I have spent the last four years of my life working on the protection of boys from sexual violence. I literally travelled across the world to learn from front line practitioners how to protect boys and transform their understanding of what it means to be a boy and a man. From Bolivia to Cambodia, then from Namibia to France, I had the privilege to see how these amazing individuals engage with boys and support them in ways that not only protect them, but also liberate them from rigid ideas of masculinity.
In my travels, I could also see how that same rigid idea is engrained in boys’ minds from a very young age. I have seen how social workers, teachers, community educators, and others, had to come up with new ways and constantly be creative to reach out to boys and show them that an alternative existed. That boys could be vulnerable, that boys could ask for help, and that boys could care
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