I'm really proud of this curriculum, which reflects work we've been developing at IRMS to advance understandings of supremacism and thereby strengthen our ability to challenge and undermine dehumanizing and violent ideologies.

Institute for Research on Male Supremacism@irms.bsky.social · last wk.

Registration is almost full for the morning PT / evening GMT discussion section! We're excited to see so many people joining us from Europe. We still have plenty of space in the section that will meet after business hours in the U.S., morning across Middle East, Asian, and Australian time zones.

"A Washington ballot measure would require every girl in kindergarten through 12th grade to have her sex assigned at birth verified by a doctor—through either genetic or hormone tests or an examination of her reproductive anatomy—to be eligible to play girls’ sports." 19thnews.org/2026/07/wash...

How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girls

A ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to ‘verify’ their identity.

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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.

Madison Pauly@msjpauly.bsky.social · 2w ago

The thing about that Heritage Center paper against women's sports is not just the hypocrisy, or even the blatant sexism. A real argument is building in the courts to toss the longstanding rules that have caused schools to expand girls' sports. The story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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...

Watching the fuckboi in #OffCampus explain that TRUST and CONSENT are the most important thing in getting a woman off. Love it.

Didn't realize that Dr. Bronner's soap was cool like that, but I'll take it

Great to see my work being covered in Japanese! One of my future funding hopes is that we could translate our core research and resources into additional languages to reach a wider global audience. inods.co.jp/topics/repor...

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1. はじめに 2026年5月、米カリフォルニア州サンディエゴのモスク、サンディエゴ・イスラミックセンターが襲撃された。10代の容疑者二人によるとされる75ページに及ぶ文書と、襲撃の様子を映したライブ配信動画は、極右やネオナチの思考に深く根

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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...

Apply For Fellowship — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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Visiting DC for work and have met up with multiple people who have been shocked to hear that the budget at IRMS is only $100,000 given how much we do. I know! Just imagine what we could do with more funding!

I’d noticed this anecdotally, alongside the US looking more like the UK TERF culture when it had previously been critical of that—and here’s the detailed evidence of the anti-trans shift

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

It seems like a major barrier to consistent use of the term “misogynist incels” is the preference for short-form terms. If I start using “mincel” for misogynist incels, would that fix the problem?

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...

Intro to Male Supremacism Course — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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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...

Intro to Male Supremacism Course — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism@irms.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

My laptop battery dying is often the only thing that reminds me to 1. Drink water 2. Eat food 3. Stretch 4. Take bio break. Today’s sprint was 4.5 hours of “I’ll just do this quickly too” before battery death forced me to pause and take care of myself.

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...

Introduction to Male Supremacism Course

The Introduction to Male Supremacism course was designed by the Institute for Male Supremacism as part of the educational aspect of our mentee program. For the first time this summer, we are opening u...

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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.

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed. n.pr/4tWJ12w

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

Rebecca Watson@skepchick.org · 3mo ago

You only have a few days left to tell the FCC that they should stop trying to force broadcasters to classify trans and nonbinary people as inappropriate for children to see on TV skepchick.org/2026/05/the-...

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...

Male Supremacism and Misogyny Was Central to the San Diego Mosque Shooting. Why Did So Much Coverage Miss It?

Male Supremacism and Misogyny Was Central to the San Diego Mosque Shooting. Why Did So Much Coverage Miss It?

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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...

Governing Gynocracy: The Evolution of Anti-Feminist Conspiracy Theories (EXCERPT) — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

In the wake of the San Diego mosque shooting, we have received interest in our work on anti-feminist conspiracism. The following is an excerpt from the chapter that appears in the book Conspiracy as ...

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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...

Misogyny, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in the San Diego Mosque Shooting — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

Note: Typically, IRMS follows the guidelines of No Notoriety , which opposing naming perpetrators of mass violence and thereby giving them the notoriety that they seek. In this post, we have de...

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The manifestos identify multiple “incel saints” as their among their inspirations, a popular trend of claiming and glorifying violent perpetrators in misogynist incel communities.

Despite extensive misogynist content in the two shooters’ manifestos, discussion of the intersection of male supremacism with xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and white supremacism is sparse in the reporting on yesterday’s tragic shooting at a San Diego mosque. www.theirms.org/blog/misogyn...

Misogyny, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in the San Diego Mosque Shooting — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

Note: Typically, IRMS follows the guidelines of No Notoriety , which opposing naming perpetrators of mass violence and thereby giving them the notoriety that they seek. In this post, we have de...

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This weekend I did my first stand-up act at our local theater fundraiser, crushed it at karaoke with Bad Reputation, & then led a 5-hour rehearsal as director of our Rocky Horror shadow cast—opening as part of our Pride month festivities. Just living life with all the fun, queer, rejuvenating antics

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...

Days after a trans University of Washington student was killed in off-campus student housing, the UW chapter of Turning Point USA is hosting ex-trans activist Chloe Cole. Students are organizing at counter protest outside Kane Hall at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 5/13

Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A 19-year-old trans woman was killed in UW student housing Sunday night. Police are still searching for the suspect. She was the seventh trans woman reporter attacked in the Seattle area in twenty months, but the first to die. tinyurl.com/4kxerszd

Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic. Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson. Left and right, this is the common thread for many.

When I start to feel like I just want to spend the rest of my life in bed, I remember that I wanted to dress up as Maleficent when I was 5, not Sleeping Beauty.