Alex DiBranco
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Award winning author @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is previewing her new manifesto “All We Want is Everything” this Tuesday at our Know Means Know event on How We Dismantle Male Supremacy. Have you registered yet? Register here: buff.ly/om16MlM
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Award winning author @sorayachemaly.bsky.social is previewing her new manifesto “All We Want is Everything” this Tuesday at our Know Means Know event on How We Dismantle Male Supremacy. Have you registered yet? Register here: buff.ly/om16MlM
Looking forward to today's chat!
Join us for a fireside chat with Dr.Cynthia Miller-Idriss to discuss her new book Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism on Wednesday, 10/8/2025 at 11 am est. This is a virtual event and you can register for the chat via this link american.zoom.us/meeting/regi... .
October 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Looking forward to today's chat!
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Remember that @karenattiah.bsky.social is offering her own independent course on Race, Media, and International Affairs online after Columbia cancelled her class in the crackdown on "DEI," a.k.a. accurate discussion of race, gender, and discrimination. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Remember that @karenattiah.bsky.social is offering her own independent course on Race, Media, and International Affairs online after Columbia cancelled her class in the crackdown on "DEI," a.k.a. accurate discussion of race, gender, and discrimination. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.
April 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.
Last day of the #IRMS2025 conference! I'm mulling over what I want to include in my closing remarks today--a lot of thoughts from the last 3 days at the disinformation summit and talking with people concerned about male supremacism there.
April 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Last day of the #IRMS2025 conference! I'm mulling over what I want to include in my closing remarks today--a lot of thoughts from the last 3 days at the disinformation summit and talking with people concerned about male supremacism there.
I learned from someone at the disinformation summit about this library within Minecraft, that helps journalists globally circumvent censorship.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
www.minecraft.net
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I learned from someone at the disinformation summit about this library within Minecraft, that helps journalists globally circumvent censorship.
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
Melissa Gira Grant discusses opinion pieces on the manosphere that focus on the suffering of men, while ignoring the disproportionate suffering and violence encountered by women and trans people, instead telling them to placate men. #IRMS2025
April 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Melissa Gira Grant discusses opinion pieces on the manosphere that focus on the suffering of men, while ignoring the disproportionate suffering and violence encountered by women and trans people, instead telling them to placate men. #IRMS2025
Little girls are not being obedient, are not being respectable -Soraya Chemaly discusses the threat to white male supremacism of girls not adhering to the subservient position these supremacist movements rely on. #IRMS2025
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Little girls are not being obedient, are not being respectable -Soraya Chemaly discusses the threat to white male supremacism of girls not adhering to the subservient position these supremacist movements rely on. #IRMS2025
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Follow our amazing keynote speakers here:
@melissagiragrant.com
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
@aliadastagir.bsky.social
And our chair, @kylietcheung.bsky.social of @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
And follow us for our continuing work to challenge male supremacism!
@melissagiragrant.com
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
@aliadastagir.bsky.social
And our chair, @kylietcheung.bsky.social of @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
And follow us for our continuing work to challenge male supremacism!
It's time for the Keynote Panel: "Resistance and Thriving: Confronting Male Supremacism and Authoritarianism," featuring Soraya Chemaly, Melissa Gira Grant, and Alia Dastagir. Stay tuned for updates! #IRMS2025
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Follow our amazing keynote speakers here:
@melissagiragrant.com
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
@aliadastagir.bsky.social
And our chair, @kylietcheung.bsky.social of @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
And follow us for our continuing work to challenge male supremacism!
@melissagiragrant.com
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social
@aliadastagir.bsky.social
And our chair, @kylietcheung.bsky.social of @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
And follow us for our continuing work to challenge male supremacism!
Hopping onto the keynote panel at 11pm from Cambridge, UK, where I just finished a day at the summit on disinformation! I'm tired but I'm excited for this discussion.
It's time for the Keynote Panel: "Resistance and Thriving: Confronting Male Supremacism and Authoritarianism," featuring Soraya Chemaly, Melissa Gira Grant, and Alia Dastagir. Stay tuned for updates! #IRMS2025
April 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Hopping onto the keynote panel at 11pm from Cambridge, UK, where I just finished a day at the summit on disinformation! I'm tired but I'm excited for this discussion.
This is such an important topic right now, and an amazing slate of all IRMS fellows and mentees.
Our next panel is titled ‘Biological Essentialism in Supremacist Views of Gender, Race, and Sexuality’, featuring important research on ways oppressive politics are reinforced through intersecting systems of power. #IRMS2025
See below for live updates from the panel:
See below for live updates from the panel:
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is such an important topic right now, and an amazing slate of all IRMS fellows and mentees.
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🌍✨ Today’s the day!
Welcome to #IRMS2025 — our virtual global gathering on confronting male supremacism begins today! Whether you’re joining from your morning coffee or late-night tea, we’re so glad you’re here. 📲 Stay tuned here for updates & highlights all day.
Let’s go! #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
Welcome to #IRMS2025 — our virtual global gathering on confronting male supremacism begins today! Whether you’re joining from your morning coffee or late-night tea, we’re so glad you’re here. 📲 Stay tuned here for updates & highlights all day.
Let’s go! #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
April 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I've been exploring my neurodivergence over the last two years, & regretting (angrily) it took until my mid-30s, as I lacked exposure to resources that would help me understand myself.
When we should be encouraging access to education around neurodivergence, this aims to create a chilling effect.
When we should be encouraging access to education around neurodivergence, this aims to create a chilling effect.
An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records
The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've been exploring my neurodivergence over the last two years, & regretting (angrily) it took until my mid-30s, as I lacked exposure to resources that would help me understand myself.
When we should be encouraging access to education around neurodivergence, this aims to create a chilling effect.
When we should be encouraging access to education around neurodivergence, this aims to create a chilling effect.
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“TERFism, like all fascist discourses and all imperial and settler-colonial horizons, imagines itself upside-down, as somehow preyed-upon, bullied, colonized, and at risk of genocidal erasure at the hands of the subjugated group it dehumanizes.”
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.
my latest for @thenation.com
my latest for @thenation.com
The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
www.thenation.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“TERFism, like all fascist discourses and all imperial and settler-colonial horizons, imagines itself upside-down, as somehow preyed-upon, bullied, colonized, and at risk of genocidal erasure at the hands of the subjugated group it dehumanizes.”
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I got a chance to listen to the pre conference panel earlier today. The panelists were fantastic. The conversations around the ways culture and the media (tv, film, podcasts) have been driving the manosphere deeper into antifeminism and misogyny were stellar. #IRMS2025 @irms.bsky.social
Just signed up for the upcoming 2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference on 4/24-4/26--it's virtual!
I expect the research presentations will be more timely and relevant than ever before.
www.theirms.org/conference
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
I expect the research presentations will be more timely and relevant than ever before.
www.theirms.org/conference
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference
Male Supremacism Studies Conference 2025 (MSSC)Our interdisciplinary virtual conference is held April 24-26, 2025, with panels and discussions from researchers, policy-makers, and activists working at...
www.zeffy.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I got a chance to listen to the pre conference panel earlier today. The panelists were fantastic. The conversations around the ways culture and the media (tv, film, podcasts) have been driving the manosphere deeper into antifeminism and misogyny were stellar. #IRMS2025 @irms.bsky.social
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Who could have possibly predicted that TERFS would immediately pivot from transmisogyny to overt racism?
Oh, wait. It was trans women. Trans women said this is exactly what would happen.
Oh, wait. It was trans women. Trans women said this is exactly what would happen.
UK TERFs quickly moving onto their next victims
#TERFisland #UK #xenophobia #ScratchATERF #transphobia
#TERFisland #UK #xenophobia #ScratchATERF #transphobia
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Who could have possibly predicted that TERFS would immediately pivot from transmisogyny to overt racism?
Oh, wait. It was trans women. Trans women said this is exactly what would happen.
Oh, wait. It was trans women. Trans women said this is exactly what would happen.
At a disinformation summit, musing over a question that often comes to mind: is social media disinformation greater than that of past media? For instance, yellow journalism, where two white men who controlled major media decided to start a war, regardless of accuracy.
Historians?
Historians?
April 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
At a disinformation summit, musing over a question that often comes to mind: is social media disinformation greater than that of past media? For instance, yellow journalism, where two white men who controlled major media decided to start a war, regardless of accuracy.
Historians?
Historians?
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The first preconference roundtable starts in a little more than half a day! Register now to join.
The preconference roundtables are not included in the main conference replays, though we hope to be able to share part of the discussion for #IRMS2025 conference registrants unable to attend live.
The preconference roundtables are not included in the main conference replays, though we hope to be able to share part of the discussion for #IRMS2025 conference registrants unable to attend live.
✨ Tomorrow, we are kicking off the IRMS conference with a preconference day consisting of two important roundtables: one on the topic of online cult communities targeting youth, and one on male supremacy influencing/extending through culture (TV, food, etc).
More information and how to join below 👇🏻
More information and how to join below 👇🏻
We're super excited to offer an extra perk for all registrants. Register today to gain full access to our live roundtable sessions hosted on April 23rd, 2025. This pre-conference roundtable is something you do NOT want to miss! www.theirms.org/conference #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
April 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The first preconference roundtable starts in a little more than half a day! Register now to join.
The preconference roundtables are not included in the main conference replays, though we hope to be able to share part of the discussion for #IRMS2025 conference registrants unable to attend live.
The preconference roundtables are not included in the main conference replays, though we hope to be able to share part of the discussion for #IRMS2025 conference registrants unable to attend live.
Inspired by @karenattiah.bsky.social’s independent #ResistanceSummerSchool in response to Columbia canceling her course, I wanted to share a little of how @irms.bsky.social has pursued its own means of resistance education over the years when academic institutions fell short.
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Inspired by @karenattiah.bsky.social’s independent #ResistanceSummerSchool in response to Columbia canceling her course, I wanted to share a little of how @irms.bsky.social has pursued its own means of resistance education over the years when academic institutions fell short.
“This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.”
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.”
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But the problem is DEI .
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
www.mississippifreepress.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
But the problem is DEI .
So the U.S. is facing following the example of Nazi Germany with motherhood medals, and disenfranchising married women who changed their name, because authoritarian regimes rely on authoritarianism at home, giving cis men dominance over women who are relegated to baby-making and -raising.
April 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
So the U.S. is facing following the example of Nazi Germany with motherhood medals, and disenfranchising married women who changed their name, because authoritarian regimes rely on authoritarianism at home, giving cis men dominance over women who are relegated to baby-making and -raising.
This is going to be such a busy week! I'm on my way to Cambridge to speak at a summit on disinformation and we're also hosting our virtual conference on male supremacism studies this week, with a final closing talk from me on April 26. www.theirms.org/conference
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Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2025) - Cambridge Judge Business School
Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk
April 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is going to be such a busy week! I'm on my way to Cambridge to speak at a summit on disinformation and we're also hosting our virtual conference on male supremacism studies this week, with a final closing talk from me on April 26. www.theirms.org/conference
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
The social hours are one of my favorite parts of our virtual conferences! And they're scheduled at a few different times, so that there are options convenient for any time zone.
It’s conference week! Here are some perks for registrants! Check the thread below to know how to tap in and network with folks all over the globe during #IRMS2025 🧵https://www.theirms.org/conference
Call for Proposals: 2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
Male Supremacism Studies Conference 2025 (MSSC)
www.theirms.org
April 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The social hours are one of my favorite parts of our virtual conferences! And they're scheduled at a few different times, so that there are options convenient for any time zone.
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The language of "trans rights activists" is so sly. It implies none of us are average people who just want to support rights for trans people; people like me who can't organise their way out of a paper bag but can turn up to a protest. Trans people who just want to live and have better things to do!
Thousands of trans rights activists gather in London after Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman
Thousands of trans rights activists gather in London after Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman
Thousands of trans rights activists have been demonstrating in central London days after the Supreme Court ruled the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
news.sky.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The language of "trans rights activists" is so sly. It implies none of us are average people who just want to support rights for trans people; people like me who can't organise their way out of a paper bag but can turn up to a protest. Trans people who just want to live and have better things to do!