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<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030212170914/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/ic-home.html</ref> as a research project at her college for involuntary celibates in 1997, coining the word [[incel]] (originally calling it "invcel"), but never seemed to assist any published research from the early 90s to now except maybe for the [[Donnolly Study]].  Sometime before May of 1997 she described herself publicly on her website as a 'lesbian' with dating experience who had been reading a lot of feminist writings.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030206192844/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/invcel.html</ref> Alana started the first [[incel]] 'forum' as a mailing list (forum) later on in 1997.  So Alana started the mailing list (the forum) as a lesbian, contrary to some accounts suggesting she stopped considering herself as straight or started dating *after* the forum was created. In 1997, her site won an award from an LGBT organization.  In 1998, users from [[Alt.support.shyness]] were invited to participate in Alana's mailing list. Alana stopped maintaining the site in 2003 and the board was handed off to someone else after it started becoming too negative in tone for Alana.