When Alana started a website for lonely people struggling to find love, she had no idea where it would lead.

To many people, Rodger’s killing spree — known as the Isla Vista killings — was their first introduction to ‘incels’, a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate.” An incel is often ...

Much is written about the male incel movement, made up of men who self-define as “involuntary celibate” and believe that feminism has resulted in male oppression. What is an incel? Elliot ...

A lonely college student in Ottawa, in 1997 Alana started a support group and named it Alana’s Involuntary Celibacy Project, after the lifestyle she herself was living. But as the support group ...

Incel, short for involuntary celibate, refers to an online community of mainly heterosexual men frustrated by their inability ...

She was living in Toronto, Canada, and started the website, Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project, for those who were struggling to form loving relationships. She described the site as "a friendly ...

"Being celibate, whether voluntary or involuntary, does not preclude you from living a happy, creative, or fulfilled life," says Sugrue. More importantly, all three experts agree that if being in ...

Within days she was pulled into the dark side of an anti-female culture. Incel is short for "involuntary celibate", a member of a misogynistic culture which has amassed a following online.