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Stephanie Wescott

@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

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Feminist academic at Monash University. Researching the manosphere & gendered violence in schools

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Nov 19

In this recent paper, @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social + I conceptualise inadequate school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers (i.e. denial, minimisation, undermining) as examples of institutional gaslighting. Available open access below!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Conceptualising school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers as institutional gaslighting

This paper conceptualises the inaction of school leadership teams in response to systemic sexual harassment as institutional gaslighting, a theoretical tool to date unutilised in studies of sexual ...

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jul 3

Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jul 2

We want to understand what social media is like for teenage boys.

This project offers boys aged 12-15 the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences directly, and to shape the strategies and responses that might support them.

Please share this flyer with anyone who might be interested 📣

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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · Jun 7

New from @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social & me in Critical Education Studies. We advance SRGBV as an essential classifying, clarifying and categorising concept to encapsulate gendered abuse, misogyny, sexual harassment and sexism experienced by women, girls and non-binary young people in schools.

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · May 12

Join me, Jamila Rizvi & Alastair MacGibbon for this webinar conversation later this month. Presented by Future Women.

Registration and details below!

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · May 6

Tag me next time! 🫠

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Apr 9

blog.aare.edu.au/woke-austral...

'Woke': Australian teaching must hold tight to the fair go

What's woke? We are now witnessing the wanton destruction of that social contract in the United States. Let's not bring that here

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AARE Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG @aare-gscs.bsky.social · Mar 31

More on 'Adolescence', featuring commentary by University of Adelaide's Sam Schultz and @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social at Monash www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’

Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

www.theguardian.com

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AARE Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG @aare-gscs.bsky.social · Mar 31

'Tate-pilled boys are a problem for schools' -- @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social and @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social in the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Opinion | Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools

What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

www.nytimes.com

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Stop Sexual Assault in Schools @ssais.bsky.social · Mar 29

By focusing on an extreme expression of misogyny “we may miss a conversation about what is happening every day and ...[the] mundane [yet harmful] ways that these expressions of misogyny and sexism are coming from young boys in schools,” notes @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’

Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Mar 20

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Most Australians look with horror at the Trump administration’s whirlwind of destruction, but what about the lads? | Peter Lewis

A more muscular form of government sits well with our archetypical male, who embraces a sense of grievance egged on by American podcasters

www.theguardian.com

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Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social · Mar 18

"...anti-feminism is often the entry point to other forms of radicalisation that has been consistently underestimated by governments...It immediately threatens the integrity & rights of half the world’s population by normalising coercion, control & violence" www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/ctrl...

My friend was radicalised by online misogyny

He believes there is a conspiracy against men, that our societies are not patriarchal and never were (because the very concept of patriarchy is a fabrication), and that women should not be allowed to ...

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Mar 19

Reading Orbital! 🪐

Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Mar 17

Girls have a right to safety in their classrooms. Their education is profoundly compromised by the sexual harassment and violence they experience at school.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Mother calls for change after daughter sexually harassed by classmates - ABC listen

Sarah, not her real name, says serious systemic change is needed to prevent this happening to girls at school

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Mar 9

This x1000000

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Mar 8

One thing I don't understand from this finger-wagging is how women are supposed to forgive these young men for their immediate recourse to misogyny.

Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Mar 7

If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.

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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · Mar 9

I was interviewed by news.com.au about our research paper in Cultural Sociology, about the insidious underpinning of Tate content.

interview coverage here: www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social
@marcusjmaloney.bsky.social

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Feb 27

Andrew and Tristan Tate—alleged rapists and human traffickers—have just arrived in Florida on a private jet. Donald Trump maintains he knows nothing about it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrive in US after Romania lifts travel ban

The pair, facing trial for human trafficking, had been banned from leaving Romania in recent years.

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Feb 18

Looks fab & full of killjoy inspirations! #EnemyFeminisms

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Feb 18

Happy Publication Day, @reproutopia.bsky.social! 💐

Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis, Author of Abolish the Family

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Feb 17

Researchers have been warning about curriculum narrowing for decades. In an education system governed by performance, testing and comparison rationalisations, it's inevitable that a subject like C&C will be eroded. Excellent comments here by @stewartriddle.com

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results

National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.

www.abc.net.au

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Feb 7

Podcasts have helped sway many young American men to the right. The same may well happen in Australia.

theconversation.com/podcasts-hav...

Podcasts have helped sway many young American men to the right. The same may well happen in Australia

Conservative politicians are making good use ot podcasts to swing the votes of young men in particular. This may prove crucial in the 2025 Australian election.

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jan 24

Podcasters including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Logan Paul are mobilizing America’s men to lean right. An analysis of over 2,000 videos shows how.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jan 23

Are the wellness bros okay?

I contributed some thoughts to Madison Griffith's piece in the latest issue of Marie Claire on the intersections between wellness influencer bros (think Wim Hof and Bryan Johnson et al.) and violence against women.

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jan 17

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · Jan 15

We systematically delved into Tate’s messaging on Telegram and his website so you don’t have to!
While contrasting to his vile click baity, misogyny vids @ tweets, Tate’s self-help advice is insidious ideological scaffolding that leads to + celebrates misogyny

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · Jan 14

My target demographic for this piece by the way is not gender people or ‘woke’ people, whoever they are. It’s people who care about power being exploited to threaten democracy. Gender matters but the key thing is - protect democracy.

Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · Jan 14

'Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women.'

Why all Musk and the techbros are protecting is rich men's power. Less protection needed, more care.

My latest for @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/elon-musk-an...

Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women

The world’s richest man has been quite selective in the causes he champions.

theconversation.com

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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · Jan 9

'Understanding the appeal of figures like Andrew Tate requires moving beyond surface-level explanations that blame feminist discourse for alienating boys and young men.'

missingperspectives.com/posts/andrew...

By @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social & me

Andrew Tate’s appeal to young men has nothing to do with toxic masculinity

As Andrew Tate launches a political party, Tate’s appeal lies in his skilful manipulation of genuine issues, such as economic hardships, and his ability to frame these issues as consequences of femini...

missingperspectives.com

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