The Involuntary Celibacy Movement

We discuss the Involuntary Celibacy (or "Incel") movement, which is said to have motivated the recent Wterror attack in Toronto.

We went long with Vincent Roscigno from Ohio State. We save the best banter topic for a standalone bonus episode, in which we discuss the Involuntary Celibacy (or “Incel”) movement, which is said to have motivated the recent terror attack in Toronto.

Discussants

Vincent Roscigno is a Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. He wrote The Face of Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press) and The Voice of Southern Labor (Rowman & Littlefield), and is now working on Inequality and Power in Everyday Life (with Polity Press).

Joseph Nathan Cohen co-hosts The Annex and directs the Sociocast Project. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College. He wrote Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class (2017, Praeger) and co-authored Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (2010, Polity). Twitter: @jncohen

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine (2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation (2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman