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In this Leadership Weekly, we hear from men calling on men to use their power to proactively disrupt patriarchal and racist leadership and organizational practices. Each author details from his own civil society vantage point the incalculable price of men—white men in particular—not examining their own belief systems and humbly joining the work of pursuing equity for all people. Read on!
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Keith Kaminski calls out the pervasiveness of toxic masculinity in the nonprofit sector and the harmful effects of “hypercompetitiveness,” “dominance and intimidation,” and “paternalism” on staff and the communities they serve. While women enact toxic masculinity too, Kaminski argues that men must “step up to leverage their privilege, not to further their own benefit as has historically been the case but instead to further the cause of equity for all.” Read more...
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In “A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Certain Age,” writer and former nonprofit executive Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to white men who are seeking their own authentic response to anti-Blackness. “We do not need you to start another nonprofit to save us or to join another board to help us,” he writes. Instead, he argues that the deep and uncomfortable work on self is where white men have to begin. Read more…
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The aforementioned Dax-Devlon Ross has a full-length book coming out in June called Letters to My White Male Friends. In it, he offers white men “direction so that they can take just action in their workplace, community, family, and, most importantly, in themselves.”
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