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!

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...

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.

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...

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

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!

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.

🌍✨ 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

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.

“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.”

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

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.

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?

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.

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.”

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.

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...

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.

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!

5 DAYS until IRMS 2025 ⏳ The virtual space is almost ready, and so are we. Get ready for 3 days of radical scholarship, resistance, and community. 🗓️ April 24–26, 2025 🎟️ Register now: www.theirms.org/conference #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf

genuinely interested by cis folks’ answers to the “how did you end up being pro-trans rights” question because a lot of people seem to’ve started with “no opinion/awareness” & grew to “fully down” thanks to social media, schools, trans coworkers/students, & THOSE ARE THE PLACES THEY WANT US BANNED.

"As Zane McNeill [(@zanemcneill.bsky.social)] reports in Truthout [(@truthout.org)], international students, too, are now increasingly vulnerable, subjected to government harassment ... because they fail to meet the White House's ideological litmus test for what constitutes a 'patriotic' resident."

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I'm fascinated (/disturbed) at how decisions by toy and game companies & stores have created gendered differences, from creating separate boys and girls toy aisles to the lack of diverse options for girl/women toys to this, from @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, our keynote speaker at #IRMS2025 next week.

Chance to support @irms.bsky.social by nominating us by FRIDAY for the Elevate Prize for executive directors & founders (like me!) "tackling the world's most urgent challenges - through storytelling, innovation, and systems-level change." $$ would be big for us! www.elevateprize.org/the-elevate-...

The official announcement!

We're excited to have Alia Dastagir speaking on our keynote panel next week! Check out this article to hear from her about her work, and register to join us via Zoom on April 24 for the keynote panel and audience Q&A. www.theirms.org/conference

Continue the conversation: Major changes by Trump admin. Join SPA Profs. @milleridriss.bsky.social & Bryan Arva in conversation w/ @hannahallam.bsky.social for political violence protections in 🇺🇸 after the Jan. 6 pardons. 🗓️Tue, 4/29 🕑 6:30PM📍Kerwin 301 RSVP: american-spa.swoogo.com/miller-idris...

Sign up for a Zoom conference next week on male supremacism, hosted by a research organization led by former ISPS graduate policy fellow @alexdibranco.bsky.social.

Today's recommended act of resistance: if you have an alma mater, ask them to join institutions like Harvard and Rutgers in standing up to authoritarian demands.

I submitted a short piece of nonfiction writing to a journal for the first time today. I'm not expecting it to be accepted, but I decided to submit anyway, because over the years I have hesitated so many times to submit my poetry and in the end they just sit on my computer unseen.

I'm always nervous to invite keynote speakers, because I'm so in awe of them! So I am THRILLED that @sorayachemaly.bsky.social @aliadastagir.bsky.social & @melissagiragrant.com accepted our invitation to keynote our virtual conference. April 24-26. You can still register here: bit.ly/IRMS2025

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

🚨 Final Call 🚨 Last hours to submit your abstract for the 17th Annual International Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research, to be hosted by the School of Law & Social Sciences and the @CVTRC.bsky.social at @RoyalHolloway.bsky.social. 🧵 1/2

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

Needed a different kind of political content in my mind, so finished the South African apartheid section of #AForceMorePowerful Mulling over the strength of community ties that supported months-long boycott, made realistic by planning shopping alternatives, compared to our 1 day or week boycotts.

In Florida, a trans college student faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail for using the restroom It is the first known instance of a trans person being charged with potential jail time under a bathroom ban law Justice for Marcy Rheintgen

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

So proud of Belgium! "Under a new law, sex workers will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days. Essentially, it will be treated like any other job" “It’s an opportunity for us to exist as people" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who knows of an amazing children’s book on Harriet Tubman to add to the list of “donate these books supremacists don’t want you to read to your local library”? Media can make sure we learn what they censor. & not just national: write letters to your local paper. #resistancethrujoy #thanksfortherec

Tell your alma mater to issue a resolution like this: “all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” for “any member institution under direct legal or political infringement.” @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social @yale.edu #yaleuniversity for me

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.