This project investigates three key forms of practice that come together to form the sexual and literary politics of the involuntary celibate, or incel, one of the central figureheads of contemporary right-wing masculinity. Through historical and formal analysis of what author Tony Tulathimutte calls “the rejection plot,” or the narrative (non)movement of stories of sexual and social rejection, it will examine how practice - and in particular the practice or nonpractice of different forms of pedagogy - informs the gendered, sexual, and racialized violence of incels in literary and material ways. This project considers ideological practice (or how sexual theories of the world form and propagate across texts and forums), linguistic practice (how these violent ideologies become diffused into the public sphere, formally and informally), and pedagogical practice (the way in which teaching helps disseminate, challenge, and facilitate certain kinds of sexual and gendered subject formation in an era when educational institutions have become the site of, and challenge to, right-wing attacks and violence). In short, this project suggests that the rise of political extremisms and national anxieties animated by the figure of the incel are also centrally issues of practice: the practices of creating languages, narratives, and histories premised on claims to victimhood and emergent forms of sexual subjectivity.