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Michael Conroy / Men At Work

@michaelconroy.bsky.social
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I work with people who work with boys / young men. Sometimes I work with men who abuse in relationships. Sex realist, in all cases. Am supposed to be writing a book. Also @menatwork_mc on Twitter/X

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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The hypocrisy is truly nauseating. Starmer: ‘We must end VAWG’ Starmer: ‘Give Mandelson (known facilitator, friend and pawn of child rapist, sex trafficker and rank misogynist Epstein ) his dream job’ Vomit 🤮 www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
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"There’s no solution without men and boys": We grill Keir Starmer on new plans to halve violence against women
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: It’s an ambitious and urgently needed target. But can it really be met? We put your questions to the PM
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
’you’ are a bot and this platform is shit soup, with pretensions
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Liars. It’s a man. #MVAWG
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Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS) @menvsexism.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🧵 (1/3) We just released the insightful workshop Michael (@michaelconroy.bsky.social) gave at #MACS2025 about HOW to facilitate constructive dialogues with boys and young men and WHY this is important. youtu.be/LUpfYR_qE4k In his workshop Michael explores practical approaches to constructive
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Michael Conroy (Men at Work): Facilitating Constructive Dialogues with Boys & Young Men #MACS2025
YouTube video by Male Allies Challenging Sexism
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Important reporting from Louise Callaghan Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves www.thetimes.com/article/23c8...
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Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves
A Sunday Times investigation finds that woman have been raped, imprisoned and forced into degrading acts at 24-hour streaming factories in Colombia
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Some men would vote for men who claim to be women. So that would also tick the ‘vote for misogynist’ box, while creating the illusion of shifting the paradigm.
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 •PORNOGRAPHY EXPOSED: HOW A NORMALISED INDUSTRY DESTROYS LIVES• 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton #AbolitionNow
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Alison Jenner @alisonjenner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I’m looking forward to the next @libvoice4women.bsky.social event, talking to Michael Conroy ‪@michaelconroy.bsky.social on Monday, 14 July. All welcome! liberalvoiceforwomen.telltix.com/events/liber... menatworkcic.org
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Select tickets – Michael Conroy: Men at Work – Zoom
Liberal Voice for Women invite you to join us in conversation with Michael Conroy, founder of Men At Work C.I.C - an organisati...
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Needed / needs saying Truth-telling is existential
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Speaking of highlights, James, this from Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social Especially for you, as Kylie might have said
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
IKR?
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yes, CR do great work. Big fan of Gail’s approach and analysis.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I wrote an Op Ed for @thetimes.com on how adults might best respond to #Adolescence ‘Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen’ If we don’t listen, we can’t learn. If we don’t learn, we can’t help www.thetimes.com/article/d822...
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Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen
To find out what’s going on in the lives of our boys and young men requires time, humility and structure, not a Netflix TV series
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Thanks to Helen Pidd @theguardian.com for interviewing those young men and this old one. I hope people find the podcast to be a conversation-starter. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn – podcast
Boys face a barrage of toxic influences. We talk to sixth-formers about the pressures and joys they experience
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Upcoming webinars and training dates On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working…
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Upcoming webinars and training dates
On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working with boys and young men Booking links here:
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Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I've been overwhelmed by the excellent response to this 😍
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Cheers, appreciated. I just try and do what I'm able to, where and when I'm able to
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It's an outrage that our Youth Services were so grievously wounded. The ripples are many and multiplying.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thank you Jen. I just try to sate what seems obvious - and what flows continually through the experiences of the many professionals who train with me. They know. They see. It's all palpable.
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Jen Bird @jenpenbird.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excellent to listen to this brilliant man on BBC’s Politics Live today… @michaelconroy.bsky.social Wisdom and clarity about what kids get from social media and the manosphere. As a mum of two boys, a feminist and a believer in equality we need to counteract harmful messaging for everyone’s sake.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work (@michaelconroy.bsky.social)
I work with people who work with boys / young men. Sometimes I work with men who abuse in relationships. Sex realist, in all cases. Am supposed to be writing a book. Also @menatwork_mc on Twitter/X
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Did a brief slot right at the end of BBC R4's Today prog this morning. I wasn't gr8 but the intended gist: Find out (about the #manosphere & its various facets) Show up (as a positive, curious, collaborative and reliable presence in the lives of boys and young men) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/03/2025
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Feedback from a cross section of professionals who have taken the Foundations: 12 Dialogues training. It's all about facilitating constructive engagement with boys and young men - about being safe and safe to be around. Get in touch to find out more. www.menatworkcic.org
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
‘Consent’ is a red herring, here. Ersatz ‘consent’ is easy enough to manufacture, coerce &/or extract through lack of risk awareness. One can’t consent to criminal harm There’s #NoSafeWayToStrangle, no matter what one calls it ('choking') cc @institutefas.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'He strangled me without asking': The dangers of choking during sex
Experts say it is increasingly filtering into real life as a result of frequent depiction in porn.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thank you Matthew. It was a good opportunity to cover more ground than is usually available on radio slots. Never enough, of course, as there's so much to explore.
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SHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC @sheraresearch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Please sign this petition - we have co-signed. There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This may be of interest: bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline. It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Online forums being used to trade explicit images of local women, says charity
Revenge Porn Helpline says ‘deep-seated misogyny’ behind exchange of photos on apps such as Telegram
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle. External providers of Sex Ed/RSE in UK schools should be prohibited from claiming otherwise (whether through rank ignorance or ideological capture). Please sign and share. cc @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @institutefas.bsky.social www.change.org/p/sex-educat...
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Sex Education Materials Which Normalise Strangulation ('Choking') Must Be Prohibited
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Check out our 12 Dialogues training & resource package for those working with boys/young men. A practical, jargon-free, safeguarding-focused, engagement framework around issues relating to being safe (for thmslvs) & safe to be around (for male peers, women/girls). No more, no less menatworkcic.org
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Men At Work
For Boys, Young Men & Those Who Work With Them
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
from the transgression of one’s own ethical framework rather than the kind arbitrarily induced or manufactured by external power) can be a life-saver & life-changer, whether the law works or not. We need to talk abt it more and de-stigmatise it, per se.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Detection and prosecution is an infrequent, random and unpredictable outcome. Justice is rarely done. Sometimes the hope of shame as a catalyst for cessation is literally all there is, which is deeply challenging. How do we promote the conditions in which it can happen? Shame (the kind arising
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If you spike women’s drinks so that you can sexually assault them, then it is desirable, imperative even, that you experience profound, revelatory shame, as a catalyst for ending your behaviour. It’s the only way you’ll ever stop, short of dying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police probe drink spiking report in parliament bar - BBC News
A parliamentary researcher reported her drink had been tampered with at 6.30pm on Tuesday 7 January.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It certainly should be illegal. It's a form of conspiracy to harass, surely?
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
As a man, I’m logically external to feminism & have no final opinion on what ‘real feminism’ should be, of course, as it’s a women’s movement (altho some do even cede that to men). I think men should focus on DOING anti-misogyny & not SAYING or claiming to BE something. They're very different verbs.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The kinds of ‘feminism’ such men claim to be exponents of are the ones that offer them the least challenge, which centre their egos and chime with the subordination of women. Yes, some women may use the word ‘feminism’ to describe such patriarchal mutations, more’s the pity.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Men who publicly claim to be 'feminists' are often at least as misogynistic / abusive as the men who publicly say that they hate feminism. Neil Gaiman is a classic example of that specific brand of #gaslighting nymag.com/press/articl...
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On the Cover: The Side of Neil Gaiman His Fans Never Saw
“I knew immediately there’s this dissonance between who he says he is and these stories.”
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
For sure, agreed. Took a while to understand what my physical presence could mean.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Testosterone is the petrol in the car, not the sat-nav, nor the driver 👍🏼
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As a man, I find the term #VAWG problematic when really we all know we are talking about #MVAWG (Male Violence Against Women & Girls) #TheSilentM is a problem, IMO Too many ‘M_ _’ are silent We should speak the ‘M’
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I was on @lbc.co.uk Vanessa Feltz show yesterday, discussing misogynistic influencers and their appeal to boys/young men. x.com/LBC/status/1...
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Apple is being sued for not detecting and removing child sexual abuse material from iCloud, although it has the tools to do so. Civil suits are the only measure we have to hold tech monopolies to account, in the absence of law reform from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/t...
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Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Child Sexual Abuse Material on iCloud
Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have shared the OP. I’d be surprised if any men ‘fess up to currently doing it but you never know.
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces @sisterssalon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
PLEASE SHARE STOP STREET HARASSMENT #RespectWomen Street harassment is now a crime! Learn more, including how to safely intervene & the impact of #StreetSexualHarassment Action 15 #16DaysofAction #HollaBack #MeToo #Brighton ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-fifte...
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I don’t believe them for a nano-second
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Aurora New Dawn @auroranewdawn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
CPD Accredited I Online I Thursday Dec 5th Coercive & Controlling Behaviour Join us for a comprehensive training session on Coercive and Controlling Behaviour (CCB) in intimate/family relationships. Last remaining places. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/aurora-new...
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Aurora New Dawn
Aurora New Dawn is a registered charity based in Hampshire, UK, providing support to victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking.All sessions are trained by a staff member from the Aurora ...
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Oh, and this book by @glosswitch.bsky.social is very apposite. Recommended. www.amazon.co.uk/Hags-eloquen...
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Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow) geni.us/HagsPB
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Really important to see obvious parallels. No wrestling required. Abusive men (whatever they call themselves) don’t like middle-aged women. They’re the principal historical barrier to men’s excesses. No one could sanely dispute that. Fare well.
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Michael Conroy / Men At Work @michaelconroy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Worth noting that the middle-aged women #greggwallace finds so objectionable are of the demographic who've been routinely dismissed as 'TERFS' for the past 10 yrs. It's almost as if there's something about mature women, wise to male abuse strategies, that abusive men don't like. Who'd a thunk it?
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a man in a suit says what do we say about coincidence
ALT: a man in a suit says what do we say about coincidence
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