Interview recorded in March of 2020.
Robert Stark talks with investigative journalist, actress, musician, and director Naama Kates about her journey deep inside the incel community. Naama Kates is the host of the podcast Incel. You can follow The Incel Project on Twitter and contact Naama at theincelproject@gmail.com.
Topics:
Naama’s background as an actress including roles on the show NCIS and the movie StepmomDirecting the horror film Sorceress, the documentary Dutchman Revisited, and producing ChloeNaama’s Music Videos directed by Princeton Holt from the early 2010s’ Indy CrazeNaama’s personal and political evolutionHow Naam’s fascination with incel culture started with a correspondence on TwitterWhy the media narrative about incels is wrong, harmful, and casts dispersion on a group that is already marginalizedHow Naama’s journey started out as an open ended questionMisconception that incels are a political movement and have a racial orientationIncel Lexicology and narrativesNaama’s personal interactions with incelsDisarmed by the humor of the incel forumsGuests on the podcast Incel, including a Christian pastor, a forensic psychologist, a neuro-scientist, and a psychiatristIncels as part of a greater trend of social atomization and inequality#pinkystream – naama kates on hikkikimoriErik Erikson’s Psychosocial StagesThe limitations of self improvementAre femcels a thing?Incel as a brandNaama’s upcoming podcast, ESC-Hate, featuring dialogue between opposing political sides