Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project: Difference between revisions

Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project was the first and one of the largest websites in the [[incelosphere]] in the 1990s alongside the [[Alt.support.shyness]] and [[Alt.seduction.fast]] Usenet newsgroups.  [[Alana]] created the the site as a research project at her college for involuntary celibates, but never seemed to get any research done from the early 90s to now.  In May of 1997 she described herself as a 'lesbian' who had been reading a lot of feminist writings in an article, and started the 'forum' as a mailing list later on in 1997. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030212170914/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/ic-home.html</ref> and coined the term, "incel", but eventually handed off the site after it started becoming negative in tone.  Alana now says she left after after realizing she liked to date women, however early versions of the site had an LGBTQ focus, so this is unlikely.