Andrew is a blogger, campaigner, performance coach, TEDx speaker and father to 5 children. His recent TEDx talk, "Domestic Abuse – Not a Gender Issue" was the first TEDx talk to be given by a male survivor of female-perpetrated violence. Andrew is also passionate about tackling parental alienation and family court injustice following his own experiences in the family courts, first as a non-resident parent, and then later, as a primary carer. [For a fuller profile, check out the speakers’ page https://icmi2020.icmi.info/?page_id=27.] This video is one of 120 videos published for the sixth International Conference on Men's Issues (2020), a conference originally planned for Sydney, Australia, but later turned into a virtual conference due to Covid-19. From #metoo to the American Psychological Association’s guidelines pathologizing “masculinity” as harmful, to Gillette’s razor adverts blaming all men for the actions of a damaged few, ideologically motivated groups have used unchallenged narratives of female victimhood to promote damaging stereotypes about men and boys, masculinity and men’s relationships to each other. More than ever before, recognition of men’s issues is needed. Men and boys deserve compassion, they deserve consideration for their unique needs, and they deserve our support. Men and boys also deserve respect for their unique contributions to society and an end to the promotion of unkind stereotyping of being harmful, abusive, toxic, selfish and hateful. We would not tolerate this stereotyping directed towards any other group. We are in an era of unprecedented ideological conflict. By reducing men’s ability to take a positive identity from their masculinity we are encouraging young men to pursue ever more radical ideologies to find a place to belong. In turn we are also encouraging young women to embrace an identity as society’s victims rather than its equal co-creators. International Conferences on Men’s Issues (ICMIs) have been held annually since 2014, with the exception of 2015: - Detroit (2014) - London (2016) - Gold Coast, Australia (2017) - London (2018) - Chicago (2019) Playlists of all 100+ presentations at the conferences are here, as well as playlists of the presentations at the Messages 4 Men conferences in London (2017-19) and the (UK) National Conference on Men's Issues, “Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too” (2020): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhX1c3ow6BrzdzP3ydpeZQ/playlists The conferences deal with the social and legal issues that disproportionately (or uniquely) affect men and boys. This year’s conference is being held online, with the publication of 120 videos (one per hour, every hour) from midday, Saturday, 14 November, to midday, Thursday, 19 November, 2020 (Internatio ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25Nid91XSM

We’re posting on this playlist videos of the 70+ Q&A sessions which took place after the presentations and interviews at the 70+ speaker seventh (online) International Conference on Men’s Issues http://icmi2021.icmi.info/speakers (13-19 December, 2021). The presentations and interviews themselves will be published at a later date, in March or April 2022, possibly later. If you wish to watch them before then please buy a ticket (£20.00) here https://icmi2021.icmi.info/tickets-2/. We currently expect ticket sales to end on 1 January. You’ll find on the conference website all 70+ presentations and interviews, and by buying a ticket you’ll help ensure the continuation of this remarkable conference series, which started in Detroit in 2014. The videos will be available on the conference platform until 13 June, 2022. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stv-kZhsnM8