Matteo Botto
@teobotto.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈 queer
🎮 nintendo gaymer
🔥 socialist transfeminist (he/they)
🏳️🌈 queer
🎮 nintendo gaymer
🔥 socialist transfeminist (he/they)
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Matteo Botto
@teobotto.bsky.social
· Jun 28
I still find it hard to believe that this article of mine has surpassed 100,000 views and is the most-read piece in the history of the Journal of Gender Studies! 🤯
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I still find it hard to believe that this article of mine has surpassed 100,000 views and is the most-read piece in the history of the Journal of Gender Studies! 🤯
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
June 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I still find it hard to believe that this article of mine has surpassed 100,000 views and is the most-read piece in the history of the Journal of Gender Studies! 🤯
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
I'm very pleased with the positive response it has received, and I am grateful to everyone who took the time to read it 🌱
🇮🇹 Today’s the day! If you’re an Italian citizen, don’t forget to VOTE in the Referendum on Citizenship.
🗳️ Mark 5 clear YESes (SÌ), because everyone born and raised in Italy deserves to be recognized as Italian.
🕖 Polls are open:
Sunday, June 8: 7AM–11PM
Monday, June 9: 7AM–3PM
🗳️ Mark 5 clear YESes (SÌ), because everyone born and raised in Italy deserves to be recognized as Italian.
🕖 Polls are open:
Sunday, June 8: 7AM–11PM
Monday, June 9: 7AM–3PM
June 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🇮🇹 Today’s the day! If you’re an Italian citizen, don’t forget to VOTE in the Referendum on Citizenship.
🗳️ Mark 5 clear YESes (SÌ), because everyone born and raised in Italy deserves to be recognized as Italian.
🕖 Polls are open:
Sunday, June 8: 7AM–11PM
Monday, June 9: 7AM–3PM
🗳️ Mark 5 clear YESes (SÌ), because everyone born and raised in Italy deserves to be recognized as Italian.
🕖 Polls are open:
Sunday, June 8: 7AM–11PM
Monday, June 9: 7AM–3PM
🌈 I’ll be speaking at this year’s Liguria Pride Village!
📍 If you’re in town, join Eugenia Nicolosi and me on June 7th at 6:30 PM at Giardini Luzzati (Genoa) for our talk “Manosphere: nella tana dei bro.”
📍 If you’re in town, join Eugenia Nicolosi and me on June 7th at 6:30 PM at Giardini Luzzati (Genoa) for our talk “Manosphere: nella tana dei bro.”
June 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🌈 I’ll be speaking at this year’s Liguria Pride Village!
📍 If you’re in town, join Eugenia Nicolosi and me on June 7th at 6:30 PM at Giardini Luzzati (Genoa) for our talk “Manosphere: nella tana dei bro.”
📍 If you’re in town, join Eugenia Nicolosi and me on June 7th at 6:30 PM at Giardini Luzzati (Genoa) for our talk “Manosphere: nella tana dei bro.”
With Telegram integrating Grok (Twitter/X’s AI), now is the time to move to more ethical messaging platforms, such as @signal.org.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/x...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/x...
xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.
techcrunch.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
With Telegram integrating Grok (Twitter/X’s AI), now is the time to move to more ethical messaging platforms, such as @signal.org.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/x...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/x...
Academia.edu has started using AI to turn users’ uploaded articles into podcasts without their consent.
If you’ve been thinking about deleting your profile, now might be the right time.
If you’ve been thinking about deleting your profile, now might be the right time.
May 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Academia.edu has started using AI to turn users’ uploaded articles into podcasts without their consent.
If you’ve been thinking about deleting your profile, now might be the right time.
If you’ve been thinking about deleting your profile, now might be the right time.
🥳 The podcast I created and edited for @aboutgender.bsky.social is finally online!
🎙️ "About Gender. Studi d’altro genere" is a podcast featuring interviews with experts in the field of gender-based violence.
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLba...
🎙️ "About Gender. Studi d’altro genere" is a podcast featuring interviews with experts in the field of gender-based violence.
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLba...
May 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🥳 The podcast I created and edited for @aboutgender.bsky.social is finally online!
🎙️ "About Gender. Studi d’altro genere" is a podcast featuring interviews with experts in the field of gender-based violence.
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLba...
🎙️ "About Gender. Studi d’altro genere" is a podcast featuring interviews with experts in the field of gender-based violence.
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLba...
Thank you so much to @gssisocialsci.bsky.social for inviting me to discuss contemporary masculinities! It was a pleasure to be in L’Aquila for the first time in my life — and I’m really glad I had the chance to meet such inspiring colleagues ☺️
May 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thank you so much to @gssisocialsci.bsky.social for inviting me to discuss contemporary masculinities! It was a pleasure to be in L’Aquila for the first time in my life — and I’m really glad I had the chance to meet such inspiring colleagues ☺️
I’ll speak at the seminar “Masculinities: Representations, Narratives, and Transformations” on May 6th at the @gssisocialsci.bsky.social!
We’ll explore how masculinities are represented and discussed in culture and academia, and how they evolve in response to social and political changes.
We’ll explore how masculinities are represented and discussed in culture and academia, and how they evolve in response to social and political changes.
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’ll speak at the seminar “Masculinities: Representations, Narratives, and Transformations” on May 6th at the @gssisocialsci.bsky.social!
We’ll explore how masculinities are represented and discussed in culture and academia, and how they evolve in response to social and political changes.
We’ll explore how masculinities are represented and discussed in culture and academia, and how they evolve in response to social and political changes.
It's inspiring to see individuals standing up against the new U.S. norms that aim to remove words like "queer," "trans," and "non-binary" from our research articles and datasets.
Thank you to @cygraham.bsky.social and all the authors for this editorial! 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you to @cygraham.bsky.social and all the authors for this editorial! 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's inspiring to see individuals standing up against the new U.S. norms that aim to remove words like "queer," "trans," and "non-binary" from our research articles and datasets.
Thank you to @cygraham.bsky.social and all the authors for this editorial! 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you to @cygraham.bsky.social and all the authors for this editorial! 🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Half a lifetime on a train
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Half a lifetime on a train
I’m so thankful for the amazing colleagues I get to work with. You all make every day better! 🌱
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m so thankful for the amazing colleagues I get to work with. You all make every day better! 🌱
🔥 A powerful International Women's Day march in Turin, with thousands united against patriarchy and all forms of oppression.
March 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🔥 A powerful International Women's Day march in Turin, with thousands united against patriarchy and all forms of oppression.
People on the train: "Wow, he’s very focused, he must be reading one of those deep and intellectual novels about the meaning of life and the struggles of human relationships."
Me, annotating my book:
Me, annotating my book:
March 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
People on the train: "Wow, he’s very focused, he must be reading one of those deep and intellectual novels about the meaning of life and the struggles of human relationships."
Me, annotating my book:
Me, annotating my book:
🧑🏻🏫 On March 7th, I’ll be at the conference “Violenza di genere e Giovani” to share my experience running workshops on masculinities and gender violence with university students.
📍 If you’ll be in Genoa, let’s meet there!
📍 If you’ll be in Genoa, let’s meet there!
March 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🧑🏻🏫 On March 7th, I’ll be at the conference “Violenza di genere e Giovani” to share my experience running workshops on masculinities and gender violence with university students.
📍 If you’ll be in Genoa, let’s meet there!
📍 If you’ll be in Genoa, let’s meet there!
We already have countless reasons to boycott Google, and we're adding this one to the list.
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Some users are angry that some events have been removed.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We already have countless reasons to boycott Google, and we're adding this one to the list.
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
Many people are creating profiles on Xiaohongshu ('Red Note') due to the situation TikTok is facing in the US.
If you’re writing about it, here there are some suggestions ⤵️
If you’re writing about it, here there are some suggestions ⤵️
Content creators on TikTok worldwide have been rebuilding their communities on Xiaohongshu (or ‘Red Note’), which generates much research interest. It’s all great, but there are some points I have to get out of my chest. If you are planning to research or comment on the ‘TikTok Refugee’, pls read:
January 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Many people are creating profiles on Xiaohongshu ('Red Note') due to the situation TikTok is facing in the US.
If you’re writing about it, here there are some suggestions ⤵️
If you’re writing about it, here there are some suggestions ⤵️
Is anyone surprised that Zuckerberg refers to "masculine energy" during this new Trump administration?
🔲 no
🔲 absolutely no
🔲 NO BUT IN CAPS LOCK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🔲 no
🔲 absolutely no
🔲 NO BUT IN CAPS LOCK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Is anyone surprised that Zuckerberg refers to "masculine energy" during this new Trump administration?
🔲 no
🔲 absolutely no
🔲 NO BUT IN CAPS LOCK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🔲 no
🔲 absolutely no
🔲 NO BUT IN CAPS LOCK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Despite the colourful speeches during Pride month, platforms like Meta only pursue one goal: profit. And they will always do so at the expense of everything - in this case, queer people.
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.
www.wired.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Despite the colourful speeches during Pride month, platforms like Meta only pursue one goal: profit. And they will always do so at the expense of everything - in this case, queer people.
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
I'm on a train on Christmas morning, and an elderly couple is seriously discussing whom to send "Merry Christmas" to on WhatsApp.
Their conversation is so intense that it resembles two diplomats discussing the crisis in the Middle East.
Their conversation is so intense that it resembles two diplomats discussing the crisis in the Middle East.
December 25, 2024 at 7:41 AM
I'm on a train on Christmas morning, and an elderly couple is seriously discussing whom to send "Merry Christmas" to on WhatsApp.
Their conversation is so intense that it resembles two diplomats discussing the crisis in the Middle East.
Their conversation is so intense that it resembles two diplomats discussing the crisis in the Middle East.
"In telling these stories, we can go about challenging the tendency to downplay the significance and prevalence of men’s violence. We can make clear that a considerable number of men, often seemingly “good men”, perpetuate violence."
lens.monash.edu/2021/04/28/1...
lens.monash.edu/2021/04/28/1...
More than a few ‘bad apples’: Men, we need to talk about men’s violence
Monash University academic Steve Roberts offers a very personal call to action to change the conversation regarding gender-based violence.
lens.monash.edu
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
"In telling these stories, we can go about challenging the tendency to downplay the significance and prevalence of men’s violence. We can make clear that a considerable number of men, often seemingly “good men”, perpetuate violence."
lens.monash.edu/2021/04/28/1...
lens.monash.edu/2021/04/28/1...
🧵 A little thread on fatphobia during festivities
I'm thrilled to know when a person reaches a specific goal for their body, but it breaks my heart to read messages like "I need to go to the gym after Thanksgiving because I look like a whale" or "My fight against fat is going on!"
I'm thrilled to know when a person reaches a specific goal for their body, but it breaks my heart to read messages like "I need to go to the gym after Thanksgiving because I look like a whale" or "My fight against fat is going on!"
December 2, 2024 at 12:54 PM
🧵 A little thread on fatphobia during festivities
I'm thrilled to know when a person reaches a specific goal for their body, but it breaks my heart to read messages like "I need to go to the gym after Thanksgiving because I look like a whale" or "My fight against fat is going on!"
I'm thrilled to know when a person reaches a specific goal for their body, but it breaks my heart to read messages like "I need to go to the gym after Thanksgiving because I look like a whale" or "My fight against fat is going on!"
Happy birthday to my baby Maya. 13 years of pure love 🩷
December 1, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Happy birthday to my baby Maya. 13 years of pure love 🩷
" [...] the reality is that the White men who run Big Tech are not progressives. Really, how could they be? They’re billionaires."
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We’re all playing Elon Musk’s game now - Election Analysis - United States
Dr. Adrienne L. Massanari Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University. Her research focuses on platform politics, digital cultures, games, and gender and race online.…
www.electionanalysis.ws
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
" [...] the reality is that the White men who run Big Tech are not progressives. Really, how could they be? They’re billionaires."
https://buff.ly/3ZckKcS
https://buff.ly/3ZckKcS