🔈 We're excited to share '10 Ways to Engage Men & Boys to Counter Backlash,' a new guide from the Men, Masculinities and Countering Backlash Collective, including @thesvri.bsky.social and @ids.ac.uk. We launched this resource on the sidelines of #UNGA80. Read in full at www.menengage.org !

🌍 Happy #WorldContraceptionDay! It's a day to reaffirm our commitment to #SexualAndReproductiveHealthAndRights for everyone. We join members and partners around the world in putting a spotlight on a critical piece of the puzzle: male accountability, engagement, and partnership in contraception use.

MenEngage Europe's member Murat Göç (he/him) shares his experiences leading workshops with men and boys in Turkey. Head to the #MenEngage website to read the full Meet a Member Q&A. buff.ly/T9A1tZb #GenderEquality #MenAndMasculinities #Accountability

Our Senior Associate, @rlevtov.bsky.social, joins a timely conversation hosted by @menengage.bsky.social on how digital spaces shape harmful gender norms—a crucial first step toward building safer, more positive spaces. 📅 Sept 10  👉 Register: https://cutt.ly/frX8OWx4 #ThoughtLeadership

How we understand masculinity is deeply connected to the climate and environmental emergency. Writing for uk.theconversation.com, Michael Joseph Richardson explores the links. Check out the full article here: theconversation.com/why-modern-m... ---

Join us in Celebrating Young Feminist Leadership on International Youth Day | 12 Aug 📅 Date: 12 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 5:30 PM IST / 8:00 AM EDT 📍 Platform: Zoom 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/12IYD25

Join us in Celebrating Young Feminist Leadership on International Youth Day | 12 Aug 📅 Date: 12 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 5:30 PM IST / 8:00 AM EDT 📍 Platform: Zoom 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/12IYD25

How we understand masculinity is deeply connected to the climate and environmental emergency. Writing for uk.theconversation.com, Michael Joseph Richardson explores the links. Check out the full article here: theconversation.com/why-modern-m... ---

We spoke with our members around the world about anti-gender #backlash. Our latest report shares their grassroots insights on this global pushback on women's rights, LGBTQI and gender equality - and shares ways forward for how we can address it more effectively.

It is important for us to move towards ethics of care and away from rigid ideas of masculinities rooted in violence, exploitation and domination over people and planet. We urge negotiators at #FFD4 to move towards: debt justice and a UN Framework Convention on Debt now! #FFD4People

#G77: No country should be made to choose between paying debt service and fulfilling human rights. 📢Stand firm and hold true in #FFD4 to the interests of your peoples in the Global South. #FeministRedFlag #FFD4People @AfricanUnionUN @NepalUNNY @PakistanUN_NY @PakistanPR_UN @genderprofs

Today's the last day of the Feminist Forum ahead of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development that will officially start from Monday, 30 June. Whether online or in-person, join the feminist RED FLAG campaign. #FFD4People #FeministRedFlag #Feminists4FfD

Mabel Bianco president and founder @FEIM leads the feminist call for financing by making it clear that "more than words, we need actions. We need commitments. We need money, which is always used as an excuse for inaction." #FeministRedFlag @globalpolicyforum.bsky.social @arrowomen.bsky.social

We join the feminist movement in calling for: Redefine progress: beyond GDP, we need feminist indicators that value care, climate, and wellbeing. As said by Misun Woo, @APWLD Regional Coordinator, "we call for a macro economic system that is based on care, justice and equality"

📢 Can inclusive multilateralism deliver a fairer international debt system? Join us at #FfD4 in Sevilla on 1 July for a side event on reforming the global debt architecture. 📍 Palacio de Congresos 🕙 10:00–11:30 CEST 🔗 lnkd.in/ehGUxJbe With @venro.org @fesonline.bsky.social @boell.de + others.

🚀 We’re at the #FeministForum (June 27–28)! Joining feminists CSO to push for: ✔️ Tax justice ✔️ Debt cancellation ✔️ Feminist macroeconomics The fight for a fair financial system starts now—before #FfD4 kicks off July 1. #FeministRedFlag #Feminists4FfD @arrowomen.bsky.social

Today marks the start of the feminists' and civil society's preceding events ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Learn how we have been preparing for the Conference and more in our latest newsletter 👇 mailchi.mp/arrow/update... #FfD4 #FfD4People

Exciting news from MenEngage Alliance: members in Korea are set to launch on 9 July a Korean MenEngage network. Call to members of MenEngage Allaince: If you want to celebrate the launch of K-MEN, please fill out this form by Friday, June 28: bit.ly/CongratsK-MEN

‪"Transforming masculinities is about being free to be the complete human that you are, in the fullness of everything that would be considered either feminine or masculine" - Jip Mars, Communications and Strategy Officer at @emancipatornl.bsky.social‬ Check out the full interview: bit.ly/JipMars

🌍MenEngage members—Day 3 of the Global Members’ Assembly is TODAY!💥 We’re closing with one joint session for all regions 🕘9–11:30am ET, with live Spanish & French interpretation. 🌿 Join us as as we deepen our discussions on #backlash and #collaboration. bit.ly/Assembly2025...

🌍 MenEngage members—Day 2 of the Global Assembly is TODAY! 💥 🕛 12–2pm CAT/CET (with FR translation) 🕚 11am–1pm ET (with ES translation) Join members like Lynn Eliot (White Ribbon UK) to reflect and share insights on building #solidarity in the face of #backlash against #genderequality.

🌍🔔 The MenEngage Global Members' Assembly has it's second day today, 18 June. We are running two different timeslots so if you miss the early session, you can join the later one. bit.ly/Assembly2025...

🌍 Part of the MenEngage Alliance? Join us TOMORROW for Day 2 of the Global Members’ Assembly! 💥 🕛 12–2pm CAT/CET (with FR translation) 🕚 11am–1pm ET ( with ES translation) Join members like Angela Pino to hear from each other about how regional/global #backlash is shaping the direction of our work.

"Global learning allows for collective growth and support in contexts of #resistance, where the #transformative as a political element of change faces multiple challenges" - Kique Gomez, Punto Focal Peru 🌍 Join the MenEngage Alliance Global Members’ Assembly at 12–2pm CAT/CET or 11am–1pm ET TODAY💥

La semana que viene participaré en la Asamblea Global de Miembros de @menengage.bsky.social. MenEngage es una alianza de más de 1.100 organizaciones y especialistas en 5 continentes que trabajamos con hombres y chicos por la igualdad. Si perteneces a la red 👇 menengage.glueup.com/event/global...

Our Core Principles aren't just words—they're the shared values and beliefs that unite a global community for working with men and boys for #GenderEquality.. Learn more about what drives this global network at menengage.org/about/core-p... #Masculinity #GenderJustice #HumanRights #Feminism #Men

We're delighted to share these words from Alex Nelson, co-chair of our #Youth Reference Group & part of North America MenEngage Network. Are you a joining? What are you hoping for this year's event as we discuss collaboration in an era of backlash? Find out more: bit.ly/Assembly2025...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #Pride month is a time to honour the histories, power & beauty of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in all their diversities. It is a moment to march in solidarity & celebration of the progress made toward #LGBTQIA+ rights, dignity, & visibility globally.

UN member states’ve committed to policies & programs to ‘engage men & boys in efforts to achieve full, effective & accelerated implementation of #BPoA, incld. by addressing gender norms & #stereotypes 🌎al policy trends @menengage.bsky.social advocacy efforts #CSW69 menengage.org/resources/me...

Pushback against #GenderEquality is real. The "war on men" narrative is radicalizing young men online. How do we inspire boys & men to become allies for #GenderJustice? 💡🧵 7 tips from #MenEngageCoLab w/ Saswati Chatterjee (Breakthrough) & David Garzon (White Ribbon). #masculinity

Can studying literature be an antidote to #misogyny? A thought-provoking piece in @tesmagazine.bsky.social‬ shares how stories can nurture empathy and emotional literacy. With UK boys in the increasingly choosing STEM over literature, this article says why this trend should shift: buff.ly/D5IMu7l

Misinformation and misogyny are spreading online faster than ever. Patriarchal narratives are moving from the fringes of the online world to the mainstream. 📱🌐 #Backlash #GenderEquality #Manosphere

"I am working hard, and will continue till my last breath" Dr Radha Paudel, @dignified_menstruation - Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation. Read the full Meet a Member feature here: bit.ly/MaMRadha

Today, on the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) 2025, we reaffirm our solidarity towards creating a world where the diversity of gender and sexual expressions are just simple, everyday, ways of being. See our Statement here: bit.ly/2025idahobit

CONSULTANCY: Youth Engagement Strategy Seeking independent consultant(s) to conduct an external progress assessment of MenEngage's Youth Strategy (2021–2024). Apply: bit.ly/MEYouth Deadline: May 30th, 2025. ToR: bit.ly/YouthToR2025

For The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social, Leo Reich unmasks absurd & harmful ideas about #masculinity spread through the #manosphere, and the violence of relegating people with marginalised identities as 'not real'. Read more: observer.co.uk/news/columni... #genderequality #transrights #humanity

‘States have the power to build resilience against radicalisation through education systems’. This was one of several powerful messages put forward by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic from Men Against Violence #Malta, & co-chair of MenEngage Europe, at the #OSCE Chairpersonship Conference on #GenderEquality

In #Zambia, gender-transformative initiatives and actions are engaging teenage boys to prevent gender-based violence and build a more equal and just society. Read here: buff.ly/0GCwkck #GenderBasedViolence #Masculinity #GenderEquality

This 22nd May, #MenEngage CoLab (May 22) unpacks this with @PreventionCollab & @FISDLanka: 🔸 The gendered dimensions of alcohol use 🔸 Sri Lanka’s Happy Families model 🔸 Why we need cross-field collaboration 🌍 Session in Eng and Spanish + AI translations 🔗 bit.ly/CoLab22May

When boys and men are taught not to be caring or nurturing, that is #patriarchy at play. When society tells boys to prioritize dominance, physical strength, to stifle emotion, & avoid relying on others, it normalizes & even encourages actions rooted in these traits, including aggression & violence.

In this article for @CNN, journalist @donie.bsky.social shares his experience delving into the manosphere in the US United States, and how far-right voices are able to paint marginalised groups as the source of men's problems in life. Read more in his write-up here: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/13/u...

"Engaging men is not about blame, but about responsibility and possibility." – Edwick Madzimure, WILPF Zimbabwe shares in our latest Meet a Member feature. Read the full story here: bit.ly/Edwick

Young women are continuing to move away from traditional gender norms, while gen Z men more likely than millennial and gen X men to believe in them' reports @theguardian.com. It's time governments & institutions with roles in boys & men's lives to take bold actions to address the trend of misogyny

What Netflix’ Adolescence Can Teach Us About How We See Boys - a reflection by Jonathon Reed from @nextgenmen.bsky.social and member of North America MenEngage Network (NAMEN) www.nextgenmen.ca/blog/what-ne...

Of all the conspiratorial and extremist communities I have followed, the manosphere has felt the most perniciously dangerous, because it exploits men’s real pain and struggles, and directs their anger towards women, says @cecilesimmons.bsky.social writing for @bigissue.com.

A future based on care for people & planet is possible. And it goes hand-in-hand with the work to unlearn harmful stereotypes, expectations, norms & attitudes about how men are or should be. We must tap into our shared humanity for care & kinship with people & the planet this #EarthDay and every day

📣 We are hiring Deadline: 31st May. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. See here for more details: bit.ly/ToR31May

The UK #uksupremecourt has ruled that a woman is defined by 'biological sex' under the country's equalities law. We know that in reality, sex and gender is far more complex, diverse and fluid than that. We stand with trans people everywhere, and with #TransRights groups.

📢 For all the latest news, events, links & tools on #men, #masculinities, & #GenderJustice, check out the latest edition global MenEngage Alliance newsletter. Available in: English: bit.ly/EN16APR Español: bit.ly/ES16APR Français: bit.ly/FR16APR Not subscribed? Sign up at bit.ly/MenEngageNew...