Why Black Men Are Natural Allies to the Movement to End Sexual Violence...
As this is my initial posting on alliedthought.com, I feel that there are two things that I must do in kicking off this blog. The first is to thank everybody for taking the time to read my thoughts....
View ArticleThings I Think About When Carrying a Woman Out of a Club
Not so very long ago, I was in a local club celebrating a friend’s birthday. I rode to the club with another friend and his female cousin (whom we shall call Tiffany in order to protect the innocent)....
View ArticleSeeing Beyond The Well
I have just returned from a three-week visit to Japan and South Korea feeling renewed. This is not only because I was able to get my hands on some outstanding ramen and bulgogi but because the entire...
View Article10 Ways In Which Women Need To Get Their Acts Together
My title is meant to be satirical but I fully believe that my writing would gain more traction with folks if I did adopt messaging along the lines of the title. It seems to me that there is a...
View ArticleThinking About Game
I first started speaking on sexual violence prevention as a peer educator in college. At that time, it was not uncommon for my friends to note my presence at parties with some surprise that I would be...
View ArticleDo We Avoid Reaching Out To Men Because They Don’t Read?
Several weeks ago, I wrote about the abundance of male pundits that have built careers on giving advice to women while there has been no reciprocal movement of women speaking to men (see here). A...
View ArticleViolent Sexual Wordplay Matters
There was an all-female peer education program on my college campus that challenged students to consider the terminology that we use for sex. They would ask audiences to identify common vernacular for...
View ArticleWhen Is It OK To Challenge Violent Celebrities?
“The fight of the century” between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has now come and gone so this is a good time to reflect on the fights that I had leading up to it. Like many men, I spent a...
View ArticleWho To Blame?
At least two Black male celebrities have drawn attention of late for voicing solutions to social problems that rested on women. While promoting his new film Chi-Raq, Spike Lee recently urged female...
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