Doesn’t mention challenges of black and brown males
Straight white men who identify as men are hard to reach on the topics of mental health and “affirmative consent,” a mental health expert said in a virtual lecture last week.
Ross Szabo, wellness director at UCLA’s affiliated school for grades 6-12, said that “sometimes” his own white, heterosexual, cisgender male identity “can be a benefit” in reaching young men like him, even though it biases his perspective.
“Engaging Men in Prevention at a Young Age” was hosted by It’s On Us, which started in 2014 as an Obama administration initiative and is now part of the nonprofit Civic Nation.
Or buy the whole trilogy at Amazon and Bookshop
The key to gifting books is to know your audience: What do they like to read? For my history buff friends, I always recommend Wolf Hall and the other two books in Hilary Mantel s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell during the reign of Henry VIII (assuming they have not read them yet). Both Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies won the Booker Prize, and the third volume in the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was nominated. Awards aren t everything, but these books truly shine with unique storytelling, shifting perspectives, and prose that makes you feel like you re inside Cromwell s head.