New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

When I first started writing "The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging," I was reading "The Women of the Far Right" by @evianeleidig.com and learning from her work. To now have her endorsement feels full circle. I am truly grateful. noellecook.com/book

Really glad to see @evianeleidig.com 's comments in this important article on weaponized femininity and extremism: globalnews.ca/news/1130910...

This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram It’s giving MAGA makeover

With Turning Point’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit taking place this weekend, I spoke to Newsweek about the rise of conservative female influencers and their algorithmic amplification 🎙️ 🎥

Join us for the ECPR Extremism & Democracy conference where I’ll be discussant for the brilliant panel on food and the far right 🥛🥩🥚 with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social

📢 Our new article in the Nordic Journal of Media Studies is out, co-written with @evianeleidig.com We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛 open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

This past weekend was the Remigration Summit, a far-right conference that calls to deport migrants to solve the Great Replacement. Their 3 rules to make ‘remigration’ mainstream: 1. Repeat the term for visibility 2. Provoke a sense of public outrage 3. Use humor & memes to communicate

If only there was a book about this 🤔

A key takeaway is that right-wing influencers and pundits have invested into cultural and lifestyle spaces (health & wellness, fitness, finance, self-help) as a gateway for political messaging

I gave a talk last month about far right anxieties of birth rates and natalism is the latest dog whistle among fascist tech bros

I had the pleasure to join @mollythomastv.bsky.social and @philofwrite.bsky.social on Big [If True] @tvotoday.bsky.social for the latest episode on tradwives, misinformation & conspiracy theories 🧺🌾💉 www.tvo.org/video/trendi...

Looking forward to joining this webinar on far-right hate speech online starting soon 💻 Will be live streamed on YouTube

Tradwives, sourdough, manfluencers: What is the conservative aesthetic? 🌾🐄🥛 I spoke to Marni Rose McFall at @newsweek.com about the reactionary politics behind conservative online content www.newsweek.com/rise-conserv...

It was a pleasure to participate in the International Women’s Day panel hosted by @unioslo-stk.bsky.social in Oslo I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics #IWD2025

What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility? Register for the International Women's Day seminar on reproduction issues, exploring gender, sexuality, race, and class influences. Presentation by C-REX affiliate @evianeleidig.com, among others. www.uio.no/english/abou...

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

New Zealand’s internet safety agencies take legal action against the Human Rights Commission after it called out that X and Meta failed to protect former PM @jacindaardern.bsky.social from rampant online abuse, misogyny & hate www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The one on the left claims to be Elon Musk’s baby mama. The one on the right was indicted by the DOJ for spreading pro-Kremlin narratives. You literally can’t make this up.

I spoke about the unfolding tech coup in the US and my book of the same title on CNN Amanpour & Co. Watch here ↘️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lvU...

*cue a whole slew of media pieces about why young people, especially young men, are turning to the far right as if they’ve just discovered internet culture*

Excellent investigation into the Nazi content proliferating on Meta’s platforms over the last month ⤵️ While online hate was already flourishing, Meta’s policy changes have removed the guardrails.

Responding to the TikTok ban, @aoc.bsky.social hits the nail on the head. This is exactly why the EU has consumer protection legislation like GDPR and DSA. But no, people’s right to privacy is considered “stifling innovation” in the US.

this is why we can’t have nice things

My thoughts for @lesoirbe.bsky.social on Meta’s new content moderation approach and why harmful online content like disinfo and hate speech is going to get worse

Here I was, absolutely sure that Tate drinks liberal tears for breakfast

Meta’s new content moderation approach to increase personalized political content recommendations + remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender is a stellar recipe for online radicalization

Pleased to have joined @npr.org Morning Edition 🎙️ last week to discuss momfluencers who spread white nationalism as lifestyle content www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...

How RFK Jr’s conspiracy theories are seeping into wellness Thanks to Dazed for quoting me in this piece about far right wellness influencers backing MAHA www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/artic...

Humbled that The Women of the Far Right 📚 @columbiaup.bsky.social has been listed in @chathamhouse.bsky.social International Affairs Christmas reading list Thanks to @inesbsomoano.bsky.social for the review medium.com/internationa...

This article overlooks that much of tradwife content, esp on TikTok, is targeted towards the male gaze. And young men are adopting more conservative & traditionalist views compared to young women. We’re seeing a crisis of misogyny, not just a crisis of masculinity. www.salon.com/2024/12/19/t...

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2024 was the year of the tradwife as worldwide Google searches of the term spiked 📈 Unfortunately most clickbait media headlines about tradwives failed to mention the right-wing weaponization of white motherhood as a deliberate strategy in the online culture wars

I’ve put together a list of must read recent publications and resources about online misogyny, the manosphere & gender-based violence 🧵

So pleased as always to talk with @lbarronlopez.bsky.social at @pbsnews.bsky.social tonight about rising misogyny & to have the chance to share @perilresearch.bsky.social & @splcenter.org’s new tool to understand & prevent gender- and sexuality-based bigotry: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I spoke to @alexboyd.bsky.social for this story about how Canadian right-wing influencers like Lauren Southern and Lauren Chen are claiming the Great Replacement is happening in Canada for their US audience

Meet the influencers behind RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement They’ll be speaking at Turning Point’s AmericaFest conference about why you should drink raw milk and buy their health supplements to increase testosterone levels

But it’s “lifestyle content” so it doesn’t count as political smh

A key takeaway from this conversation is that the right-wing information ecosystem has been building on culture war issues for decades while the left was being blindsided

The conservative women’s magazine Evie has released their new cover featuring Ballerina Farm. Evie has peddled health conspiracy theories & disinfo, patriarchal relationships, and anti-LGBTQ views under an aesthetic guise. It’s time to stop saying that tradwives aren’t political.

The C-REX Compendium for students, scholars, policymakers & journalists: Concise and research-based answers to questions in the study of the far-right populism, radicalism, extremism and terrorism. Edited by @arjupskas.bsky.social & @evianeleidig.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

“How an empty Internet gave us tradwives and Trump” Pleased to see The Women of the Far Right 📚 featured in this latest @nytimes.com op-ed www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

For those in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 I’ll be giving two upcoming public talks based on my book on women in the far right ⤵️

Tomorrow, I am honored to be giving the annual Isa Vermehren Lecture at the University of Bonn titled ‘Women, religiosity and far-right extremism’. Isa Vermehren was a fierce critic of the Nazi regime and concentration camp survivor. She was a true inspiration. www.ktf.uni-bonn.de/aktuelles/na...

It’s time to make this public 📢 My book on women in the far right was dropped from contract by my first publisher for fear of being sued. A couple of other publishers followed suit. After months I found a publisher who had the courage. We CANNOT let the far right intimidate us into silence.

“Make America Healthy Again” Since raw milk is making media headlines, here’s a primer on the far right, conspiracy theory driven movement behind raw milk, raw meat & raw eggs 🥛🥩🥚 that @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social and I wrote awhile back gnet-research.org/2022/10/10/t...

A common oversight is that tradwives have significant numbers of male followers. They’re showing young men how women should act and behave, creating unrealistic expectations. Don’t assume online misogyny is only spread by manfluencers like Tate.

Media commentators are pushing the crisis of masculinity narrative to explain Trump’s appeal to young men. We need to be shifting the conversation from a crisis of masculinity to a crisis of misogyny. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I feel like I low key triggered @aoc.bsky.social back onto this platform and it’s honestly my best accomplishment of 2024