ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the history of the men's movement, which will illuminate the ways in which feminism has provided a framework for its inception and focus. It discusses how men of color can learn from the methods of women of color to organize across communities and bring those who are most impacted to the center of the work in the gender-based violence movement. Men's involvement in feminism has been traced back as far as the Seneca Falls Convention. A similarity of both the feminist movement and the subsequent men's movement was that neither addressed the deep matrix of oppression and domination faced by communities of color and those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). Instead, in these spaces, women of color, men of color, and LGBT persons of colors' experiences and narratives were placed at the margins. Marginalized groups have repeatedly shared their frustrations with having been excluded from social movements, internally and externally.
