Matteo Botto
🇮🇹 lv. 31
🏳️🌈 queer
🌱 social educator
🎮 nintendo gaymer
🔥 socialist transfeminist (he/they)
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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 🌱
- 🇮🇹 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
- 🌈 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.”
- 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...
- 🥳 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...
- 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.
- 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....
- 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! 🌱
- 🔥 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:
- 🧑🏻🏫 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!
- We already have countless reasons to boycott Google, and we're adding this one to the list. www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- "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...
- Happy birthday to my baby Maya. 13 years of pure love 🩷
