Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety

IF 2.1 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Sexualities Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI:10.1177/13634607231221993
Elizabeth Reed, Laura Paddon, Eleanor Wilkinson, Cathryn MacLeod
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This paper presents findings from a project exploring how lesbians make community in the ‘ordinary city’ of Southampton on the South coast of England. In the context of trans-exclusionary debates and the supposed demise of lesbian spaces, we sought to discover how self-identified lesbian people in Southampton conceptualised the location and boundaries of their community. The study used collaborative participatory mapping techniques, which resulted in a diffuse and multi-layered understanding of lesbian community in the city. The paper focuses on three key themes: (1) crafting ‘safe’ spaces; (2) terminology: naming ‘lesbians’ and (3) finding and creating places of community. The paper concludes that finding a space to articulate an explicitly lesbian identity can be fraught, but is deeply valued, continually becoming, and carefully negotiated both between peers and within urban space. Collaborative mapping is shown as a valuable tool in delivering more inclusive participatory research that can help foster transformative and emancipatory research into LGBTQ communities and spaces.
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绘制小城市女同性恋者的日常社区建设图:(不)可见性、归属感和安全性
本文介绍了一个探索女同性恋者如何在英格兰南部海岸的 "普通城市 "南安普顿建立社区的项目的研究成果。在跨性别排斥辩论和女同性恋空间消亡的背景下,我们试图发现南安普顿自我认同的女同性恋是如何构思其社区的位置和边界的。研究采用了合作参与式制图技术,从而对该市的女同性恋社区有了一个分散的、多层次的理解。论文重点关注三个关键主题:(1) 创造 "安全 "空间;(2) 术语:命名 "女同性恋";(3) 寻找和创造社区场所。本文的结论是,寻找一个明确表达女同性恋身份的空间可能是充满挑战的,但在同龄人之间以及在城市空间内都是非常有价值的、不断变化的和经过仔细协商的。合作制图是提供更具包容性的参与式研究的重要工具,有助于促进对女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者社区和空间的变革性和解放性研究。
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Sexualities
Sexualities SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Consistently one of the world"s leading journals in the exploration of human sexualities within a truly interdisciplinary context, Sexualities publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles that exemplify the very best of current research. It is published six times a year and aims to present cutting-edge debate and review for an international readership of scholars, lecturers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. Sexualities publishes work of an analytic and ethnographic nature which describes, analyses, theorizes and provides a critique on the changing nature of the social organization of human sexual experience in the late modern world.
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