Symbolic action may motivate further collective action where there is identification with a common cause. Ideas that first came together at a SASP/Kioloa summer school (IYKYK). With thanks (yet again) to @profjohndrury.bsky.social for sharing it here on bsky first...
02.03.2026 23:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New: 'Handbook of Social Identity Research'
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An illustration that shows many different hands being raised, signaling volunteering.
Congrats to Lucy De Souza on winning the SPSP Student Publication Prize! Her research with Toni Schmader provides a framework for understanding allyship, organizing actions as reactive or proactive, and ranging from individual to institutional.
Read more: ow.ly/jAJK50XkA0a
Thank you, Mark! Allyship in action right here...
01.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
While gender equality initiatives have historically been spearheaded by women, male allies' contribution is increasingly recognized—and challenged. Our article examines the pivotal yet neglected intersection of women's leadership and allyship for gender equality. Across two experiments with community samples (total N = 801), we investigate how message framing (common cause vs. women's issue; Experiment 1), intergroup/male versus intragroup/female allies (Experiments 1–2), and transformative versus tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2) affect female leaders' capacity to mobilize both men and women for gender equality. We demonstrate that common cause (vs. women's issue) messages more readily mobilize men for collective action, whereas women's mobilization remains high irrespective of message framing. We also show that a female leader supported by an intergroup/male rather than an intragroup/female ally is more likely to be seen as “one of us,” have greater influence, and be more effective at mobilizing both men and women for collective action (Experiments 1–2). Critically, men are mobilized by transformative allyship (regardless of ally gender) and disengage from both the leader and the cause in response to tokenistic allyship (Experiment 2). While male allies can be important, our results suggest that transformative allyship is essential for mobilization across gender boundaries.
Should 'sisters' be doing it by themselves when it comes to gender equality initiatives? Not really, no!
"It [also] matters whether the approach is arguing for a 'we-change' or a 'she-change'.”
Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
BSky author: @shellkryan.bsky.social
