Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element The Language of Gender-Based Separatism by Veronika Koller (account not active) Dr Alexandra K and @jess_aiston Free access available until 24 July ow.ly/4ZhX50P7mzE #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

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Out now in IJCL Keywords of the manosphere In this paper, Dr Alexandra K and I identify and examine keywords that are unique within - and distinctive to - five different manosphere communities: The Red Pill, incels, MGTOW, PUAs, and MRAs doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.2…

We have provided written evidence to the parliament's women and equality select committee, on how misogynist language online can escalate to offline violence against women and girls. You can read our evidence - one of 35 - here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

New chapter on (mental) health in the manosphere in Gavin Brookes & Malgorzata Chalupnik (@mchalu.bsky.social)'s new edited collection: Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health Excited to get my hands on this - every chapter looks great! 📖link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Many fascinating chapters in this, including a chapter by our own Mark McGlashan, on discussion about (mental) health in the manosphere

Call for articles: “Young masculinities & political subjectivities.” For a special issue of the journal YOUNG: Nordic Journal of Youth Research. Submissions due by December 15. su.se/english/resear…

The MANTRaP team will be at #CADAAD2024 , presenting on debates in the manosphere about "the wall". If you don't know what that is, then enjoy your state of blissful ignorance until you attend our talk in Poznan. See you there!

This Lexis Podcast episode features our own Jess Aiston talking, among other things, about her work on the MANTRaP project.

I'm currently preparing a panel on gender-based aggression and activism in digital contexts. If you'd like to contribute and visit sunny Valencia 🌞, DM me with your research interests!

'Incels and Ideologies,' by Dr Frazer Heritage, explores how incels use language and other semiotic resources to construct ideologies of gender and race/ethnicity. bit.ly/3IuYlhx

Next to getting ready for our #CADAAD2024 talk, we have also been busy contributing to an Ofcom consultation on media literacy and getting ourselves a slot at this year's Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences in November.

What will the MANTRaP team be talking about at the upcoming #cadaad2024 conference? #ifyouknowyouknow

The MANTRaP team are planning a special issue of CDS on the language of the manosphere. We are especially interested in studies on non-Western contexts and in concrete, research-based positive interventions. Extended abstracts are due 1 Dec docs.google.com/document/d/1VZ…

“In a group that’s supposed to be for discussion of the rights of men, they spend 90 per cent of the time talking about what women are doing”, said Harry. ✍🏼 Emily Lawford met some incels and men’s rights activists prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philosop…

Join us at the other site🦋 bsky.app/profile/mantra…

We have received several abstracts for the special journal of CDS already - keep them coming! The deadline is 1 December, and we are interested in a) the discourse of the manosphere in non-Anglo contexts, and b) research-based interventions. docs.google.com/document/d/1VZ…

The latest from our own Jess Aiston: Aiston, J. (2024). "My Wallet, My Choice": Mimicry of marginality in an online community of male separatists. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2/2023.

Submit your extended abstract for a special issue of CDS on the language of the #manosphere by the end of Sunday. My MANTRaP colleagues and I are interested in research-based interventions and non-Anglo contexts. docs.google.com/document/d/1VZ…

We were overwhelmed by the response to our call for a special issue of CDS on the language of the #manosphere: global contexts and research-based interventions - 111 extended abstracts! We can now publish 15 articles, but it will still be a difficult choice.