2023 Anti-Supremacist Training and Creation Institutes

The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) is excited to announce our 2023 Anti-Supremacist Training and Creation Institutes! This program will offer a mix of virtual and in-person sessions connecting anti-supremacist research to action, with the aim of developing a cohort of organizers, researchers, and media seeking to improve the efficacy and sustainability of strategies to combat supremacism and authoritarianism and pursue thriving social justice.

Understanding the shape and intersections of supremacist movements and ideologies is a necessary step to developing innovative, community joy-building, and long-term strategies for rewriting supremacist and authoritarian culture and structures. IRMS trainings are deeply informed by intersectional feminism and center opposition to misogyny, transmisogyny, and misogynoir while delving into the expansive landscape of supremacist organizing.

Sessions will examine “playbooks” used and reused by supremacist movements attacking bodily autonomy and gender expression—such as abortion rights, transgender humanity, sexuality education, and drag and queer performance—and a broad range of racial and social justice. We draw out connections such as the “anti-CRT” movement’s replication of decades-long organizing practices against LGBTQ-affirming and comprehensive sexuality education, and interrogate how supremacist and right-wing movements recognize the antiauthoritarian power inherent in educational and cultural interventions that the liberal/left infrastructure frequently ignores.

As researchers focused on supremacism, we are aware at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism how easily social justice advocates can end up constantly reacting. Our work builds in a conscious effort to consider what we are organizing for, to rewrite our future with root-cause interventions that consider sustainability and burnout, joy and creativity, present crises and long-term change. As the year progresses and the cohort develops, IRMS will tailor training sessions to meet needs expressed by organizers on the ground and facilitate breakout sessions and resource development, including case studies on innovative anti-supremacist work.

Our funding supports travel, lodging, and childcare and caretaking needs, in addition to some participation stipends for low-income individuals giving up paid work to attend. In-person sessions are currently planned for Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the April Collective Power reproductive justice conference in Amherst, Massachusetts and the July 22nd Century Initiative conference “Forging a People-Powered Democracy” in Minneapolis.

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