“Men and Women are Working Together to Create a Non-Feminist Future”
By Mike Buchanan: I am delighted to report that the legendary former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has accepted our invitation to be a Guest of Honour at ICMI21. I shall be interviewing her along with Elizabeth Hobson, and we’ll be hosting her live Q&A during the conference. Details about Ann on the speakers’ page.
Speakers
We shall publish details of speakers (providers of videos, or interviewees) as they’re confirmed. Live Q&A sessions will follow the publication of many of the presentation and interview videos.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Janice Fiamengo “Why Men and Women are Working Together to Create a Non-Feminist Future”, live Q&A
Janice is a writer and the creator of the Fiamengo File YouTube series at Studio Brulé. She is a retired professor of English, and advocate for men’s issues, free speech, and western culture. She taught literature for 20 years, latterly at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of The Woman’s Page (2007), a study of early Canadian female journalists. She has also published online articles criticizing feminism and political correctness in magazines such as PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine. She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, with her husband, poet and songwriter David Solway.
Janice is a participant in the weekly video series Regarding Men with Tom Golden, also speakers at this event.
She was the third guest on the Justice for Men & Boys Gender Matters video series. The playlist of the series is here.
Janice appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2016, London – How Feminism is Destroying Higher Education
2018, London – The Demonization of Young Men: Campus Sexual Misconduct Tribunals
2019, Chicago – Why We Need Male-Positive Histories (keynote)
2020, online – We Must Stop Anti-Male Indoctrination of Boys
GUESTS OF HONOUR
Lee Anderson MP Interview with Mike Buchanan and William Collins, live Q&A
Lee is not your typical Conservative Member of Parliament. Growing up in Ashfield and working down several local coal mines taught him that working-class people are decent, hardworking people who want to make better lives for themselves and their families. They love the Queen, proudly fly the flag and are aspirational. These are all Conservative values. But they’ve always voted Labour!
Lee was no different, but realised that the party that would actually deliver on the working classes’ priorities was the Conservative Party. It was this that led to Lee leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Conservatives in 2018. In the 2019 General Election, Lee became the first Conservative MP for Ashfield since 1979, and has made a name for himself as the plain-talking, no nonsense voice of the Red Wall in his time in Parliament.
Lee now sits the Women and Equalities Committee along with Philip Davies and four other Conservative MPs, and previously sat on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Committee.
Bettina Arndt Interview, live Q&A
It was sex that launched Bettina’s long career. As one of the country’s first sex therapists she spent her early career talking about sex on television and radio and teaching medical students and other professionals. She then worked as a social commentator, writing and talking mainly about gender issues.
By the 1980s she’d had enough of a good thing. She gave up sex – professionally speaking – and moved onto writing for newspapers and magazines about broader social issues. As a respected social commentator, she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from childcare and ageing to family law and child support.
Having started out as a feminist, Bettina has become increasingly concerned that our society is no longer interested in equality but rather, advancing women at the expense of men.
Recently Bettina has been speaking out about the many areas where men don’t receive fair treatment – take a look at her chat with Karen Straughan about how feminists killed sex. But she’s also particularly concerned about the kangaroo courts adjudicating sexual assault at our universities.
In 2019 the riot squad were called in to protect Bettina’s audience at her Sydney University talk on the “fake rape crisis” which led to the Federal Government conducting a free speech inquiry and now proposing legislation for new rules to ensure open debate on our campuses.
Last year Bettina was made a member of the Order of Australia for her work “promoting gender equity through advocacy for men.” This led to a ferocious feminist campaign using maliciously-edited stories and videos misrepresenting her views on domestic violence and similar issues to try to cancel her. She sees the whole kerfuffle as a sure sign that she is over the target and she remains dedicated to her work promoting fair treatment for men.
Bettina appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2017, Gold Coast, Australia – Keynote speech
2019, Chicago – The Feminist Campaign to Demonize Male Sexuality
Stephen Baskerville
Stephen serves as President of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Social Thought and is past president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. He is former Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College and has taught political science at other universities in the US and Europe. He is Research Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society and the Independent Institute and has held two Fulbright scholarships. His books include The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power (Angelico, 2017), and Taken Into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland House, 2007).
Baskerville is widely recognized as a leading authority on fatherhood, family policy, and sexual politics. His writings have been published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Independent Review, Salisbury Review, Society, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Political Science and Politics, Touchstone, Human Events, Women’s Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Crisis, Insight, The Family in America, Family Policy Review, American Spectator, The Spectator, The American Enterprise, National Review, Liberty, LewRockwell.com, The New Presence, and others. His work has also been published by major public policy think tanks including the National Center for Policy Analysis, Institute for Policy Innovation, Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, and the Heartland Institute.
His media appearances include The O’Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Dennis Prager Show, The Michael Medved Show, Court TV, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg, Janet Parshall’s America, and others.
He serves on the boards of many organizations, including the Men’s Health Network, the Equal Justice Foundation, the Ruth Institute, The Legal Culture journal (Warsaw), Gendercide Watch (a human rights organization), and In Search of Fatherhood journal.
His recent publications are available at www.stephenbaskerville.com.
Ben Bradley MP Interview with Mike Buchanan and William Collins
Born in Ripley, Derbyshire, Ben graduated with a first-class honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University in 2013 following a stint of being a landscape gardener and administrator. Following this, he took the role of Campaign Manager for Mark Spencer, the Member of Parliament for Sherwood.
Ben became Member of Parliament for Mansfield in the snap General Election in June 2017. He was the first Conservative to be elected in Mansfield since the constituency’s creation in 1858, unseating the previous incumbent of 30 years.
In early 2018, Ben was appointed as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for youth engagement. Following on from this appointment, Ben re-launched the ‘Young Conservatives’ organisation, the national youth wing of the Conservative Party. He resigned from this role in July 2018 in order to be able to speak out for his constituents on Brexit plans.
Ben sits on the Women and Equalities Select Committee in Parliament and is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentaty Group for Sport.
One of Ben’s primary focuses in Parliament has been the plight of white working-class boys. Whilst far to often forgotten about, Ben has championed the need for further initiatives too ensure this is the last generation of ‘lost boys’ who do not have the same opportunities in life. Ben has particularly focused on the educational attainment of these boys. Whilst this group tend to have the lowest attainment in school, and are the least likely to go to university, there isn’t the same knowledge or support for these disadvantaged youngsters.
Ben has held a number of Westminster Hall debates on this issue and uses every opportunity available in the Home of Commons Chamber to raise it with ministers.
On November 19, 2020, both Ben and his colleague Philip Davies sponsored the International Men’s Day debate. Ben used his speech to highlight issues with the 2010 Equalities Act, to pay tribute to ‘good dads’ and to call for a review of the family courts, which too often seem to consider fathers guilty until proven innocent.
In February 2021 Ben was interviewed by Triggernometry, What Is the Conservative Answer to the Culture War? (video, 1:01:12).
Brother K Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Brother K was born in Miami in 1947 and grew up in New Orleans. He studied journalism at the University of Illinois, where he earned his degree in 1969. He protested against circumcision at the California State Capital in 1980, a protest that the Associated Press and other media reported locally and across the nation. In 1986 he changed his name to Brother K in California Superior Court, an act of protest against his circumcision at birth. He founded Bloodstained Men in 2012 and has protested in cities across the United States. His work has been featured in Brother K: The Uncut Truth and on Tosh.0.
Brother K appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Infant Circumcision: The Cruelty in the Cradle
Greg Ellis Interview and live Q&A
Greg Ellis is the author of The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law – Introduction by Johnny Depp, Foreword by Alec Baldwin – the Amazon #1 Best Seller in three different categories: Divorce, Fatherhood and Suicide. He has taught classes in phenomenology to orphans born with HIV in India, storytelling at the Parva Slum School in Jaipur, practiced shamanic rituals with the Cherokee Nation, purification sweat lodges with the Skidi Tribe, studied affect theory with epistemologist Dr. Gary David, and created ‘The Mindwell Initiative’ with the Global Wellness Institute. He’s a published author, TV director, Annie Award nominated voice artist and Emmy Award® nominated actor who has appeared in Oscar-winning movies, directed Hollywood superstars, produced and written television shows and commercials, performed leading stage roles in Broadway musicals, voiced cartoon characters for movies, TV series, cartoons, over 120 video games and toys, and has recorded multiple albums, singles and soundtracks.
Greg’s major motion picture film credits include billion-dollar franchises like the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Titanic, Star Trek, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Beowulf. TV credits include 24, The X-Files, CSI, Dexter, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, and more. Under his production company banner, Monkey Toes, Greg has written and directed projects for Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry, and produced and directed multiple commercials. He hosts the video podcast series The Voices in My Head, Wiser Life Practices, and The Respondent.
Greg’s online Alive Coaching improvement program helps people address past problems and improve their future, and his official website provides information on all of Greg’s projects, while the multimedia child advocacy series The Respondent aims to inspire family champions through his non-profit organization CPU: Children and Parents United.
Greg has recently interviewed a number of people who are very well known to ICMI attendees, YouTube videos here – Dr Warren Farrell (here and here), Philip Davies MP and Erin Pizzey.
Follow @ellisgreg, @TheRespondent, on Twitter, @realgregellis on Instagram, and Monkey Toes Studio on YT. Join The Respondent Monkey Toes Studio and CPU Clubs on the Clubhouse app @ge, and subscribe to The Respondent on Substack.
Dr Warren Farrell Live short discussion and Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Warren presented the keynote speech at the first International Conference on Men’s Issues, hosted by Paul Elam near Detroit in 2014.
Warren has been chosen by The Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders. His books are published in over 50 countries, and in 19 languages. They include The New York Times best-seller, Why Men Are the Way They Are, plus the international bestseller, The Myth of Male Power. His most recent is The Boy Crisis (2018, co-authored with John Gray).
Warren chairs the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men and has been asked by the White House to do a first draft of a potential presentation for President Trump for Father’s Day 2020 on the importance of dads in preventing the boy crisis.
As the only man ever elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women in New York City, and also called by GQ magazine “The Martin Luther King of the men’s movement,” he advocates for gender liberation – freeing both sexes from the rigid roles of their past. He has appeared on over 1,000 TV shows and been interviewed by Oprah, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Larry King, and Charlie Rose.
He has frequently written for and been featured in The New York Times and publications worldwide.
Warren has two daughters, and lives with his wife in Mill Valley, California, and virtually at www.warrenfarrell.com.
Warren appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Keynote speech (introduction by Paul Elam)
2020, online – Two interviews with Elizabeth Hobson and Mike Buchanan, Why Knowing How to Explain the Boy Crisis Helps us Empathize with Men and Abortion, How Feminism is Undermining Everyone, MGM
Erin Pizzey Live short discussion and Q&A with Elizabeth Hobson and William Collins
In 1971, Erin founded the first battered women’s shelter in the world, in Chiswick, London. She had no idea what would be coming her way for her troubles, including death threats, bomb threats, and multiple incidents of stalking. In her book Prone to Violence (1982) she showed how misguided we are in dealing with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). She has been refuting lies about IPV for almost 50 years.
Erin spoke at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Speech
2016, London – Intergenerational Family Violence v. The Big Lie (keynote)
2020, online – Interview with Elizabeth Hobson and William Collins
Dr Jerome Teelucksingh “The Global Impact of International Men’s Day”. Interview with Robert Brockway.
Jerome launched International Men’s Day on 19 November, 1999, and it has been observed on the same date every year since then. The day was tailored and revamped to build a movement and ideology that would promote peace, resolve disputes and transcend the growing gender gap. The annual observances of International Men’s Day on 19 November indicate a genuine concern for the numerous problems plaguing families and the rest of society.
The philosophy underlying International Men’s Day is much more than optimistic thinking and rhetoric; it is a way of life, a world view, an alternative peace model designed so that the next generation will nurture and continue to sow the seeds of tolerance, acceptance and harmony. The growing global support and appeal reflect a widespread willingness to create a tolerant society which aspires for peace and produce a more proactive and understanding generation of human beings. The focus is on finding solutions to problems affecting males and we reiterate that these problems are not restricted to any particular class, country, religion, race or ethnic group.
The focus of International Men’s Day is not restricted to men, but includes boys, women, teenagers and children. The underlying message is that ongoing conflict among men, women and children must cease and the healing must begin. The observances of International Men’s Day are part of a global non-violent revolution. It is annually observed by persons who support the ongoing effort to improve lives, heal scarred lives, seek solutions to social problems, heal the seemingly irreparable troubled minds, help the dysfunctional, promote positive role models in society and develop wholesome individuals.
Examples of Jerome’s output:
International Men’s Day Observance Speech (2017)
Short piece to camera
Interview on International Men’s Day (2013)
Ann Widdecombe Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A
Outspoken and controversial, Ann Widdecombe is one of the most high-profile politicians of recent times. A self-confessed “grumpy old woman” Ann is never afraid to speak her mind nor short of an opinion, which is exactly why she is in demand as a media personality and commentator.
Ann became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1987 and was Minister of State for Employment and Minister of State for Prisons in John Major’s government. In opposition she held the posts of Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary before retiring at the 2010 General Election.
Never one to do the expected, what she did next was surprising even by her standards. At the age of 63 Ann became the oldest contestant ever on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing and, despite never being a favourite with the judges, continually defied the odds with her dance partner Anton Du Beke, surviving 10 weeks into the competition. Her comedy-inflected routines showed a self-deprecating sense of humour and won her legions of fans.
But Strictly has just been one of many forays on television. In 2002 she took part in Celebrity Fit Club, becoming a judge in later series. In 2005 she fronted her own series, Ann Widdecombe To The Rescue and has since made documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including prostitution, “hoodies”, benefits culture, the Bible and more.
In 2018 the nation were reminded why they’d fallen in love with Ann on Strictly, as her straight-talking and quirky humour saw her finish second in Celebrity Big Brother. As a presenter, Ann has twice sat in the chairman’s seat on Have I Got News For You and asked very tricky questions on Cleverdicks (Sky Atlantic).
As well as her media commitments, Ann is also in high demand for public speaking engagements and somehow finds time to be a prolific writer. She has a weekly column in the Daily Express, has written five novels including Father Figure, a detective story, and her memoirs, Strictly Ann.
Other unlikely sojourns in Ann’s career have included performing in Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment at London’s Royal Opera House in 2012 and appearing in panto alongside Craig Revel Horwood. As she once said on The Graham Norton Show, “you only get one shot at life,” and Ann is certainly making the most of hers!
ACADEMICS
Professor Eric Anderson “Transgender Athletes in Sport”, live Q&A with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Eric is Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. He has a PhD in sociology and is also a Chartered Psychologist. He’s published 25 books and 80 peer-reviewed articles, and is considered a leading authority on the study of masculinities. He is also one of few masculinities scholars to study men and masculinities other than through a feminist lens.
This presentation will help elucidate the political conundrum that male to female transgender athletes pose for sports and politics. He examines two trends in relation to transgender people: 1) an increasing movement of acceptance on identity alone, without hormonal replacement therapy; and 2) an increasing number of people, primarily youth, identifying as transgender. He then maps these trends onto the sport system, which is predicated on a gender bifurcation. He thus highlights that there are no easy answers, no policies that will be perceived by all as fair. He then shares with us some data on the world’s largest study of LGBT athletes, showing how transgender athletes report their experiences in sport.
Eric appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2018, London – A Non-Feminist Approach to Masculinities
2020, online – Adding Brain Trauma to the Men’s Human Rights Agenda
Professor Gerard Casey “The TERF Wars: the struggle for victimhood supremacy between feminists and transgender ideologists”, live Q&A
Gerard was the author of After #MeToo: Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights (2020) and Hidden Agender: Transgenderism’s Struggle Against Reality (2021). He is Professor Emeritus in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Associated Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Alabama, USA) and Fellow of Mises UK. He was Head of School at UCD from 2000 to 2006. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame (1980-1981) and at the School of Philosophy in The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C. (1983-1986).
He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and he has been a member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; the Association for Political Theory; the American Philosophical Association, The Independent Institute and The Aristotelian Society.
His primary degree in philosophy was taken at University College Cork. This was followed by a Masters and PhD from the University of Notre Dame and the higher doctorate, the DLitt, from the National University of Ireland. His interest in law was marked by the award of the LLB from the University of London and the LLM from University College Dublin.
His research interests include Political Philosophy, with a focus on Libertarianism and Philosophical Anarchism. In this area, he has published a monograph on the doyen of libertarianism, Murray Rothbard, an introduction to libertarianism, Libertarian Anarchy, and a history of political thought from the perspective of liberty, Freedom’s Progress?. He is also interested in contemporary social movments, and in this area he has published a short study of free speech and tolerance (ZAP) and a critique of Feminism and its ideological allies, entitled After #MeToo.
Speaking to Tom Woods on radio about Hate Speech, Hate Crime and Free Speech here.
A recording from his series on , talking to Dr Jules Gaspard of King’s College London about digital intelligence and espionage here.
Talking to Patriot’s Lament in USA about the political implications of Romans 13 here.
A sound recording of a (short) lecture given at the Mises Institute on the problem of political representation here.
He was the second guest on the Justice for Men & Boys Gender Matters video series. The playlist of the series is here.
Gerard spoke at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Rape: A Presumption of Guilt
Professor Don Dutton “Some inconvenient truths about domestic violence”
Don is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded a court mandated treatment program for men convicted of wife assault in 1979 and used the men as research subjects for studies on domestic violence. He has published over 100 papers and five books, including the The Domestic Assault of Women (1995), The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (1995), The Abusive Personality (2006), Rethinking Domestic Violence (2006), The Psychology of Genocide (2007) and Religion On Trial (2019).
His work on domestic violence developed a psychological model of a propensity for abusiveness based on Borderline Personality Disorder that applies to both males and females. He has given talks to the World Bank, the U.S. Army and Department of Defense, the University of Washington Law School, the British Forensic Psychological Association and the Senate of Canada. He serves as an expert witness in civil trials involving intimate abuse and in criminal trials involving family violence. His website and contact information is here.
Don appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2019, Chicago – A Few Pertinent Facts About Domestic Violence
Professor Dennis Hayes Interview with Elizabeth Hobson and William Collins, live Q&A
Dennis is Professor of Education at the University of Derby and the Director of the influential campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF). AFAF is the leading body in the UK defending academic freedom. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Free Speech Union, launched on 26 February 2020.
In 2009 he edited and contributed to a special edition of the British Journal of Educational Studies on Academic Freedom and he writes regularly in the national and international press on free speech and academic freedom. His latest book The Death of Academic Freedom: Free speech and censorship on campus will be published by Routledge in 2021.
Dennis appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Education is Worthless Without Freedom of Speech (Interview with Elizabeth Hobson and William Collins)
Yoav Levin Interview with Robert Brockway and Elizabeth Hobson
Yoav is a long-standing MRA. He is the chairmen of the Israeli Lobby for Men and Boys as well as a member of a director board of two Israeli fathers’ NGO where he manages the research and information department campaigning for the rights of men and boys in the country. Except for his activity in the lobby and the NGOs, Yoav focuses mainly on the academic field and is currently researching feminism, gynocentrism, and misandry as well as female sexual and domestic violence against men. Yoav is also an active lecturer in the field of gender studies for men focusing on critical research of feminism as well as misandry and gynocentrism and has studies group in Israel.
Yoav appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – The Cathar – Manichean Ontology of Gynocentric Supremacism & Feminist Misandry
Deborah Powney Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A.
Deborah is a psychology researcher who specializes in domestic violence from a non-gendered perspective. Her head of department at the University of Central Lancashire is Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan. She is the driving force behind Walking to Recovery: A study for male survivors.
Deborah spoke at the following events:
Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too (National Conference on Men’s Issues, 2020)
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – The Male Victims Study: Busting the Gendered Myths
COMEDIANS / HUMOROUS COMMENTATORS
Alex Crosbie
Alex is a Glaswegian with a webcam and an opinion. He runs the YouTube channel 6oodfella.
He appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – World to End: Women Most Affected
Tristan Lonley
Using the protagonist’s name of his feminist-halted autobiographic movie about the loss of fathers’ rights and the loss of his four-year-old daughter, award-winning pop artist Tristan (a Dutchman) has been active in the field of men’s issues which ended his career after releasing his seventh album which was almost exclusively about abortion, false allegations, parental alienation and anti-feminist topics.
Withdrawn from the industry he filled an open slot about parental alienation at the 2019 Messages 4 Men conference in London, approaching the misery that befell his daughter and him with a stand-up kind of satire. It inspired Lonley to coin the term ‘MRA Stand Up Comedy.’
Tristan Lonley recently started The Men’s Alliance International, using the alias Fonos Andr’, again a character’s name from his dystopian novel ‘The Matriarchy’, based on the prognosis of the empowerment of women.
Lonley, at the age of 22, has experienced Beatlemania-like successes in many countries, especially in Japan where his music is being described as ‘aristocratic’: in Armenia there’s a hotel chain named after him. However, the rise of alt left socialism meant the end of his career: Lonley concluded his career with his all anti-feminist farewell album. Tristan Lonley is the partner of Ava Brighton, who is also speaking at this event.
Tristan spoke at the following events:
Messages 4 Men (London)
2019 – Speech
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – THE MACHIAVELLIAN GIRL: Why Women Don’t Quote Nietzsche While Making Love
Terrence Popp Presentation, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Terrence was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1968. He’s a retired First Sergeant from the United States Army. He served from 1986 to 2018 with 12 years assigned to the Michigan National Guard. The character of his service was that of a special operations soldier. Popp was an Infantry Soldier, Airborne Ranger, Paratrooper, and a Green Beret. His service covered three formal wars in which he twice almost lost his life; he participated in several operations that will never be printed on the pages of history. Over 30 years, he traversed the circumference of this earth twice by foot while carrying the sum combined weight of a dreadnought battleship upon his back. He was frozen in the Arctic, baked in the hottest deserts, and boiled in the deepest jungles.
Popp has faced some of the darkest evils of our time and lived to talk about it. In between wars, mainly out of boredom, he competed as a professional kickboxer and fought his way up the ranks and earned a light heavyweight world title shot. He has no quit in him, drive has taken him far and will perhaps take him farther still, we shall see.
In 2009 he established Second Class Citizen, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which educates and supports non-custodial fathers and mothers, particularly veterans.
Popp has a YouTube channel dedicated to political satire and comedy, and a website, Redonkulas! In 2012 he published his first book, Warrior’s Way and the Soldier’s Soul, a philosophical manuscript. In 2019 he published his second book, The Killer of Killers, and in 2020 his third book, Showdown. He has two daughters, and now resides in the Detroit Metropolitan area.
Terrence spoke at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Purple Heart’s Last Beat (a short film)
2020, online – How Men Fornicate Themselves
OTHER SPEAKERS
Addy Ahmed Interview about parental alienation with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A
Adnan Ahmed (aka Addy Agame) went from being a men’s dating coach in Scotland to championing men’s rights activism due to a prejudicial media scandal which led to corrupt legal proceedings involving false allegations and a wrongful conviction. The wrongful conviction was appealed and overturned in the High Court as no actual crime had taken place, resulting in a full acquittal, proven innocence, total vindication and a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Addy has also experienced parental alienation from his first-born child due to the child’s mother weaponising the child against him for her own irresponsible, petty and vindictive reasons. He aims to help fathers who find themselves in similar circumstances to overcome this challenge and move forward positively.
More widely, Addy helps men in criminal / family courts who are fighting for justice against gynocentric social justice influenced legal systems in western societies.
Addy appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Gerry Alexander Presentation, live Q&A
Gerry, an Irishman, studied telecommunications when telephones lived in a box on a street corner. So keeping up with the pace of change in technology and society kept him fully occupied throughout his career in the public and private sectors. His work took him to the Balkans conflict where he met his wife, and where he has settled in his retirement.
The luxury of having more time has allowed him to pursue a fascination with the narratives of feminism, which are contrary to his own observations.
He is a subscriber to the Regarding Men all-men weekly meetings, and credits the group with motivating him to create his talk and video.
Gerry appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – The Gender Maturity Gap
Santiago Gascó Altaba
Santiago is a victim of feminism. Born in Spain, he studied at three universities, Madrid (Spain), Bologna (Italy) and Chambèry (France).
A father of three children, he is now living in Italy. In 2006 his highly contentious divorce case started. Without having committed any crime or doing anything socially reprehensible he has seen his children, property and rights removed. Since then he has been fighting for his rights, and the rights of his children.
Current Western society is characterized by a series of worrying social phenomena that are becoming increasingly widespread – the declining birth rate (the “demographic time bomb”), the increase in suicide rates, separations, divorces and abortions, the increase in unhappiness rates, and so on.
On the other hand, all political agendas from 50 years ago to today have been promoting feminism globally. Both feminism and the worrying social phenomena have developed at the same time in Western society. It seems they are interconnected, as if we were living in a feminist paradox – the more feminism increases, the greater social anxiety becomes.
At this point, it is necessary to reflect deeply why this paradox is possible by responding to what seems a very simple question: “ What is feminism?”
Santiago collaborates with several associations for men’s rights, including La Fionda and Uomini Beta. He is the author of the two volumes (in Italian) La grande menzogna del femminismo (The great lie of feminism).
Greta Aurora Discussion and live Q&A with Elizabeth Hobson
Greta is a writer, poet and YouTuber. Her work focuses on celebrating the differences between men and women, and helping the sexes understand each other better.
A biologist and science communicator by education, with a passion for the arts, her approach is scientific and philosophical. Evolutionary psychology is one of her main interests.
In her first poetry collection The Dying Femme Fatale: A Poetic Exploration of Femininity in a Politically Correct World (2018) she challenged feminism and political correctness. She launched her YouTube channel in April 2020. In her videos, she explores femininity and masculinity through the lens of science and art. She also discusses controversial topics around feminism and gender equality.
Greta appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Debunking Feminist Myths About Misogyny and Rape Culture
Phil Bass Presentation, live Q&A with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Phil runs one of the most respected sex doll businesses in the world, The-Doll-House – as voted in 2018 at Doll Forum. The business has outlets in:
- The UK
- USA – Florida and Texas
- Mexico
- New Zealand
The business provides Silicone and Thermo-Plastic Elastomer (TPE) dolls to men and women for a variety of purposes. The dolls are usually initially a sex toy, but evolve into something much more in people’s lives, and often fill a void in people’s lives, as we become more disparate societally.
Prior to this, Phil was in the financial IT world, flying around the world to client sites, to implement Operational Risk software in major financial institutions. Five years ago he left the rat race to find himself, while exploring the MGTOW-sphere, and decided that his path to happiness was to work for himself and follow the way of the MGTOW. He has now almost forgotten what the meaning of the word “stress” is.
He finds his current work vocational, as many people tell him after their purchase that the doll has changed their lives, and they are now (sometimes for the first time) happy! He finds this the greatest bonus to his line of work.
Phil and his business are the embodiment of the MGTOW way, but this was merely a happy coincidence. Sometimes life can drop a golden egg into your hands.
He was interviewed by Mike Buchanan, a link to that video here. He was also interviewed by Regarding Men (Paul Elam, Professor Janice Fiamengo, Tom Golden) The Dolls That Love You Long Time.
Phil appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Sex Dolls – The New Sexual Normal?
Nandini Bhattacharjee “The Save the Boy Child Project”
Nandini has an MA in Sociology and an MBA in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, and worked for a company of international reputation. She has managed her own PR firm for the past 15 years.
Her most discussed work at the moment is in relation to men’s fights and gender-neutral laws in India. She is the President of All Bengal Men’s Forum (ABMF), which has a helpline for men in distress. The organization has a workshop titled, “Men Don’t Cry – They Are Depressed” to help men socially, legally and psychologically.
ABMF have started an online and offline campaign for the inclusion of males as victims in The Domestic Violence Act, and have already collected more than 50,000 signatures. The first Marathon for Gender Neutral Law in India in February 2019, named “GENATHAN 2019”, was arranged by them.
ABMF arranged a Men’s Rights Conference in November 2020 on the occasion of International Men’s Day, under the guidance of Nandini. They started the first male cancer awarness programme in India, on World Cancer Day, under her leadership. She’s a member of the African Boy Child Network, and has received numerous awards in her country for her work. On Women’s Day (2021) she was profiled online, here.
Ava is a Dutch professional graphic designer, who wanted to be a Men’s Rights Advocate since 2014, but didn’t know where to start. She stepped into the Men’s Rights Movement with her controversial YouTube video Are Almost All Women Mentally Insane? when picked up by A Voice For Men. YouTube hastened to shadow-ban Ava’s channel to prevent the video from going viral, but continued to give a voice to the men that have none.
By the time she appeared on the 2019 Messages For Men Conference in London she had gathered a group of followers comprising of both men and women and the idea came to Ava to make a documentary about men’s issues. Where she initially wanted to focus on parental alienation, the project turned into a feature documentary when female whistle-blowers volunteered to expose the men and family destroying methods of feminist organizations.
‘A VOID’, Ava’s feature documentary, is a highly controversial project, being viewed as ‘the successor of Cassie Jaye’s The Red Pill ‘. She filmed female whistle-blowers prior to the announcement of the project, to make sure she had the most revealing material secured. A link to the crowdfunder and trailer is here.
Ava spoke at the following events:
Messages 4 Men (London)
2019 – Speech
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Feminist Hegemony, BPD, Abortion, Fathers’ Access to Their Children…
Robert Brockway
Robert is an Australian/Canadian Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) and anti-feminist. He is concerned for the welfare of men and boys in modern society. In particular, he is concerned about the effects of widespread misandry in society and gender biases in addressing domestic violence and intimate partner violence. He advocates for men’s rights for the next generation of men and women.
Robert is the president of the Australian Men’s Rights Association Inc. and holds positions as a Researcher at A Voice for Men and Chief Editor at Wiki4Men. He was formerly Managing Editor at A Voice for Men.
In 2016 he helped organise the third screening of The Red Pill in Australia. This was the first screening of the documentary in Australia outside of Melbourne. He was on the organising committee of ICMI17, and provided advice and assistance to the organisers of ICMI19. He spoke at the March for Men in Melbourne, Australia, organised by Sydney Watson.
Robert regularly publishes articles on A Voice for Men and has given interviews on behalf of Men’s Rights Brisbane, Men’s Rights Australia, the Australian Men’s Rights Association Inc. and A Voice for Men.
He was one of the organizers of the online ICMI20, and one of the speakers – Theirstory, or How Feminist Revisionists Changed The Past.
Mike Buchanan “Men need to strap on a pair, reject their social conditioning, and say ‘No’ to women far more often, for the sake of everyone.” Live Q&A.
Mike is the Conference Director and chairman of the organizing committee. He’s a British political party leader, anti-feminist, men’s rights activist, author, publisher, cruciverbalist and the creator of Laughing at Feminists. He hosts two weekly men-only online meetings every Sunday on behalf of Regarding Men. The latest of his 10 books is Feminism: The Ugly Truth (2016).
In 2012 he launched Campaign for Merit in Business, publicising the evidence of a causal link between appointing more women to corporate boards and declines in financial performance.
Mike was the founder and remains the leader (2013-) of the political party Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them). J4MB remains the only party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys on many fronts, and the only avowedly anti-feminist party. The J4MB YouTube channel is here, the playlists here. In May 2020 Mike stepped down and passed the leadership of the party to Elizabeth Hobson, formerly the party’s Director of Communications (2018-20). In March 2021 Elizabeth resigned because the demands of a new full-time job made it impossible to devote the time and energy to J4MB that she wanted. Mike re-assumed the role of party leader.
Mike co-hosts the J4MB Gender Matters series, along with Elizabeth. Guests to date have included Paul Elam, Professor Janice Fiamengo, Professor Gerard Casey, Tom Golden and Dr Warren Farrell (twice), all of whom spoke at ICMI20. The video playlist of the series is here.
He hosted the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (ICMIs) held at London Excel in 2016 and 2018, and was one of the organizers of ICMI20. He is responsible for future ICMIs in Europe and North America, and is planning to hold an ICMI in a major Canadian city in the summer of 2022 through his events organizing company MRA International Ltd.
J4MB gave two talks at Cambridge University in May, 2019. Feminist students, alumni and academics had tried to have the talks cancelled, by sending an open petition to the Vice-Chancellor, full of lies and misrepresentations about J4MB. Mike spoke on Equal Rights for Men and Women (video, 41:05), while Elizabeth spoke on The History of Feminism (video, 45:18). The noise you can hear in the background was created by a large mob of howling, aggressive and chanting male and female feminists – the Cambridge University Noisy Twats Society – who deterred many people from attending the lectures.
A female J4MB supporter, Natty Raymond, chased after, apprehended and recorded on her smartphone the female feminist student who had thrown a milkshake at Mike and two supporters. The footage (video, 4:32) also includes the photographer of the incident, who worked for the student online website Varsity. J4MB knows the names of the two individuals (and a male feminist who also threw a milkshake) but has declined to make them public.
The party has posted 40 blog pieces in relation to the day, and the events leading up to it – here.
Mike appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Speech
2016, London – The Political War on Men and Boys
2017, Gold Coast, Australia – Let’s Get Visible – Beyond Keyboard Activism
2018, London – Equal Rights for Men and Women
2019, Chicago – Feminism Sows the Seeds of its own Destruction – Building the Men’s Rights Movement (panel discussion)
2020, online – Women Fail to Compete Successfully Against Men, And Why They Will Always Fail
Messages 4 Men (London)
2017 – Male Genital Mutilation
2018 – Speech
2019 – Abortion is a Men’s Issue, too
Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too (National Conference on Men’s Issues, 2020)
mike@j4mb.org.uk
William Collins
William, a semi-retired engineer and physicist, blogs on men’s issues on The Illustrated Empathy Gap and is the author of the book The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect (2019). He is a Trustee of the Welsh charity FNF-Both Parents Matter Cymru.
William appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2018, London – Men and Boys in the UK: Edited Lowlights
2020, online – Men and Boys: Updated Lowlights
Messages 4 Men (London)
2018 – Woozling Shared Parenting
2019 – Equality, History, Needs and Justice (keynote)
Domestic Violence is a Men’s Issue, Too (National Conference on Men’s Issues, 2020)
Families Need Fathers – Both Parents Matter Cymru survey of male victims of domestic abuse
Lori DeBolt Presentation with Melissa McFadden, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Lori is the Secretary for the Chicago chapter of the National Coalition for Men (NCFM). As part of NCFM National she is leading a women’s group, Deborah & Jael’s Warriors, which is fighting against False Accusations of Sexual Assault and Abuse. This support and action group meets regularly to share their pain, warn others, and works to change laws and negative stereotypes that destroy the lives of the men they love.
As a child of the 60s, Lori was acculturated to burn her bra, “bring home the bacon and cook it up too (Enjoli)”, and look for any job other than a secretarial position. However, after having two sons and seeing the radical turn the feminists have taken, her whole world changed.
Lori has two adult sons born in the 90’s who began their educational years with the “Girl Power” and “Zero Tolerance” movements. Her brother was institutionally alienated from his daughter in family court. A special man (privacy remains) has been mentally and physically abused by his wife. Her beloved co-parenting partner tragically lost his battle to suicide leaving the family devastated.
Now, she is fighting for her son who was falsely accused of sexual assault and is, as of this writing, waiting for his sentencing. Her son’s accuser has victimized both fathers of her daughters – completely alienating one and now accusing the other of child abuse (it’s been over a year since he’s seen his daughter).
Today, Lori stands firmly with God, fighting against injustices that our men endure daily!
Lori spoke at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – False Accusations Against our Men: The Women Women Hurt
Tom Golden
Tom is a therapist with 30+ years of experience working with men and boys, as well as women and girls. He maintains a practice in Gaithersburg, Maryland, as well as conducting consultations online.
Tom is well-known in the field of healing from loss, having travelled around the world to share his wisdom and having been named the “1999 International Grief Educator” by the Australian Centre for Grief Education.
Tom built the first interactive web site for bereaved people in 1995, webhealing.com. The page houses the internet’s first memorial site A Place to Honor Grief.
He has also worked as the vice chairman of the Maryland Commission for Men’s Health, he was featured in The Red Pill documentary and he participates in weekly discussions with Paul Elam and Janice Fiamengo on the YouTube series Regarding Men.
He has written three excellent books – The Way Men Heal, Helping Mothers Be Closer to their Sons and Swallowed by a Snake – the gift of the masculine side of Healing, all available on Amazon; and his work has been featured on CBS Evening News, ESPN, The NFL Channel, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others.
His web site is Men Are Good, the same words he uses for his YouTube Channel. You can find him on Twitter @trgolden.
Tom is a participant in two video series – Regarding Men (a weekly series with Paul Elam and Professor Janice Fiamengo, also speakers at this event) and You Can’t Make This Shit Up! (an occasional series with Paul Elam).
He was the fourth guest on the Justice for Men & Boys Gender Matters video series. The playlist of the series is here.
Tom was one of the organizers at ICMI20. He appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Speech
2019, Chicago – What The Media Won’t Tell You About Men… Panel discussions – Fatherlessness – Psychology’s War on Men – The Red Pill Cast Q&A
2020 (online) – Do Males and Females Live in Different Worlds? The Four Things That Make Men’s and Boys’ Worlds Different (two talks for the price of one)
Tim Goldich Interview with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs, live Q&A
Tim is an author who has devoted the last thirty years to researching, pondering, and writing a four-book series on gender issues. The first book – Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics — was published in 2011 and is available on Amazon. The second book — Equal Partners: The History of Gender Equality — is due out in 2021. He has also created a series of YouTube videos under the umbrella title of Man Against the Wall.
He is a board member of both the National Coalition For Men and of the ManKind Project and is president of the Chicago chapter of NCFM. His latest venture is the founding of a new internet-based organization called Gender Equalists: Transforming gender political space for unity, fairness and forgiveness.
His YouTube channel is here.
Tim spoke at the following event:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2019, Chicago – Rendering Feminism a Toothless Anachronism
2020, online – FemalePower
Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them) – J4MB – a British political party, thanks Tom Caulfield, its Technical Director, for the above picture, one of a large number taken in the Patriarchy Council HQ in London in 2019.
In May 2018 J4MB was delighted to announce Elizabeth’s appointment as Director of Communications. She was already a well-known and highly respected Men’s Rights Activist.
In May 2020 she was appointed the party leader. In March 2021 she resigned, after recognizing that the demands of a new full-time job made it impossible to devote the time and energy she wanted to her J4MB role. Mike Buchanan re-assumed the role of party leader.
She is the mother of two boys. She calls herself an anti-feminist Gender Equality Activist, and she’s worked with Trigger Warning, The Liberty Belles and Ladies for Philip Davies, as well as being a key member of the organising team for the highly successful March for Men / Messages for Men conferences in London in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Video playlists for the conferences are here. She is now solely responsible for the conferences.
Her areas of particular interest include the family and fathers’ rights, domestic abuse, MGM, feminism and freedom. Elizabeth wants to end the Sex War – artificially constructed by feminists – and pursue a more just society based on classical liberal values such as liberty, equality and meritocracy.
She co-hosts the J4MB Gender Matters series, along with Mike Buchanan, the J4MB party leader. Guests to date have included Paul Elam, Professor Janice Fiamengo, Professor Gerard Casey, Tom Golden and Dr Warren Farrell (twice), all of whom spoke at ICMI20. The video playlist of the series is here.
The J4MB YouTube channel is here, the conference playlists here.
Elizabeth’s personal YouTube channel is here. She was one of the organizers of ICMI20.
She appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2018 (London) – Activating the Non-Feminist Sector The Men’s Movement: Personal and Political – Paul Elam’s Churchill Award, presented by Elizabeth Hobson and Mike Buchanan
2020 (online) – The Power of Stories
She hosted the following event, in addition to co-hosting the Messages 4 Men conferences in London (2017-19). She is solely responsible for organizing future Messages 4 Men conferences.
Domestic Violence is a Men’s Issue, Too (National Conference on Men’s Issues, 2020)
The links between domestic abuse and other men’s issues
elizabeth@j4mb.org.uk
Ken Jolivet “Countering Modern Societies’ Pernicious Attack on Masculinity with Brilliant Bob’s Kids’ Books for Boys: a Seven Book Series of Illustrated Children’s Books for Boys”, live Q&A with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Ken, an American, is the author of six books on relationships between men and women. His (2019) book Society Kills Men: Feminism Loses When Half are Held Back was very positively reviewed by Dr. Warren Farrell (The Boy Crisis) and also received a rave review (as did his books Love, Marriage & Divorce: Through Pain, We Emerge and What Men Want Women to Know: 100 Revelations) from the Director of PR, Steven Svoboda (2020), at the National Coalition For Men.
Ken published (February 2021) a seven book series of illustrated kids’ books for boys (aged 2 to 10) that celebrate masculinity in males. Meet Brilliant Bob and his three best friends, Dazzling Dave, Genuine George and Superboy Sam as they learn through everyday adventures. The intent of the series is to get boys to read material they will enjoy whilst improving boys’ self-esteem, male identities and overall wellbeing: to help make them proud of their maleness.
Quillette recently published (May 21) an article The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmitisation of Masculinity featuring Ken’s books (here). Lotuseaters.com also published an article (June 2021) that highlighted Ken’s kids’ books for boys (here). Regarding Men interviewed Ken about his books (April 2021), titled Brilliant Bob: Stories for Kids Celebrating Masculinity, (here).
Ken was raised in the US but spent most of his adult life in Europe. He’s travelled to dozens of countries and has lived in Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Spain and the U0. He was married for 21 years and is the father of two grown sons, and a stepdaughter (from his current marriage). He has four academic degrees: a BSc, an MSc, a Masters in Real Estate, and the equivalent of an MA in International Relations (US Air Force).
Divorced at 43 and retired at 44 with a military pension, Ken travelled for 10 years to live, learn and experience the world. He remarried at 54, to a beautiful Persian lady. They split their time living in England and Spain.
You can contact Ken and find all his work on his websites at Brilliant Bob and Society Kills Men.
Ken spoke at the following events:
Messages 4 Men (London)
2019 – Society Kills Men
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Modern Rape Laws Increase Women’s Sexual Power, Further Punitive Misandry!
Richard Joy Presentation, live Q&A with MIke Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Richard is an author, speaker and men’s group facilitator who founded and runs the organisation Awakened Man. At a time when paths of growth and ‘initiation’ are all but obsolete, which has led to a generation of males without personal, cultural and spiritual guidance, he seeks to aid in the rebuilding of men.
Richard’s work draws highly from the traditions within men’s work and his personal experience. After growing up in a single-parent household and losing his brother to drug addiction, he dealt with that pain by entering the world of woke academia, at one point buying into the feminist dogma of ‘toxic masculinity’ and political correctness as a lost and impressionable young man.
However, after deeply challenging time in life, his presuppositions were confronted, leading to a transformational experience. After this, he rebuilt his life, finding a deep sense of meaning in finding himself as a man and walking a path of initiation.
This led to the foundation of Awakened Man, an organisation that runs men’s groups, offers 1-on-1 mentoring and hosts a media channel focusing on spiritual and personal development, initiation processes and countering the politically correct drive to lie about men and masculinity.
This is all done in the fundamental realisation that strong, healthy males lead to strong healthy societies. Henceforth, by building the man, you empower the family, the community and the society at large.
You can view the Awakened Man media channel here
Pandurang Katti
“Katti” was one of the early experts on men’s issues in India and he was a co-founder of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF). He has an Engineering Degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Masters degree from a premier Business School, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. He has worked in the Tech industry in India, UK, USA and Canada. He is in the senior management of a multinational Tech firm. He has been an active participant in past ICMIs, and has attended four ICMIs.
Katti has mentored hundreds of men’s rights activists in India over the past 17 years. He worked to develop media and positioning strategies for the early men’s movement in India. He has been invited by India’s parliament and Government law commissions several times for his suggestions on various laws related to domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace. His personal court case in 2005 at the Top Court of Bangalore is often cited as a a landmark case about misuse of domestic violence laws in India.
Katti appeared at the following event:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Men’s Activism in India – Insights and Experiences
Sean Kullman “The Boys’ and Men’s Well-being Index”
Sean is the President of the non-profit organization Global Initiative for Boys and Men. He is an educator, writer, researcher, fund-raiser, and community engagement organizer. His interest in boys’ and men’s representation in media, academic, and policy action comes from his many years of teaching in the public and private sectors and research into gender reporting and public policy.
His work includes opinion pieces in the New York Times and many other articles relate to the well-being of boys and men in education, physical and emotional health, parental rights, careers, and the need for a recognized male narrative in the public discourse, particularly in government, academia, and media.
Philip spoke at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2019, Chicago – Progress and Promise / Intimate Partner Violence – Men in Need: The State of Services for Men (panel discussion)
2020, online (with Philip W Cook) – New Global Initiative For Boys and Men – what’s in it for you?
Anil Kumar
Anil was a co-founder of the Save Indian Family Foundation, an Indian Men’s Rights Organisation. He started at a time when there were only 70 men’s activists in an online forum in 2004. In the next couple of years, he played a big role in the rapid growth of the men’s movement in India. He also contributed to development of the men’s rights philosophy with local contexts and its positioning in media.
In the last couple of years, his team has started fielding candidates in state assembly elections in India. Indian media has published more than 10,000 articles about the activities and demands of Anil and his close associates . The government of India has now stopped mandatory arrests in cases of domestic violence, however the domestic violence laws still exclude protection for men.
Anil has a background in the tech industry and he loves traveling in his free time. He has been an attendee or a speaker at all five of the previous ICMIs. He has also organised several conferences on men’s human rights in India.
Anil appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2016, London – Successful organizational models in India
2018, London – Focusing on Innovation for Growth of Organizations for the MRM
2020, online – Creating International-Level Centres for Men’s Communities and Education
Don Lofendale
Don, 67, is a retired Canadian lawyer. He worked in a civil branch of a provincial Justice Department for 32 years. Civil branches of Justice Departments are a government’s inhouse law firm providing a variety of legal services. Don’s main area of practice was privacy law. He was part of a group that won a Service Excellence Award for Innovation.
Don received a BA in Psychology in 1975 and then a law degree, his LLB, in 1981, with a Call to the Bar in 1982.
He entered university immediately after high school in 1971 and during the 1971-72 academic year was introduced to feminism, resulting in a lifelong interest in equality between the sexes.
Don appeared at the following event:
2020, online – Classic Rights: A Legal Theory for Gender Equality (interview with Mike Buchanan)
Melissa McFadden Presentation with Lori DeBolt, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Melissa is the Founder and President of Reset Missouri, a nonprofit organization that provides transitional housing to men who are returning from prison with the added burden of the sex offense registry. Her passionate devotion to Reset Missouri comes directly as a result of her oldest child being falsely accused of rape, wrongly convicted of multiple crimes, and now serving 15 years in prison.
Melissa has a decades-long career as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is committed to serving the most vulnerable populations. She is also committed to being a voice for the voiceless. Melissa published and authored a chapter for her anthology, Destructive Lies: True Stories of Them, Too.
Her background includes co-founding a small, in-home counseling organization, Rainbow Counseling, running a private practice, serving as a Drug Free Workplace Care Manager, and clinical manager of a federal Employee Assistance Program.
Following the derailment of her son’s promising young life, Melissa returned to school to earn a Masters of Nonprofit Administration from Lindenwood University, St. Louis. Her previous education includes a BA in Social Work from University of Pittsburgh and MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, St. Louis.
Vincent McGovern
A leading voice for fathers and shared-parenting in the UK, Vincent has unparalleled experience attacking the institutional malpractice surrounding the family courts. An Irish biker who travels countries with either his fiancée or his dog as pillion, he has had five Ombudsman Investigations in his favour including three Parliamentary ones, two of which were Parliamentary Ombudsman investigations into Cafcass, Children and family court advisory support service.
Vincent twice addressed the European Parliament Petitions Commission on its motion in 2014, Systemic Failings in the UK Family Court System. This was the first time that a member state was investigated as children’s matters are deemed ‘of national interest only.’
Vincent is also Chair of the Central and North London branches of the shared parenting charity, Families Need Fathers, and in this capacity has assisted over 900 attendees per year.
A Barrister and a former legal advisor to the All Children Parliamentary Group have deemed him dangerous.
Families Need Fathers — The Centre for Social Justice
As Chair of CLB Vincent and committee organised two seminars in 2017/18. 2017 was about Parental Alienation, two groups protested handing out leaflets claiming that the organisers advised fathers to ‘kidnap their children, and if the mothers objected, to kill them also.’
Open Letter to CAFCASS and NSPCC re Families Need Fathers
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Vincent is also the guest domestic violence expert at Surrey University Law Faculty.
He was the author of The War on Dads and Children: how to fight it, and win (2021).
He spoke at the following events:
Messages 4 Men (London)
2018 – Speech
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – The War on Dads and Children
Vernon Meigs “An Introduction to the Puer Archetype, and Why it Matters”, live Q&A
Vernon, also known as ‘V for Vernon’ online, is an American who offers individualism as the key to resolving men’s issues, esteeming men and boys, and diagnosing and combating gynocentrism in history, culture, and mainstream thought. Vernon defines gynocentrism as the call to male altruism, in which men are expected to be broken or terminated emotionally and physically for the sake of women. He neither sees this situation as a natural state of mankind nor as necessarily for human survival biologically and culturally, and advocates that men own their self-interest and craft their own path in a society that wishes them the opposite. He advocates for recapturing the spark of boyish youth for men to lift themselves up and enjoy life on their own terms, in response to a world that wants to see that aspect of men crushed – a subject he will speak of in his talk.
Vernon balances a lot of interests – he is a programmer and an aspiring musician, artist and writer. He runs the blog V for Vernon, and started making videos on his take on men’s issues as well as interviews with people that strike his interest (some of them with Elizabeth Hobson as co-interviewer). He is an enthusiast of multimedia, card games, and hobbies that inspire creativity. Through his varied endeavors he hopes to be an example of a man with his youthful qualities intact and unabashed.
Vernon spoke at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – In Praise of the Self-Interested, Competitive Male
Sydney MGTOW
Sydney grew up in rural New South Wales before moving to Sydney and starting a life there. His marriage broke down in 2017 and he stumbled across the manosphere. After six months of growing frustrations at increasingly obvious double standards he started on YouTube as an outlet to vent. His first video was entitled “Respect Is Earned, Not Owed”. At 10,000 subscribers he was demonetised in one of YouTube’s adpocalypses thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Centre but is still creating content.
He has mentored men to rebuild relationships with their estranged kids, helped men to develop a divorce game plan to minimise collateral damage, and saved countless men from suicide, depression and nihilism. His content entertains and educates people on human nature, institutionalised radical feminism, mainstream media and radical university indoctrination, while stressing the importance of putting one’s self first.
He has made it his mission to arm everyone he can reach with the tools to take responsibility for their own happiness while simultaneously living prosperous and fulfilling lives of purpose and opportunity.
He is optimistic for the future of men in the long term, and sees big cracks forming in the toxic feminist establishment that attacks anyone in its tracks in its ultimate quest for totalitarian political, economic and academic power, and control of all curricula from cradle to grave for the purposes of indoctrination of the masses, with the end goal being the elimination of all dissent.
Fortunately for everyone else, the cats are already out of the bag and pissing on their carpet.
Sydney spoke at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Life Is A Ballot Box. Vote In Your Own Best Interests
Alan Lee Millard Interview with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Alan is an American and has been a men’s equality advocate since the early 1980s. He began writing his first book, Equality: A Man’s Claim, in 1983 and thereafter has continually affiliated with men’s rights organizations and contributed many articles (e.g. A Flaw From Within Few Consciously Realize Exists, Chivalry is a Flaw From Within that has Given Rise to Feminism as well as radio, internet and television broadcasts.
His Facebook group is Men’s Equality. His work includes research conducted through graduate and doctoral coursework and knowledge acquired through independent studies and colleague associations. He targets underlying concepts that go unnoticed and/or condemned due to feminism’s misandry and traditional cultural bias favoring women.
He has taught different subjects (e.g. organizational behavior) at several colleges and universities, including Weber State University where he was employed from 2002 to 2014 as an English / writing professor and essay evaluator at the testing centre.
Entering upper education, Millard encountered a curriculum sculpted to a misandrous political agenda, with many PhDs less intelligent than many without formal education beyond high school. Ironically, students were often punished for critical thinking.
He works and has worked with other men’s groups and individuals including the American organization Fathers 4 Justice during his time leading the group Men and Fathers for Justice. He has received many commendations for his work, including book reviews from national men’s organizations (e.g. NCFM).
He’s authored three men’s equality books. His most recent, A Flaw From Within, is based on the premise of cultural female bias (chivalry / traditional misandry) that gave way to feminism (modern misandry) and created a hybrid combining the two. Men are groomed from boyhood to serve women as part of defining their ‘manhood’, leading to embedded female sex biases and a long-time higher female status (e.g. women “placed on a pedestal”) and female privileges (e.g. “women’s prerogative,” “ladies first”) leading to the extreme misandrous conditions we face today. A true patriarchy does not exist, as men are held accountable as mere figureheads bound to serve women.
Steve Moxon Presentation, live Q&A with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Steve is an English independent (non-affiliated) cross-disciplinary researcher/writer of science review papers (and the book, Sex Differences Explained) outlining original theory on the biological roots of human sociality / behaviour / psychology, focusing on sex-difference / dichotomy.
Regularly journal-published for the past decade, he’s tackled many topics: the basis of the sexual divide, pair-bonding, partner violence, the dominance hierarchy, competitiveness, the stress response mechanism, the origin of the sexual divide, why culture is biology, and why ‘the oppressed’ are males who are ‘different’. Throughout is a necessary bottom-up approach, excluding all ideology as anti-science: feminism, and ‘identity politics’ (‘PC’) generally.
Known initially for his science-cum-polemic book The Woman Racket (2008), he points out the problem isn’t some recent ‘gynocentrism’. After all, feminism is not concern for women: it’s hatred towards men — the core of the Left’s backlash against ‘the workers’ for declining to ‘rise up’. Preferencing the female has a deep evolutionary history, stemming from the female being the limiting factor in reproduction, obliging the male to take on the ‘genetic filter’ function to deal with accumulated gene-replication error by mutually competing for rank as a measure of genetic quality, then for females to select only ‘good genes’. Hence male disadvantage and being ‘policed’ to control sexual access to females. In-built anti-male prejudice has been amplified to pathological levels by the new political hatred.
Steve appeared at the following events:
Messages 4 Men (London)
2017 – Domestic Violence is Overwhelmingly Perpetrated by Women
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Why Partner Violence is Usual Female Behaviour but Aberrational for Males
Valentina Ortiz “Spain: A feminist testing ground”, live Q&A with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson
Valentina, 25, born in Argentina and currently living in Spain, is the current spokeswoman and communications and social media director of the Asociación Hombres Maltratados, a Spanish association for abused and falsely accused men.
Valentina created her YouTube channel La Entropía de Valen at the age of 19 with the intention of sharing her opinions on topics that she considered unpopular. This is how Valentina began to get involved in the men’s rights movement and began her critique of feminism. Over time, Valentina specialized in gender issues, becoming actively involved in men’s rights activism and dedicating her YouTube channel entirely to this. After five years, Valentina is one of the few voices in Spain for male issues, who also identifies herself as an MRA.
Her YouTube channel currently has 237,000+ subscribers, she has 90,000+ followers on TikTok, 23,000+ on Twitter, and 16,000+ on Instagram. She’s been running a segment on national television at El Toro TV where she has had the opportunity to make these issues visible. She now has published more than 200 videos related to the defence of men’s rights, written various articles, and is currently serving as an ambassador for the #PorCaroAlFinDelMundo case, a case of international parental child abduction.
Valentina spoke at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – The practical implication of feminist discourse to the detriment of men in Spain and in the world
Natty Raymond Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A
Natty, the mother of three children, has long been a supporter of the British political party Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them). J4MB gave two talks at Cambridge University in May, 2019. Feminist students, alumni and academics had tried to have the talks cancelled, by sending an open petition to the Vice-Chancellor, full of lies and misrepresentations about J4MB.
Mike Buchanan, party leader, spoke on Equal Rights for Men and Women (video, 41:05), while Elizabeth Hobson, Director of Communications, spoke on The History of Feminism (video, 45:18). The noise you can hear in the background was created by a large mob of howling, aggressive and chanting male and female feminists – Cambridge University Noisy Twats Society – who deterred many people from attending the lectures.
Natty chased after, apprehended and recorded on her smartphone the female feminist student who had thrown a milkshake at Mike and two supporters. The footage (video, 4:32) also includes the photographer of the incident, who worked for the student online website Varsity. J4MB knows the names of the two individuals (and the male feminist who also threw a milkshake) but has declined to make them public.
The party has posted 40 blog pieces in relation to the day, and the events leading up to it – here.
Carnell Smith Interview with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Carnell is a husband, father, grandfather, Ordained Minister and Engineer with an Honors degree in Electronic Engineering Technology with studies in Information Technology and Project Management. He is a Truthologist and Paternity Coach. He was the founder of the Paternity Truth Academy, and uses the motto, “Everyone deserves to know the truth”.
Smith won his own paternity fraud case using the Georgia legislation that he co-wrote, after the Supreme Court of the United States denied his constitutional arguments.
Smith has written model law, consulted on legislation in more than 10 states, had legislation passed in several states, was featured as a guest expert on Dr Phil, Fox Business News, CBS Early Show, Univision’s Aqui Y Ahora, Fuji TV Japan, in TIME magazine, Harvard Crimson Review Journal, Georgia State Law Review, Divorce Magazine, Men’s Health magazine and Reason magazine.
Smith is the author of the book Trapped by Law, spokesman, speaker, workshop leader, is a frequent contributor to TV, radio, books, newspapers, magazines, and film projects in the United States and abroad. He marketed and sold Legal DNA Testing for Maternity, Paternity and Immigration identifications for a decade, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Women Against Paternity Fraud, a 501(c) tax exempt non-profit organization
His Facebook page is here.
Carnell spoke at the following event:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – Paternity Fraud in the United States
2020, online – Women’s Equality Denied by Supporting Paternity Fraud
Karen Straughan (GirlWritesWhat) Presentation, live Q&A with Chris Votey and Vernon Meigs
Karen is a leading voice in the men’s rights movement, and an unapologetic anti-feminist. She’s a recurring guest on several talk radio shows in the US, both regionally and nationally syndicated, and has presented or panelled at conferences in the US, the UK, Ireland, Norway, Australia and her home country of Canada. She has been involved in all previous ICMIs as a presenter or MC.
The mantra by which she lives is: Anti-feminism is the radical notion that women are adults.
She resides in Edmonton, Alberta, the city of her birth, with two noisy dogs, one giant of a teenage son and a very supportive, tolerant and long-suffering husband. Her two adult children live nearby and keep their yard and kitchen much tidier than she does, probably just to rub her face in it when she visits them.
Her YouTube channel is here, her blog is Owning Your Shit (this is what anti-feminism looks like).
Karen appeared at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2014, Detroit – speech
2016, London – Toxic Femininity
2017, Gold Coast, Australia – Evolutionary realities: stumbling blocks on the road to reform
2018, London – Why Women Must Consign Feminism to the Dustbin of History (keynote)
2020, online – Looking Back, Looking Forward (interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson)
Philipp Tanzer Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A
Scotland-based, German-born Philipp’s life could be called contradictory. A pacifist soldier. An anti-porn former porn actor. A former gay icon standing for traditional family values. What others might view as inconsistent is, according to Tanzer, a balanced view based on experience. His goal: Fighting for a society in which opposing perspectives are being recognized and represented.
Noticing a clear imbalance in regards to “gender equality” and our treatment of women and men led to Philipp becoming a strong advocate for men’s rights and Issues.
Due to his unusual and sensationizable past, he was featured as a Men’s Rights Activist in an article by Vice Magazin and a documentary by the BBC titled, I am a Men’s Rights Activist.
Philipp is running as a regional candidate for the Highland and Islands for the Scottish Family Party which has a clear pro-family, pro-life, pro-free speech, pro-due process, stance, highlighting the importance of fathers, equal rights for men and the destructive force of the current feminist leaning SNP government. An article in The Times.
Philipp founded the organisation https://genderparity.uk/”>Gender Parity UK in 2020 together with Mike Bell, fighting against legal and political discrimination against men and boys.
He appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – United4Men – Men Together Strong!
Alison Tieman Presentation, live Q&A
Alison was the founder of Honey Badger Radio, the longest running and most popular podcast with a men’s rights focus. She is also president of Honey Badger Brigade Inc., the largest men’s rights organization in Canada. She has been published at A Voice For Men and the Good Man Project. She has a Masters in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary and has a focus on the effect of “toxic environments” on men’s mental health.
Alison spoke at the following events:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2018, London – How compassion for men shapes civilization
2020, online – Welcome to the Pain – How Ignoring Men’s Issues Kills Societies
Messages 4 Men (London)
2019 – Speech
Lucian Vâlsan “Masculine virtues and gynocentrism in times of pandemic hysteria”
Lucian is a Romanian non-leftist and non-feminist thinker.
With a background in technology, he’s been involved in multiple political and social projects at the community level in Romania since the early 2000s. He started producing content in English once he joined A Voice for Men in 2012 where he also assumed the role of European News Director.
In 2015 he founded the Freedom Alternative Network – a transnational group focusing on the study and practice of agitation, subversion and narrative shifting.
Starting from the experience gathered as a journalist and as a researcher for AVfM, Lucian has worked tirelessly to create generalized frameworks and blueprints on how to advance previously unpopular positions – such as non-feminism, men’s rights, individual liberty, abolishing affirmative action or the right to bear arms in Europe.
His public courses (such as those in Budapest or Ljubljana) as well as the private ones offered as a consultant have slowly become the standard working procedure for political parties and activist groups in more than 20 countries as diverse as Germany or Sweden to places like Mozambique, Uganda or Ukraine.
Most recently he went to Sweden in the middle of the Wuhan Virus pandemic in order to prove that inherently totalitarian approaches such as “lockdown”-style policies to address the Chinese Virus are unnecessary and based on fear mongering and mythology, rather than science.
At ICMI2016 he focused on introducing the non-feminist community to agitprop and this time around he’ll be explaining where on the narrative curve is the non-feminist messaging located and what can be done to keep on climbing.
Videos of his work can be found here.
Lucian spoke at the following event:
International Conferences on Men’s Issues
2016, London – The Status of Men in Continental Europe
2020, online – The Inflection Point in the Narrative Curve
Chris Votey Interview with Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson, live Q&A
Chris, also known as mad_cat, is an American author who runs the websites Boys’ & Men’s Issues and Concrete Desk Publishing.
Starting in 2013 after suffering a life-changing injury that left him disabled, he began making videos for his YouTube channel, discussing news and Men’s Issues. In 2016 he met Modern Medusa and joined as a team on YT doing the Macho Show. Together, they launched the Lovely Ladies of Men’s Issues Calendar for 2018 and 2020. At the request of a friend, he published the controversial (banned) book, How to Destroy A Woman Now, a satire of the controversial (banned) book, How to Destroy A Man Now.
While Chris is an advocate for all issues regarding men, his primary focus is on Male Emancipation. Women became emancipated and were allowed to evolve into what they are today, but males have been expected to remain as the 1950’s Man. Men should no longer sacrifice their lives for the wellbeing of women, especially since their loyalty and dedication end in divorce and denied access to children. Men should focus on making the best version of themselves, pursuing what they love, and if a woman wants to be part of his life, they must bring more to the table than what he can already provide himself.
Chris recently published the book series Boys’ & Men’s Issues Handbook, which he hopes will help the movement as a resource book and those unaware of males’ issues. He is also the co-creator of the Men’s Magazine with Catherine McClain, dedicated to Praising Masculinity. He is an active member of Regarding Men, interviewing the group’s creators on his YT channel and hosting his own weekly meeting. In 2021, he became one of the organizers for ICMI.
Chris appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – A Call To Action: Doing More in the Movement
Douglas E Wallace “Men’s rights issues need to be addressed at the global level”
Douglas started to be aware of feminism in the 1970s but wrote it off as unimportant, since he thought, as a teenager, that nobody would take it seriously. In his forties, he decided to put effort into helping men and children to retain family connections and soon was enmeshed in the wider issues of men’s rights.
Douglas assisted an international website for men which focused on anti-feminism and that was his introduction to the commonality of problems faced by men around the globe. He noticed trends as they happened and realised that this could not be by mistake, nor from some bottom-up movement. There had to be directing guidance at an international level.
As he uncovered the guiding hand of global feminism, so too did Douglas uncover the principles that they operated under, learning of the communist ideology underpinning decisions made for us by world politics, and the wider movements, beyond just feminism, that are implemented to bring about a communist world.
Working with various organisations inside and outside the established men’s movement, Douglas campaigns on a variety of topics and tries to keep abreast of the massive movement that opposes men and families at a global level.
Hannah Wallen Presentation, live Q&A
Hannah has witnessed women’s use of criminal and family courts to abuse men in five different counties, and began writing after she saw one man’s ordeal drag on for seven years, continuing even when authorities had substantial evidence that the accuser was gaming the system. She is the author of Breaking the Glasses, written from an anti-feminist perspective, with a focus on men’s rights and sometimes social issues. She has a YouTube channel (also called Breaking the Glasses), and has also written for Honey Badger Radio, the Honey Badger Brigade blog, and A Voice for Men.
Hannah appeared at the following event:
International Conference on Men’s Issues
2020, online – Reproductive Rights and the Accountability Gap
Terry White “An industry in crisis: how does a domestic violence industry ‘survive and thrive’ in a less-violent world?” Interview with Mike Buchanan and William Collins, live Q&A
Terry is a former oil and gas banker with more than 25 years’ experience transacting in some of the toughest jurisdictions in the world. He brings unique insight into both the emergence of reliable legal systems and their descent into anarchy and chaos. Following his own extensive 7½-year private-law legal battle, he now acts as an advisor to parents navigating the family court and campaigns for impartial objectivity and equality in government. He co-applied for a Judicial Review of the UK Ministry of Justice’s 2020 “Assessing Risk of Harm” Report, which he regards as a blatant attempt to undermine the England and Wales legal system by applying the methods of “Critical Theory”: misguiding the judiciary and social workers by rejecting opportunities for empirical evidence and diligence in favour of publishing unverified anecdotes and manufactured distortions.
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