Community Leaders Perspectives on White Men’s Allyship: Infographic Series
In a series of focus groups, seven community leaders including Black, Indigenous, and racialized people outlined their expectations of white men aspiring to allyship. Together, we synthesized these insights into three themes: (1) Resisting oppression: white men need to first understand that oppression is urgent, everywhere, and often invisible and taken-for-granted by white men; (2) Constructing white men: community leaders took the “power to define” and defined whiteness as a structural system, how white men are created by these systems, and the challenges this creates for white men aspiring to allyship; and (3) Expectations of white men seeking allyship to undo, learn & listen, commit, and act. The series is meant as a resource for social justice groups to share with white men seeking allyship, and for white men seeking allyship to process and reflect on how they may show up in these spaces.
Co-Authors: Jeff Halvorsen, Pam Beebe, Lemlem Haile, Omer Jamal, Fanny Oliphant, Abbas Mancey, Kamal Sehgal, Adrian Wolfleg, & Liza Lorenzetti.
Suggested Citation: Halvorsen, J., Beebe, P., Haile, L., Jamal, O., Oliphant, F., Mancey, A., Sehgal, K., Wolfleg, A., & Lorenzetti, L., (2023). Community Leaders Perspectives on White Men’s Allyship: Infographic Series. University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work.
Experiencing Masculinities Symposia Evaluation
Experiencing Masculinities was hosted in both Calgary and Edmonton in June 2018 by the Alberta Men’s Network and the Faculty of Social Work (FSW) at the University of Calgary, in collaboration with Alberta Network of Immigrant Women, Men’s Action Network Calgary, Men Edmonton, the City of Edmonton, Action Dignity, The University of Calgary, Women’s Resource Centre and numerous community leaders.
Suggested citation:
Lorenzetti, L., Wright, A., Haile, L., Murphy, D., Shankar, J., Hoyt, M. & Sehgal, K. (2018). Experiencing masculinities symposia: Sharing perspectives on liberatory and healthy masculinities and violence prevention. Calgary, AB: Alberta Men’s Network/University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work.
Experiencing Masculinities was hosted in both Calgary and Edmonton in June 2018 by the Alberta Men’s Network and the Faculty of Social Work (FSW) at the University of Calgary, in collaboration with Alberta Network of Immigrant Women, Men’s Action Network Calgary, Men Edmonton, the City of Edmonton, Action Dignity, The University of Calgary, Women’s Resource Centre and numerous community leaders.
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The Alberta Men's Survey: A Conversation with Men about Well-being and Healthy Relationships
This project was an attempt to identify, explore and understand the capacities and resources required by a diverse population of Albertan men over 18 years of age; the research engaged men to investigate the strengths and challenges they experience related to well-being, healthy relationships and violence prevention.
Suggested citation:
Lorenzetti, L., Lantion, V., Murwisi, P., Hoyt, M., Oliphant, F., Sadhwani, H., Oshchepkova, T., & Este, D. (2016). The Alberta Men’s Survey: A conversation with men about healthy relationships. Alberta Men’s Network, Calgary, Alberta.
Alberta Men’s Survey [AMS] was one of the milestones in a shared journey of Albertans from various backgrounds, nations and experiences; a journey towards healthy relationships free of gender based violence. The AMS was never meant to be a one-off academic exercise. This collective voyage began when a group of men and women1 allies realized that answers to everincreasing violence against women had to be found within the dominant beliefs, cultural practices and ideologies that inform and influence men themselves. The daily practices of masculinity, gender norms (rigid gender identity) and other forms of isolating or oppressive realities were considered. In addition, men’s often unacknowledged quest for well-being and personal healing emerged as having a central role in preventing violence in the next generations. In that spirit, the journey of this group, now identifying as Alberta Men’s Network [AMN], was inward looking as a first step toward becoming transformational.
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The research project was made possible by the collective effort of the Alberta Men’s Survey Leadership Team composed of representatives from Alberta Father Involvement Initiative, Alberta Human Rights Commission, Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services, Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA), Calgary Sexual Health Centre, City of Edmonton, Community Members, Edmonton/Evergreen Family Violence Committee, Ethno-Cultural Council of Calgary (ECCC), MEN Edmonton (ME), Men’s Action Network Calgary (MANC), Norwood Family Center, REACH, The Calgary Foundation, United Way of Calgary and Area, and University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, in collaboration with various community organizations and other service providers in Alberta. The project also received tremendous support from many individuals and organizations that contributed in different capacities at various phases of the initiative.
Project Funders / Supporters: Alberta Human Rights Commission, City of Edmonton, Alberta Father Involvement Initiative (AFII), Ethno-Cultural Council of Calgary, The Calgary Foundation, United Way of Calgary and Area, and University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work.