Announcing Our 2023 Training and Creation Institutes for Anti-Supremacist Organizers!

This opening training and creation session for IRMS’s 2023 anti-supremacist training and creation series delved into approaching organizing from an anti-supremacist perspective and understanding supremacist organizing and ideology in contemporary and historical perspective. As part of the IRMS mission to connect research to action, the session discussed how understanding intersections and divergences across supremacist movement supports organizing strategy, and how to apply this understanding to intersectional cross-movement organizing and effective use of media. With speakers from IRMS and the Center for Applied Transgender Studies.

Speakers:

Florence Ashley is a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Toronto. They publish on various topics relating to trans issues with a particular interest in improving access to gender-affirming care and countering attempts to criminalize it.

Blu Buchanan is affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UNC Asheville. Their academic writing has appeared in journals like GLQ: The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, as well as edited volume chapters in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis and Unsafe Words: Queer Perspectives on Consent in the #MeToo Era.

Alex DiBranco is the executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. She provides training, advice, and consulting on male supremacist ideology for social justice organizations and interviews with the media. DiBranco received her Ph.D. from Yale Sociology for research on U.S. right infrastructure and is a fellow with the Pop Culture Collaborative and the 22nd Century Initiative.

Thanks to support from the Collective for Gender and Reproductive Equity and Social and Economic Justice Leaders.