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    The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'

    Women in the movement have built Internet presences around boosting white nationalist ideologies. But journalist Seyward Darby says that outspokenness is at odds with male white nationalists' ideas.
    by Emma Bowman Aug 20, 2017 5 minutes
    Lana Lokteff, pictured, runs an alt-right media company to promote her white nationalist ideologies. But<em> </em>critics say that kind of outspokenness from a growing number of female allies is at odds with how men in the movement view women's roles.

    Last weekend, when white nationalists descended on Charlottesville to protest, it was clear that almost exclusively white, young males comprised the so-called alt-right movement — there were women, but very few.

    So where were the white women — over half of whom put Trump in the White House — who weren't out protesting in the streets?

    For the most part, journalist Seyward Darby discovered, they're online.

    "It wasn't easy" seeking out the women of the alt-right, Darby tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. "I spent a lot of time in the underbelly of the Internet — Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, 4chan, places like that — digging up contact information."

    Darby dives into the motivations behind the alt-right female alliance in for the latest issue of , "Rise of the Valkyries." She began her reporting around the time anti-Trump activists were organizing January's Women's March, when she wondered: What do the women who aren't in the resistance

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