Stephanie Wescott

We want to understand what social media is like for teenage boys.

This project offers boys aged 12-15 the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences directly, and to shape the strategies and responses that might support them.

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New from @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social & me in Critical Education Studies. We advance SRGBV as an essential classifying, clarifying and categorising concept to encapsulate gendered abuse, misogyny, sexual harassment and sexism experienced by women, girls and non-binary young people in schools.

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Join me, Jamila Rizvi & Alastair MacGibbon for this webinar conversation later this month. Presented by Future Women.

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'Woke': Australian teaching must hold tight to the fair go What's woke? We are now witnessing the wanton destruction of that social contract in the United States. Let's not bring that here

blog.aare.edu.au/woke-austral...

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’ Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

More on 'Adolescence', featuring commentary by University of Adelaide's Sam Schultz and @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social at Monash www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Opinion | Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

'Tate-pilled boys are a problem for schools' -- @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social and @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social in the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’ Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

By focusing on an extreme expression of misogyny “we may miss a conversation about what is happening every day and ...[the] mundane [yet harmful] ways that these expressions of misogyny and sexism are coming from young boys in schools,” notes @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

Most Australians look with horror at the Trump administration’s whirlwind of destruction, but what about the lads? | Peter Lewis A more muscular form of government sits well with our archetypical male, who embraces a sense of grievance egged on by American podcasters

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My friend was radicalised by online misogyny He believes there is a conspiracy against men, that our societies are not patriarchal and never were (because the very concept of patriarchy is a fabrication), and that women should not be allowed to ...

"...anti-feminism is often the entry point to other forms of radicalisation that has been consistently underestimated by governments...It immediately threatens the integrity & rights of half the world’s population by normalising coercion, control & violence" www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/ctrl...

Reading Orbital! 🪐

Mother calls for change after daughter sexually harassed by classmates - ABC listen Sarah, not her real name, says serious systemic change is needed to prevent this happening to girls at school

Girls have a right to safety in their classrooms. Their education is profoundly compromised by the sexual harassment and violence they experience at school.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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I was interviewed by news.com.au about our research paper in Cultural Sociology, about the insidious underpinning of Tate content.

interview coverage here: www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social
@marcusjmaloney.bsky.social

Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrive in US after Romania lifts travel ban The pair, facing trial for human trafficking, had been banned from leaving Romania in recent years.

Andrew and Tristan Tate—alleged rapists and human traffickers—have just arrived in Florida on a private jet. Donald Trump maintains he knows nothing about it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looks fab & full of killjoy inspirations! #EnemyFeminisms

Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.

Researchers have been warning about curriculum narrowing for decades. In an education system governed by performance, testing and comparison rationalisations, it's inevitable that a subject like C&C will be eroded. Excellent comments here by @stewartriddle.com

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Podcasts have helped sway many young American men to the right. The same may well happen in Australia Conservative politicians are making good use ot podcasts to swing the votes of young men in particular. This may prove crucial in the 2025 Australian election.

Podcasts have helped sway many young American men to the right. The same may well happen in Australia.

theconversation.com/podcasts-hav...

How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

Podcasters including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Logan Paul are mobilizing America’s men to lean right. An analysis of over 2,000 videos shows how.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Are the wellness bros okay?

I contributed some thoughts to Madison Griffith's piece in the latest issue of Marie Claire on the intersections between wellness influencer bros (think Wim Hof and Bryan Johnson et al.) and violence against women.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We systematically delved into Tate’s messaging on Telegram and his website so you don’t have to!
While contrasting to his vile click baity, misogyny vids @ tweets, Tate’s self-help advice is insidious ideological scaffolding that leads to + celebrates misogyny

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My target demographic for this piece by the way is not gender people or ‘woke’ people, whoever they are. It’s people who care about power being exploited to threaten democracy. Gender matters but the key thing is - protect democracy.

Andrew Tate’s appeal to young men has nothing to do with toxic masculinity As Andrew Tate launches a political party, Tate’s appeal lies in his skilful manipulation of genuine issues, such as economic hardships, and his ability to frame these issues as consequences of femini...

'Understanding the appeal of figures like Andrew Tate requires moving beyond surface-level explanations that blame feminist discourse for alienating boys and young men.'

missingperspectives.com/posts/andrew...

By @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social & me

Whether MAGA or ISIS, online misogyny fuels terrorism Bitter men of all stripes are targeted by influencers telling them to double down on toxic masculinity

The New Orleans attacker and Las Vegas bomber weren't working together, as initially feared.

But the two acts have so much in common. Both were lost men who, because of toxic masculinity, got radicalized into believing far-right violence was ennobling.

www.salon.com/2025/01/06/m...

The real appeal of Andrew Tate is not because boys hear the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ — New piece in Monash Lens by me and @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

lens.monash.edu/2025/01/09/1...

Consent and literary education: the opportunities and challenges of teaching consent in secondary school English This article explores whether secondary school English teachers can contribute to consent education in Australia. A scoping study involved reviewing research on consent education, examining both co...

'...engagement with literature may enable discourses about consent to be extended beyond life skills and sexual health approaches.'

Important and timely paper by Helen Cahill et al. on the possibilities of consent education through text study in English.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism Published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (Vol. 45, No. 5-6, 2024)

Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism
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Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism Published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (Vol. 45, No. 5-6, 2024)

This SI looks incredible! Congrats to the editors, Wayne Martino & Diana Kuhl, and all who contributed papers.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....