Voice Male Magazine

09/16/2025

From our latest edition of Voice Male Weekly:

September brings fresh starts and new lessons—but as students return to classrooms, we have to ask: what are we really teaching boys this year?

School shapes how young people see themselves and their place in the world. For boys, it can reinforce old stereotypes OR open the door to authentic self-expression.

This week, we’re exploring how schools can nurture positive masculinity, where strength means vulnerability, leadership lifts others up, and emotions are gifts to embrace.

Let’s make sure the story we’re writing is one worth telling.

09/08/2025

Welcome to Voice Male Weekly—where the stories expanding masculinity find their home.

For too long, the most powerful conversations about men and masculinity have happened in scattered corners: a groundbreaking research paper here, a transformative workshop there, a community organizer doing incredible work in isolation. These stories deserve a bigger stage.

That's exactly what we're building. Through Voice Male magazine, Voice Male Talks (our events), the conversations happening in our online member hub, and now this weekly newsletter, we're creating something unprecedented: a storytelling ecosystem for the pro-feminist men's movement.

Every week, you'll find the stories that matter—ones about engaging, educating, and empowering boys and men (and those that love them) around gender and masculinity with news-you-can-use, tools, events, and more.

This movement is bigger than any one organization, program, or newsletter. It's a growing network of people committed to expanding what it means to be a man in the 21st century through curiosity, empathy, courage, and equity.🧡

Welcome to the home of those stories. Welcome to Voice Male Weekly.

08/22/2025

The momentum is building. Men asking harder questions. Boys finding new models. The old rules being rewritten.

Voice Male Fall 2025 is coming soon, and it's chronicling it all.

Become a Voice Male member now and get first access to the latest issue of North America's longest-running pro-feminist men's magazine. ➡️ nextgenmen.ca/join

06/25/2025

What does it take to train men to engage in equality?

It takes care. It takes accountability.
And as Dr. Steven Botkin reminds us… it takes showing up.

A pioneer of strengths-based, community-rooted work with men, Dr. Botkin helped reshape how we approach masculinity. His goal was to reconnect men with themselves and each other.

From founding one of North America’s first men’s centers in the 1980s to helping shape programs for and in 40+ countries, Botkin’s work continues to influence how men engage in justice, healing, and change.

From the pages of Voice Male Magazine, this is a legacy that proves has more than enough room for care, connection, and courage. And we’re proud to carry it forward—making space for a fuller, freer vision of what masculinity can be.

🔗 Read the full original article in Voice Male Magazine
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06/05/2025

For the curious . For the listening dads. For the brave dads. (And yes, even for the pun-loving, cargo-short-wearing, “just resting my eyes” dads.)

Let’s honour the men who are choosing to grow. The ones showing up with open hearts. The ones expanding what looks like.

This Father’s Day, give him something more meaningful than another wrench set he’ll “definitely use later.”

We’ve bundled Voice Male Magazine — the leading chronicle of the -feminist men’s movement — with your choice of one of our two card decks:

✨ “Boys Will Be” – bold affirmations that prove will be… whoever they decide to be.

✨ “Cards for Masculinity” – conversation starters so good, even your dad might talk about his feelings on purpose.

Perfect for the figures leaning into growth like they lean into dad jokes. The ones raising boys with heart. The ones doing the work (and not just in the garage.)

🎁 Save $5 on the Father’s Day bundle.

👉🏻https://shop.nextgenmen.ca/products/fathers-day-bundle

06/03/2025

Long before “healthy masculinity” was trending, Rob A Okun was already doing the work of challenging harmful masculinity norms. As the founding editor of Voice Male Magazine, Rob helped carve out a space where masculinity could be reimagined through a pro-feminist lens.

For decades, Voice Male has been a beacon in the pro-feminist men’s movement. It challenges silence with bold conversations. It holds space for new ideas. It pushes boundaries of what we think it means to be a man. And above all, it invites men into a conversation about feminism and modern masculinity, exploring the ideas of connection, compassion, and accountability.
Now, a new chapter is unfolding.

In Geoff Davie’s powerful tribute in the Fall 2024 issue of Voice Male Magazine, Rob’s Radical Act, we reflect on Rob’s lasting impact as he passes the torch to us at Next Gen Men.

So, what’s next for the pro-feminist men’s movement?

Join two generations of Voice Male leadership for a bold conversation about the future of Voice Male Magazine and the legacy it's shaping.

We’ll trace Rob and Jake’s personal journeys alongside Voice Male, exploring what first drew them to expand ideas about masculinity and how the magazine has served as a platform to challenge outdated norms while amplifying hope, healing, and humanity.

They’ll reflect on the moments that shaped their paths, the lessons they’re carrying forward, and their shared hopes for the future. 🙌

We’ll be taking a look at how real stories and lived experience can inspire transformation and build lasting change. Whether you’re a longtime reader or a new Voice Male member, come be part of this heartfelt and personal dialogue—and bring your questions for the Q&A! 📖

👉 This event is exclusively for Voice Male members.

🗓️Tuesday, June 10, 2025
📍12:00 PM 1:00 PM
📍FREE Online

🔗 Register here: https://www.nextgenmen.ca/events/the-next-chapter

05/23/2025

Join us for an intimate fireside chat with Rob A Okun, former publisher of Voice Male magazine, and Jake Stika, Executive Director of Next Gen Men and Voice Male magazine’s new publisher.

Hosted by Charlotte Kinloch, this conversation will explore the evolution of the pro-feminist men’s movement through Rob and Jake’s experiences, the shifting landscape of masculinity, and the power of storytelling to shape change.

Don’t miss this personal, powerful dialogue about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and what it means to show up for the future of masculinity.

June 10th at 12pm PT - Online in the Voice Male Member hub

Bring your questions for the live Q&A.

05/23/2025

OMG - Jackson Katz just gave us a shout out!

"Voice Male is getting a new publisher: the Canadian gender equity organization Next Gen Men. It’s thrilling they will be the new stewards of Voice Male, the primary chronicler for decades of the profeminist men’s movement.

I have often described Voice Male as the Ms. magazine of the antisexist, profeminist men’s movement. Since I’ve worked with Next Genn, I know they’ll do a great job of carrying on the tradition and playing this indispensable role."

We’re honoured to carry the torch as stewards of Voice Male. As our Executive Director Jake Stika says:

"Voice Male has long been illuminating the way; soon it will be up to us to shine a light on the path ahead... in profeminist men’s work."

A huge shoutout to Rob A Okun for decades of leadership — we’re grateful he’ll be sticking around as Editor Emeritus. 💛

Want to support this next chapter? Consider becoming a member or grabbing the latest issue to keep Voice Male thriving.

10/19/2024

A new episode of the podcast, NOW & MEN titled, The Presidential Election, Reproductive Rights, and a "New" Masculinity in the US

From support among men for Kamala Harris and abortion rights, to the sensitive leadership of men like Tim Walz, is a 'new masculinity' rising in the US?

08/14/2024

An important examination of the online lives of young men and how we can help them, written by two leaders in the field of gender equality.

Lots of young men feel adrift. As a result, they often find solace in violent spaces online.

07/31/2024

HOW "WHITE DUDES" MAY SHAPE MANHOOD THIS ELECTION

LONG BEFORE MORE THAN 190,000 MEN JOINED A “White Dudes for Harris” call on July 29, the common wisdom in the media suggested that most white men support extreme right causes and candidates. Not so fast.
“We’re taking white men back from the MAGA movement...

That white men organized—as white, male demographic—is among the many notable shifts in the 2024 presidential campaign. Before more than 190,000 men joined a “White Dudes for Harris” call on July 29, the common wisdom in the media suggests that most white men support extreme right causes and...

07/30/2024

WHITE DUDES FOR HARRIS UPDATE:
Last evening, 193,000 people attended the White Dudes for Harris call, raising $4.2 million; 150,000 signed up to help! For too long, white men were seen as unquestionably supporting right wing causes & candidates. For 50 years, men have been following women's lead, working for a gender equitable world. As a result of "White Dudes" our work is more visible than ever.