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 community and board wwas handed off to someone else who created [[IncelSite.com]] after it started becoming too negative in tone for Alana.