The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism is hosting an interdisciplinary virtual conference for researchers and others working on male supremacism and its intersections, to be held via Zoom April 24-26, 2025. (Interested in cosponsoring the conference? Visit the form here.)

Male supremacist ideology is the belief in cisgender men’s superiority and right to dominate, control, or erase “others”: women, trans and non-binary people, and those with Indigenous gender/social roles. IRMS is a transnational organization that supports researchers who are committed to exposing and challenging common narratives that uphold male supremacist ideology.

Our approach understands supremacism, in its multiple forms, as a pervasive belief system supporting dominance and oppression that is at the historical and contemporary core of society. This understanding is informed by feminist, intersectionality, reproductive justice, social movement, gender/sexuality, and race/ethnicity studies, bringing this interdisciplinary lens to bear on discourses in right-wing, far-right, hate, radicalization, extremism, terrorism, P/CVE, and other related studies. The conference seeks to  bring these disparate fields further into conversation with one another, and to orient researchers to understanding the shared belief systems of domination, dehumanization, and entitlement that underlie and encourage collaboration among male supremacist and authoritarian projects.

IRMS conferences cultivate a global community of participants and as such presenters from any time zone will be able to comfortably attend at least one of the daily live session times. English-language proposals are accepted from participants located across the globe. Replays of session recordings will be accessible at different times during the conference period.

Our panels this year:

• Biological Essentialism in Gender, Race, and Sexuality

• The Relationship Between Gender Equity and Democracy or Authoritarianism

• Logics of Masculinity and Violence

• Mapping the Manosphere and Understanding Networked Communities

• Demons, Humor, Disgust: The Many Operations of Dehumanization 

• Examining Men's Claims-Making Around Harm and Engagement with Countering Male Supremacism

• Youth Vulnerability and Responses:

• Influencers and Entrepreneurs Paving the Way to Radicalization

• Male Supremacism in Policymaking and Political Discourse

• How Do Male Supremacist Communities Present Themselves? Transmaxxing, NoFap, and More

• Surging Natalism and Nativism in the Shadow of Dobbs

Direct questions to contact@theirms.org. 

Thank you to our cosponsors:

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Interested in cosponsoring the conference? Visit the form here for information and sign up.