Publications

Social media misogyny: The new way Andrew Tate brought us the same old hate

If you don’t recognize the name Andrew Tate, you have (luckily) avoided one of the most significant waves of misogyny on social media.

Cloaked in White Supremacy: How the Far-Right Uses Memes in Their Spread of Harmful Rhetoric

This is the second in a series of posts on the far-right and memes. In the previous installment of this series, I spoke about memes in a...

Cloaked in White Supremacy: How the Far-Right Uses Memes in Their Spread of Harmful Rhetoric

This is the first in a series of publications on the far-right and memes. In February 2022, Canada’s capital faced an unprecedented...

Opinion: The Far-Right Is Ready for Collapse, Are We?

In the face of oncoming collapse, we're not offering our own youth a viable alternative to being radicalized. How do fix it?

Book Review: Whiteness Fractured

In the book Whiteness Fractured (2013), sociologist Cynthia Levine-Rasky explains how whiteness is conceptualized in Canada and the...

“Illegal Runes, Illegal Memes”: What can fringe memes tell us about the far-right?

This blog post is based on a book chapter I wrote that appears in Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech edited by Sahana...

On mandates, the convoy, and the Canadian pandemic Overton window

As I write this, we are into a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated changes to life that have come along with it. At...

We Need to Look at the Way Academia Talks About Inceldom

When we label attackers incels when they have not claimed that identity, we inflate their power.

The Freedom Convoy is Done, What's Next for the Far-Right in Canada?

As the Freedom Convoy movement began to dissipate, our group of co-founders began to wonder: what will it be next time?