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Human trafficking seems to never end. We catch one trafficker; there’s another one waiting. That’s why the human trafficking story does not really have the tidy, satisfying endings that it does in Hollywood. Instead, it’s a complex and multileveled conversation that lacks that finality that most people are looking for.
Read MoreThe Future of Masculinity sat down digitally with Danny Pérez, in Quito, Ecuador, where he and his team are producing the first episodes of Oreja Peluda, or “Hairy Ear,” a Spanish-language, NGM-backed podcast helping to undefine and reimagine what it means to be a man.
Read MoreAt Next Gen Men, we got our start in 2014, running after-school programs and reaching thousands of students across southern Ontario. But as more and people reached out for support, we saw a gap grow, between what was needed and what we could deliver. And the gap grew and grew. What could we do about it? So we decided to build a bridge.
Read MoreAs parents, educators and mentors for the young people in our lives, we have options, and we have hope. We can build our skills. We can do our homework and practise our craft. We can keep learning and unlearning, each building our own inner knowledge base through research and experience.
Read MoreNext Gen Men’s weekly email newsletter, The Future of Masculinity, recently sat down with Eric Arthrell, an NGM friend and facilitator of our B.O.O.K. Club program. He is also the co-author of Deloitte’s Design of the Everyday Man report, and, in this installment, he explores how those findings inform him in discussions with B.O.O.K. Club participants, and his own experiences as a stay-at-home dad.
Read MoreMany adults today are rooted in long-held friendships that took shape before the digital era. It is true that many boys have their deepest relationships with in-person friends at school, in their neighbourhood, or on their sports team. Yet it is also true that young people today have rich, meaningful and reciprocal relationships with peers that take place solely online.
Read MoreI’ve learned a lot about what it means to ‘be a man’ from trans people—both those moving past their masculine identity and those working towards it. Here are three books by trans authors that I feel offer some wisdom, or that offered some wisdom for me.
Read MoreThe second installment of our Q&A with NGM Community Manager Veronika Ilich, on Women's History Month and why we'd do well to reimagine it in a more nuanced and inclusive way—even if that means leaving the comfort of simple narratives and comfortable collective memories.
Read MoreNGM Executive Director Jake Stika shares a reflection that was first sparked by the abduction & murder of Sarah Everard in the U.K., and which then took on extra weight with hateful deeds that took place earlier this week in a shooting spree in Atlanta.
Read MoreI’m particularly interested in authors who view their protagonists with depth, range and emotional complexity. The characters in these books are role models for boys who do not always make the right decisions but do always strive to treat others—and themselves—with courage, compassion and integrity.
Read MoreTo mark International Women’s Day, we sat down with NGM Community Manager Veronika Ilich to discuss the meaning behind the day, and how its radical roots often get buried.
Read MoreWhy are we there? How should men show up for this day? Should we be handed microphones or should we sit back and shut up? We hear these kinds of questions every year, and we ask them ourselves too.
