Pro-Feminist Revolutionary Organization of Men (P-FROM)

None of us chose the world we're born into, the body we inhabit through this world, or the primary identity we have been built into. Many of us who are men--by happenstance or by choice--struggle with the expectations, limitations, and straight bullshit of masculinity. Some of us would like to form a group to support one another in our journey to being men who live in a world of healthy, safe relation the people around us.

We don't know how to do this, but together we can figure it out. Some of the questions that inspire us: what is a man, after all? What do we do--as men--that upholds the opppression of women, queers, and even ourselves and other men? how can we change ourselves and encourage change in others to actively oppose male violence? How have we digested the oppression of patriarchy, and how has it limited us in our own growth into freedom?

How can we develop practices of liberation that support the self determination of women and queers and all other identitiers oppressed by patriarchy? How do men who are tired of a militarized, hyper-masculine culture come together to build alternatives. We don't know, but we'd like to start figuring it out.

If you'd like to join us, we will be meeting (at least for now) from 6 pm to 9 pm on the first Tuesday of each month at the United Church of Christ at 615 W. Wellington Avenue.
The next meeting is on Tuesday, November 3rd.

There will also be P-FROM meetings at the Austin Library, 5616 W. Race Street, 5:30-7:30, on the second Monday of each month, next one is November 9th, and at the Lozano Library, 1805 S. Loomis Street, 5:30-7:30, on the second Thursday of each month, next one is November 12th.

Please feel free to pass this to anyone you think might be interested. This group is not a faith-based or specifically political group. Folk of all and no faiths, parties and creeds are welcome. We know at least this much: that there is strength in diversity.