'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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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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…

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…

Thanks for the shoutout during the episode!

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element The Language of Gender-Based Separatism by Veronika Koller Dr Alexandra K and @jess_aiston Free access available until 24 July
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An interesting article on the emotional aspects of #transphobia among *some* lesbians. The author talks about the past 5 years, but the phenomenon is anything but new: see Dr Alexandra K, @jess_aiston and my book - free to read for now. doi.org/10.1017/978100…

New Cambridge Element The Language of Gender-Based Separatism by Veronika Koller Dr Alexandra K and @jess_aiston is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

It was such a pleasure to work on this book with Veronika Koller and @jess_aiston, and so exciting to see the final product!

A good start to the week - our Cambridge Elements 'The Language of Gender based Separatism' is out and free to download for the next two weeks! doi.org/10.1017/978100…

In it, we compare lesbian separatist manifestos with those by Men Going Their Own Way.

Forthcoming books:

13 July: Language of Gender-based Separatism (with Dr Alexandra K, @jess_aiston), CUP
Sep: Discourses of Supporters (with: see benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac…)
29 Sep: Viral Language (with Dr Luke Collins (he/him)), Routledge

By Oct, I will be dreaming of proofs and indices.

Excited to be presenting at #CL2023 this afternoon at 13:30 on men's liberation, pro-feminist men online, and positive discourse analysis! A very welcome change from my usual fare.

Registration is now open for the BAAL Language and New Media SIG at Edinburgh on 29th/30th June: baallangnewmedia.wordpress.com/events/past-ev…

The programme features two talks about manosphere language, including our own ksenija bogetic

Freshly out: our metaphor perspective on the language of the manosphere. Thanks Metaphor and the Social World and Susan Nacey for a super-smooth publishing experience

Some of us have published another article on the language of the manosphere:
Bogetić, K., Heritage, F., Koller, V. & McGlashan, M. (2023). Landwhales, femoids and sub-humans: Dehumanising metaphors in incel discourse. Metaphor and the Social World, 13(2).
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