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 📣

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.

Join me, Jamila Rizvi & Alastair MacGibbon for this webinar conversation later this month. Presented by Future Women. Registration and details below! events.futurewomen.com/fwpresents

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

'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...

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

"...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...

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...

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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

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...

Looks fab & full of killjoy inspirations! #EnemyFeminisms

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...

Podcasts have helped sway many young American men to the right. The same may well happen in Australia. theconversation.com/podcasts-hav...

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...

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.

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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.

'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

The New Orleans attacker and Las Vegas bomber weren't working together, as initially feared. But the two acts have so much in common. Both were lost men who, because of toxic masculinity, got radicalized into believing far-right violence was ennobling. www.salon.com/2025/01/06/m...

The real appeal of Andrew Tate is not because boys hear the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ — New piece in Monash Lens by me and @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social lens.monash.edu/2025/01/09/1...

'...engagement with literature may enable discourses about consent to be extended beyond life skills and sexual health approaches.' Important and timely paper by Helen Cahill et al. on the possibilities of consent education through text study in English. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This SI looks incredible! Congrats to the editors, Wayne Martino & Diana Kuhl, and all who contributed papers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by @neilselwyn.bsky.social about the social media ban in Australia, as you can probably guess I’m not a fan! You can listen to the episode here 😊 www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

Me and @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social piece on misogyny and extremism has just been republished by VOX-Pol (originally in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social). voxpol.eu/should-misog...

This is incredible work and was a privilege to witness #AARE2024

Thoughtful & reflective work by @tanjinashraf.bsky.social

Seeing @aliceelwell.bsky.social presenting is always a thing to behold! Her research is about affective encounters produced via the practice of critical literacy in English classrooms. Brilliant brilliant ✨

This paper has surpassed 25k reads in just about 11 & half months! (Pretty good for an academic article, & a 1st for me!). It prompted many teachers to email stories of manosphere-driven sexism😢; & a few trolls whose gripe was solely ‘stop telling it like it is’ 🙃 @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

Dr Michelle Bishop reminds us that curriculum & pedagogy did not arrive with the colonisers; they have always been here #aare2024 @australianare.bsky.social

Hallmark Christmas movie where a big city academic goes to a small town and falls in love with the first person who's mildly interested in their research

Very honoured to have ben selected as one of the incoming ECR editor interns for the Australian Educational Researcher. Looking forward to working with the team and learning the ropes with excellent colleagues there! @australianare.bsky.social

Teachers in Independent schools in Aus: Do you have students who might be interested in chatting about influencers? See the below flyer below for distribution within your school. Email me if you would like a PDF: [email protected] Expression of Interest form: lnkd.in/gZDywXc4

I spoke to Patrica Karvelas on ABC RN this morning to talk about what schools can do to combat gender-based violence. We were joined by a current teacher, 'Stacey' (pseudonym), who shared her harrowing experiences of violence, sexual harassment and misogyny.

To mark the beginning of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence global campaign, @monashuniversity.bsky.social has put together a content hub exploring various issues related to prevention and perpetration. lens.monash.edu/2024/11/25/1...

'Schools are uniquely placed within the field of gender-based violence. They are sites where both gendered violence occurs, and where leading prevention and early intervention work could take place.' New piece from @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social & me for Monash Lens lens.monash.edu/2024/11/26/1...

Up at @sydneyuni.bsky.social today for a multi-stakeholder workshop on critical approaches to 'evidence' use in schools & policy. Imagining new concepts, new approaches & new resistance.

The new season of @monashuniversity.bsky.social's award-winning podcast, What Happens Next? lands tomorrow, featuring interviews with me + @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social on our research exploring gender-based violence in schools. lens.monash.edu/@what-happen...

EXCLUSIVE | Many experts were suspicious about how explicitly a recent summit platformed people who supported Labor’s teen social media ban. Today @cameronwilson.bsky.social reveals emails that prove the event was set up to create “momentum” for the ban. www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/21/t...

What can schools (as workplaces) do to support women experiencing sexism and misogyny? @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social and I spoke to Paul O'Halloran from international law firm, Dentons, on our research & how we can improve women's safety in schools. www.dentons.com/en/insights/...

Back in 2012, a bunch of us decided we'd had enough of the way Alan Jones talked about women. We decided to #destroythejoint. Much love to all those women and men who helped. www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...

'Misogyny and violence against women are social issues, and require a social response, not a punitive one.' Me & @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social on why social media age restrictions are not the answer to mitigate exposure to misogynistic ideas. lens.monash.edu/2024/11/19/1...

Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with ‘astonishing’ Question 7