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Healthy Masculinities

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Tools to Initiate Community Conversations that Explore Gender, Reimagine Masculinities, and Build Healthy Relationships

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November 1, 2022

New Mexico Healthy Masculinities 2023 Open Grant Cycle

NewMexicoWomen.Org is launching the 2023 Healthy Masculinities open grant cycle. This program emerges from the work of the NM Healthy Masculinities Collaborative over the past two years of developing the NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit. It also stems from NMW.O’s past research. Learn more here!

September 20, 2022

New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit Virtual “Train the Trainer” Event

Members of the Healthy Masculinities Collaborative recorded this “Train the Trainer” workshop to provide an overview of how to use the toolkit by members of the Healthy Masculinities Collaborative.

The New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit is a collection of readings, workshops, and exercises aimed at helping audiences reimagine masculinities, raise awareness about the concept of healthy masculinities, and provide skills and resources that promote self-awareness, healthy relationships, and thriving communities.

It is designed to act as a guide for facilitators to frame and engage in conversations and activities around healthy masculinities. It is important to note that this toolkit is a living document, co-created and co-authored by many people in a community of practice. We welcome feedback and intend to update the toolkit periodically in response to community input and wisdom.

The toolkit is intended to help catalyze, facilitate, and continue conversations about healthy masculinities. We know that it may take generations to truly heal from the harms of patriarchy. This toolkit is not framed to heal individual or collective trauma; however, it may lead to transformations and understandings that contribute to such healing. This toolkit offers us the opportunity to become more aware of our conditioned behaviors in order to disrupt the harmful impacts of patriarchy.

The New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Collaborative is a multi-gendered and inter-generational group of organizations and individuals from diverse racial and geographic communities across New Mexico. It was formed in 2018 to identify programs across the state that engaged men and boys, along with trans, and gender nonconforming communities, and to review existing resources and curricula focused on masculinities. The analysis and work of the Collaborative is deeply intersectional, and seeks to hold space for the various complex facets of our identities that intersect with gender. As a multi-gendered Collaborative, we have had to pay attention to the gender dynamics within our group and engage in courageous, vulnerable, and difficult conversations and opportunities for us to practice accountability with each other in relation to healthy masculinities. We aim to live our values together as a community of practice that is seeking to reimagine masculinity and heal patriarchal gender wounds. A key reflection for members of the collaborative has been that we are the work.

Collaborative partners include:

The Collaborative aims to develop educational and communication resources to help the public reimagine masculinities and raise awareness around the concept of healthy masculinities. This toolkit is the result of our work over a two-year period. It is important to note that this two-year period began in February 2020 and this work largely occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Collaborative was unable to meet in person for two years and this toolkit was developed virtually, which has had impacts on the outcome. We look forward to continuing the process of editing and refining this toolkit collectively as we return to meeting in person.

For information about the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Collaborative and the toolkit, please contact Fatima van Hattum at fatima@newmexicowomen.org

We deeply appreciate the following folks for reading and providing feedback on the draft version of this toolkit (listed alphabetically): Michael Barrio, Dr. Peggy Bird, Maȟpíya Black Elk, Ana Lopez, Matt Mirarchi, Gina Montoya, and Jill Potts. We are grateful for the wisdom of the following community members, who have contributed knowledge, stories, and practices to the thinking and work of the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Collaborative: Loren Anthony, Kevin Beltran, Joan Brooks Baker, Xavier Barraza, Nathana Bird, Daniel Benitez de Luna, Scott Davis, Rolando Fernandez, Albino Garcia Jr., Christian Gering, Veronica Iglesias, Patrick Jaramillo, Rod Kaskalla, Beckie Masaki, Jonah Melchor, Kevin Moeller, Chasity Salvador, Elder Kathy Sanchez, Omar Torres, and Taslim van Hattum.

This work has been developed by community members located throughout the State of New Mexico who reside on the ancestral lands of Pueblo, Diné, and Apache people, as well as the traditional homeland of our Mestiza and Indo-Hispana ancestors who came after.

Support for this toolkit was provided by our funding partners at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Womadix, NewMexicoWomen.Org, and the Ceiba Fund.

We appreciate local and national groups engaged in work around healthy masculinities.