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Engaging men and transforming masculinities<\/h1><\/div>

We are promoting gender justice by engaging men and boys. Because gender equality also requires men to change.<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Emancipator is the only organization in the Netherlands that explicitly focuses on engaging boys, men and masculinity in gender equality. This is badly needed, because conversations about issues and problems involving gender often focus on women and lgbtqia+ people, while too often the core of the problem lies in oppressive masculinity norms. <\/p>\n

Transforming masculinities<\/h2>\n

Our work to engage men and boys contributes to women\u2019s and lgbtqia+ struggles for equality, and the liberation of men from traditional ideas about masculinity.<\/p>\n

We work to prevent violent masculinities and promote caring masculinities, challenging patriarchal masculinities and making men more human. <\/p>\n

Traditional masculinity norms not only cause problems for men themselves, but also for others and for the world. All kinds of personal and social problems can be traced back to rigid ideas about what it means to be a man. Feminism needs men for a better world and men need feminism for a better life.<\/p>\n

Emancipator<\/h2>\n

Emancipator is the Dutch expertise center for engaging men and transforming masculinities. We connect organizations, professionals and activists and show how masculinities link all kinds of topics to eaech other. We put masculinities on the agenda and inspire and support people and organisations to promote engaging men in their own work. <\/p>\n

We also offer advice, workshops and trainings for schools, organisations and companies, around all topics relted to masculinities and gender equality. We have worked with Heineken and Gillette<\/a>, municipality of Amsterdam and Utrecht, ROC Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, and many other local and national governments, organisations and companies. <\/p>\n

We are the change<\/h2>\n

Emancipator doesn’t only bring a new perspective \u2013 engaging men and transforming masculinities as essential part of the solution to gender justice \u2013 but also a new way of working. We don’t just want to work towards change that will happen later, somewhere else, but we want to make that change happen here and now. The way we work and collaborate is consciously and explicitly anti-patriarchal and regenerative, and makes space for people in their full humanity and in genuine contact with each other. Read more about that here: we are the change<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Projects and topics<\/h2>\n

Masculinities are relevant in almost all societal issues questions. In our projects we work to prevent gender-based and sexual violence and street harassment (NAP, Safe Cities, White Ribbon, Tackling street Harassment); promoting caring masculinities, in involved fatherhood or encouraging men in jobs traditionally regarded as feminine (Alliance Becoming Who You Are); equal political representation (Alliance Politica); extreme-right politcal movements and how they mobilise masculinities (MEN4DEM). Other themes that are directly or indirectly linked to masculinities and engaging men are sexuality, sexual and gender diversity, the climate crisis, militarisation. <\/p>\n

Besides these projects we offer workshops and trainings (Our offer<\/a>). Every year we organise a weekend, and regularly other activities and events (Calendar<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Contact us<\/h2><\/div>

Looking for expertise or an interview. Get in touch with us: call Jip at +31 6 83561841, send an email to info@emancipator.nl, or fill out the form below.<\/p>\n<\/div>