Because You’re a Man, This Is Your Moment: Actionable Steps You Can Take Today
In this episode of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine, host Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney and guest Ukumbwa Sauti come together for a grounded and honest conversation about rape culture, accountability, and the role men can play in creating real change.
This episode invites listeners into a deeper understanding of how harm shows up in everyday life not just in extreme cases, but in language, silence, dismissal, and the normalization of harm toward women and girls.
Rather than staying at the level of awareness alone, Laura and Ukumbwa focus on what comes next: ACTION. Together they explore practical, real-world steps men, parents, and women can take today such as believing survivors, interrupting harmful behavior in the moment, supporting organizations that serve survivors, engaging with policy and legislation, and actively unlearning patterns rooted in patriarchy.
The conversation also highlights the importance of raising the next generation differently.
That means teaching consent EARLY, modeling emotional responsibility, and challenging harmful ideas about masculinity in homes, schools, and communities.
At its core, this episode is a call to responsibility without shame, and action without delay.
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Because change doesn’t start later, it starts with what you choose to do TODAY.
About Ukumbwa Sauti
Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Educator, Facilitator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men’s Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture. Ukumbwa has been a member and supportive of numerous local ,national and international organizations and movements advocating for Pan-Africanism, Anti-Racism, Relationship, Sexual and Intimacy safety and education and Men’s Development. Ukumbwa has presented across New England, USAmerica, California, Toronto and Barbados. He has worked as Social Media Director for Voice Male Magazine and an organizer for the Greater Boston Men’s Network and is currently the moderator for the Men’s Work Initiative.
Ukumbwa is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso. He does work as an educator of Dagara and African culture, numerology, readings, ritual work and spiritual counseling.
https://linktr.ee/UkumbwaSautiConsultantEducator
