Patrick McGann

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Vice President of Communications for Men Can Stop Rape
Location	United States
Introduction	Once upon a time I grew up in Lubbock, TX, where I caught horny toads, pulled tumbleweeds away from fences, played basketball at Christ the King High School, drank beer at Uncle Nasty's, and was sort of a regular guy. Then I moved with Abby, my partner, and our daughter to Chicago, where the last meat I ate some 20 years ago was a Parky's hot dog, and where I drove Fred Small, a progressive folk singer, to and from the 1992 National Organization of Men Against Sexism conference. Now I'm Communications Director for a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC called Men Can Stop Rape, which mobilizes young men to find and use their strength for creating a culture free from violence, especially violence against women. I'm still not quite sure how all of this happened.
Interests	reading novels, reading and writing cultural critiques, watching independent, documentary, and foreign films, reading graphic novels and drawing cartoons, making short documentary films and taking photos, writing, especially fiction and poetry, taking walks, eating good Mexican food, going to thrift stores
Favorite Movies	Kolya, Once, Wizard of Oz, Madadayo
Favorite Music	John Hiatt, Edwin Starr, Emmylou Harris, the Swell Season, El Vez, Joan Osborne
Favorite Books	A Death in the Family, They Came Like Swallows, Housekeeping, The Small Room, The Last Picture Show