Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

What are concrete strategies to counter male supremacist ideology and violence? Our new white paper urges P/CVE fields to see it as a structural force, not just a fringe issue. Full paper on our website: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4amajt2w

The PROOFS are here! I'm delighted to share that, after a little delay, our edited volume 'Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right' is to be published soon. Edited by Iris Segers, @audreygagnon.bsky.social, @drkondor.bsky.social, @gretajasser.bsky.social, and yours truly.

It’s #invisibledisabilitiesweek and I am a nonprofit executive director with chronic illness. This post is in honor of @irms.bsky.social interns who were dealing with health struggles, & said knowing that I have Crohn’s Disease and accomplished so much opened up the options they saw for themselves.

Our registration page states we provide support for financial hardship, but I want to emphasize our commitment to reaching beyond “Western” voices that dominate extremism and radicalization studies. Email contact@theirms.org to request support for our male supremacism studies conference or courses.

I want to elevate to interested participants in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East that we provide scholarships for financial need. Some of our presenters flagged that the registration can be prohibitive in certain countries due to the USD exchange rate.

Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was hit over the head and raped in Maricopa County while repairing a damaged campaign sign in August. "I need to let women know that it's okay to talk about it," she told me. Full story: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

I am so excited that part 2 of the @irms.bsky.social white paper, "Countering Male Supremacist Ideology and Violence: Challenges and Recommendations," is live! Took a Sunday night push until 4am to carve out the time to get the last of the edits and citations finished www.theirms.org/publications...

We're opening up a fall session of our popular Introduction to Male Supremacism course, after this summer’s engaging classes! The 6-session course will run Oct 19 to Dec 6, and we are very pleased to welcome back @elierlick.bsky.social as our fall course instructor. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Why would some women support misogynist movements? I discussed for this article how such women see themselves as different from the women these ideologies demonize. “It gives them status and elevates them over the oppression they would otherwise face.” But this is an imagined distinction.

IRMS Fellow Hanah Stiverson was quoted by The 19th examining the new HHS report on gender ideology and left-wing authoritarianism. She called it "clearly politically biased." 🔗 Read more: 19thnews.org/2026/09/hhs-...

📃New Article by IRMS Fellow Catherine Baker: "Is the Far-Right Anti-Science? Metapolitics and Struggles for Epistemic Authority" is an examination of how the far-right engages in selective attacks and appropriation of science. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2026.2697190

New chapter: In “On the outside always lurking in” IRMS fellow Allysa Czerwinsky reflects on years spent searching misogynistic incel forums as an openly queer woman. 🔗https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003671619-48/outside-always-lurking-allysa-czerwinsky

New Article: “From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit” by Allysa Czerwinski analyzes how everyday Reddit users push back against manosphere ideology. 🔗Read the article here: gnet-research.org/2026/08/07/f...

New book from IRMS Fellows Hannah Stiverson & Meredith Pruden: Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the "Everyday" for Extreme Ends, a new framework for understanding fascism as it operates online. Essential for anyone concerned about the fragility of liberal democracy. tinyurl.com/mryb56na

A rare funding opportunity for trans journalists and journalists, covering the trans community to receive a stipend for professional development.

Check out the recently published article by IRMS fellow Lisa Sugiura on drug-facilitated rape here: theconversation.com/since-gisele...

📢 LAST CALL to register for the Intro to Male Supremacism course: Discussion sections are scheduled for Tuesdays at either 1pm ET/17:00 GMT or 8pm ET/00:00 GMT. First session: Aug 11, after which enrollment closes. Register here: www.theirms.org/course-regis...

📢 A few days left to register for the Intro to Male Supremacism course: Discussion sections are scheduled for Tuesdays at either 1pm ET/17:00 GMT or 8pm ET/00:00 GMT. First session: Aug 11, after which enrollment closes. Register here: www.theirms.org/course-regis...

IRMS preconference at ASA 2026, NYC: "Pursuing Impact Scholarship: Approaches in Disrupting Authoritarianism, Disinformation, and Male Supremacism." Fri, Aug 7, 9am–5pm. Featuring three cofounders of IRMS & speakers Jennifer L. Pozner & Aya Taveras. Registration: buff.ly/4v0NcVg

Their framing has been that anti-trans legislation and rulings, especially targeting transgender women, are about about protecting girls and women. It really a way to enforce biological essentialism through a scapegoated minority, and use that to expand to targeting cisgender girls and women.

📢 Call for Proposals: 2026 Male Supremacism Studies Conference - virtual from Dec 8 to Dec 12. Theme: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in Global Perspective. Papers, panels & practitioner talks welcome from any region! Deadline: Aug 23. shorturl.at/6R6S6

New this summer: our 6-week ‘Intro to Male Supremacism’ course opens to the public, addressing the roots of misogyny and transmisogyny. The session is from Aug 5 to Sept 15. Recommended for educators, journalists, researchers & more. Link: www.theirms.org/course-regis...

Today is the deadline to apply to our fellowship program! Come join a transnational community of researchers deepening their work on male supremacism and connecting it to gender justice and pro-democracy action. www.theirms.org/fellowshippr...

Dehumanization and Dangerous Speech Entitlement and Justification of Violence Mental Health and Safety in Anti-Supremacist Work Concerns in Research and Reporting on Male Supremacism Learn about all these topics in our summer introductory course on male supremacism. www.theirms.org/course-regis...

To improve access, IRMS will offer a limited number of partial scholarships for the summer intro to male supremacism course. Visit the course page on our website for information on applying for the scholarship: www.theirms.org/course-regis...

For the first time, we've opened up our Intro to Male Supremacism course to the public for registration. We are offering two summer sessions for the six-week Introduction to Male Supremacism course, June 22 - July 31 or August 5 - September 15. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

We are accepting applications for our board from individuals across the globe who are passionate about our mission. We encourage applicants from historically and systemically marginalized backgrounds and communities to apply, especially women of color and trans women. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I will be on the Joy of Resistance radio program tomorrow morning at 9am my time (11am ET) talking about my recent articles on misogynist ideology in terrorist attacks. www.wbai.org/listen-live/

Grateful to have the opportunity to speak with @oyousef.bsky.social again, regarding how misogyny and anti-feminist conspiratorial thinking intertwine with antisemitism and Islamophobia to motivate dangerous ideology and violence.

Missed seeing this session live? You can watch the recording on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTr...

The U.S. Right has a long history of using censorship to prevent media that humanizes people they want to continue oppressing and erasing.

We are accepting applications for our board from individuals across the globe who are passionate about our mission. We encourage applicants from historically and systemically marginalized backgrounds and communities to apply, especially women of color and trans women. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Grateful to @msmagazine.com for cross-posting my piece on misogynist ideology in the San Diego mosque shooting. The intersection of male supremacism with antisemitism, white supremacism, and Islamophobia is deeply important to understanding this and other attacks. msmagazine.com/2026/05/21/m...

In the wake of the San Diego mosque shooting, we've received requests for our work on anti-feminist conspiracism. This chapter excerpt from @alexdibranco.bsky.social and Megan Kelly describes anti-feminist conspiracism and its relationship to other conspiracy theories www.theirms.org/blog/governi...

This post from @irms.bsky.social about the beliefs of the shooters who killed three people yesterday at the Islamic Center of San Diego has me thinking about @milleridriss.bsky.social calling misogyny the "connective tissue" of hateful extremism. www.theirms.org/blog/misogyn...

"From the Proud Boys targeting drag queen story hours to US federal campaigns opposing ‘gender ideology,’ transphobic narratives are strategically used as tools for ideological mobilization and recruitment into fascism." Hear from IRMS mentee Kat Fuller this Wednesday. deakin.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are accepting applications for our board from individuals across the globe who are passionate about our mission. We encourage applicants from historically and systemically marginalized backgrounds and communities to apply, especially women of color and trans women. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you’re curious about my work on male supremacism, I’m doing an informal chat on Zoom tomorrow at 5pm New Mexico time. You can come with questions about any aspect of analyzing and working against misogyny and transmisogyny.

Executive Director and Founder @alexdibranco.bsky.social will be on Zoom for an informal chat tomorrow (May 14) at 4pm PT. Bring questions about male supremacism, IRMS, or our calls for the board of directors and fellowship and mentorship programs. Register to join: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...