resources and organizations for male perpetrators of sexual violence.

A list compiled by Men Can Stop Rape of Mens Anti-violence organizations throughout the United States.

This article describes the motivation and philosophy behind the work of NOMAS, who is devoted to ending the whole range of men’s violence, against women, against children, and against one another.

Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a metro Atlanta-based organization that works to end male violence against women, uses an ecological, community-based accountability model as the foundation of its analysis of the problem of male violence against women and of its work with individuals and in communities.

This report describes the processes and lessons learned from the TIMM initiative to help state coalitions working to end domestic violence create or improve programs that educate and engage men in prevention and intervention.

This page provides the framework used by this organization for building the respect, care and value of women as leaders and in general.

This statement represents the mission statement of a group of queer-identified men as they work to address male privilege, patriarchy, and gendered oppression.

This paper discusses the process of acknowledging, addressing, and taking next steps to challenge male-supremacy and dominant culture patriarchy in activist spaces.

This report discusses the naming of the issue of men's violence against women. The author suggests that labeling is a political process that can minimize the impact and understanding of the violence and makes the problem abstract and difficult to address.

In this article, a white male activist discusses his experience of being confronted by women activists as sexist and addressing these concerns.

This brief resource presents critical questions to ask in an effort to deconstruct the political nature of sexism and male supremacy in your work.

This guidebook presents tools, stories, and lessons learned in mobilizing men to challenge sexism, rape culture, and violence in institutional settings.

In this post, Cook discusses how adults and other bystanders minimize act of sexual violence against athletes by their teammates. Writing it off as ÐhazingÓ and subscribing to myths about team unity building, these actions and in-actions fail to hold offenders accountable, discourage victims from coming forward, and create an unsafe environment for everyone involved.

The author discusses hazing as a form of institutionalized violence and explores it through a gender theory lens. Using gender socialization, discussion of sexual identity, objectification, and the intersections between gender, race, class and hazing violence, she discusses implications and makes recommendations for practice.

This issue addresses abuse within faith communities, intimate relationships, sexual violence during war, sexual violence within prisons, and working with gay men. It also discusses question oppression, highlights programs serving male survivors, and provides resources.

The authors discuss moving beyond risk reduction in rape prevention efforts to address ways that men can address rape culture on college campuses. Working from the perspective that both men and women are harmed by rape culture, men can be major allies in prevention work.

Reid argues that viewing pornography leads to developing an unhealthy view of sexuality and may promote sexually violence activities.