Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Ben Atherton-Zeman" <>]

Hello, friends!  Many of you know me as the author and performer of the 
one-man play, "Voices of Men."  I'm working on a new piece called the "Men's 
Monologues Against Violence" and I could use some help!

The "Men's Monologues" are inspired by Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues."  I 
am creating a performance that will showcase real men doing specific actions 
to stop men's violence against women - domestic violence, sexual assault, 
stalking, etc.  I had the honor of performing some of the Monologues at the 
Men Can Stop Rape national conference this past Spring.  

Ideally, the specific actions in the Monologues would be things most men 
could imagine doing.  For example, writing a one-man play and performing it 
in 43 states would be a bad example.  Creating a T-shirt design that 
celebrates conflict resolution and girl's empowerment (in response to a 
sexist T-shirt seen at K-Mart) as 9 year old David did in Maine, would be a 
good example.  

Do you know of a boy or a man who has done something to stop men's violence 
against women?  Are you such a boy or a man?  Then please contact me - I'd 
love to interview you for possible inclusion in the Monologues.

I'm looking in particular for men of color, gay and bisexual men, transgender 
men and men with disabilities.  But I'd love to hear from any man, or from 
anyone who knows such a man.  

Please help spread the word.  Thanks! 

Until the violence stops, Ben.  

Ben Atherton-Zeman, Maynard, MA USA
Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presenting a One-Man Play: "Voices of Men," http://www.voicesofmen.org ;(video 
clips available)
For booking information, please call 978-897-3619

"Black people who speak out about white racism are NOT racists.  White people 
who call black people racists for talking about race are trying to silence us 
so that we stop talking about race.Why do white people continue to remain 
silent in the face of racism?  Your silence, to me, is deafening!"
- Byron Hurt, award-winning documentary filmmaker and anti-sexist activist, 
http://www.bhurt.com ;
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