Authored by Joecephus Martin, Fahrenheit Creative Group and The Lighthouse | Black Girl Projects It’s easy for me to take sides in most things; there is a lot of black and white. But, as many students on college campuses across the country learn every day, there are also many shades of gray. Understanding what has contributed to campus cultures that have been permissive of sexual assault at times and loathe to act at others requires us to spend a significant amount of time inside the gray. Those grays can loom heavily over our campuses and our communities when we refuse to call things by the names they deserve. Simple and complex can share the same space at the same time. That is one of the beautiful aspects of humanity. So it is with patriarchy. Patriarchy influences men in ways we don’t always know how to discuss. We tend not to see—and sometimes choose to ignore— the ways we make life more difficult for women—the crux of patriarchy—and the ways that, ultimately, influence us. Men’s feelings and experiences are not things we’re taught to share or explore in any meaningful way. Our task is to be and know all the things … Continue reading Men are the Solution to the Man Problem