Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1177/13634607231224237
S. A. Divon, Ann W Vestlie, R. Jessen
Despite International efforts by NGOs and social movements to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) people in Africa, they still face injustices, stigma, and discrimination. This study uses an assemblage approach to analyze narratives collected through interviews with LGBTQI individuals in Nairobi, Kenya about the daily strategies they use to navigate the tensions between their need for livelihood security, personal safety, and their gender and sexual identity. The study employs the analysis of daily experiences to discuss how contexts and preferences interact with internal sexual identities and choices for external expressions of sexual identities.
{"title":"Strategic adjustments: Daily experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons in Nairobi","authors":"S. A. Divon, Ann W Vestlie, R. Jessen","doi":"10.1177/13634607231224237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231224237","url":null,"abstract":"Despite International efforts by NGOs and social movements to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) people in Africa, they still face injustices, stigma, and discrimination. This study uses an assemblage approach to analyze narratives collected through interviews with LGBTQI individuals in Nairobi, Kenya about the daily strategies they use to navigate the tensions between their need for livelihood security, personal safety, and their gender and sexual identity. The study employs the analysis of daily experiences to discuss how contexts and preferences interact with internal sexual identities and choices for external expressions of sexual identities.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"131 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1177/13634607231221993
Elizabeth Reed, Laura Paddon, Eleanor Wilkinson, Cathryn MacLeod
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.
{"title":"Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety","authors":"Elizabeth Reed, Laura Paddon, Eleanor Wilkinson, Cathryn MacLeod","doi":"10.1177/13634607231221993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231221993","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138999283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1177/13634607231221622
Liang-Kai Yu
This article discusses issues of racial marginalisation within two significant museum exhibitions, Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017). Specifically, the study centres on the responsive work of two young artists, Kia LaBeija and Travis Alabanza, who perform feelings of alienation to protest against the under-representation of queer and trans artists of colour in both museum exhibitions. Through an affective analysis of their artistic embodiment mobilising emotions of loneliness, I argue that such artistic expressions of queer loneliness, in relation to the excluding effects of the two museum exhibitions, are productive acts. They contribute to the building of emotional resilience and the recognition of intersectional communities.
{"title":"Performing queer loneliness in Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017)","authors":"Liang-Kai Yu","doi":"10.1177/13634607231221622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231221622","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses issues of racial marginalisation within two significant museum exhibitions, Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017). Specifically, the study centres on the responsive work of two young artists, Kia LaBeija and Travis Alabanza, who perform feelings of alienation to protest against the under-representation of queer and trans artists of colour in both museum exhibitions. Through an affective analysis of their artistic embodiment mobilising emotions of loneliness, I argue that such artistic expressions of queer loneliness, in relation to the excluding effects of the two museum exhibitions, are productive acts. They contribute to the building of emotional resilience and the recognition of intersectional communities.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"7 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139004982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/13634607231221787
Quah Ee Ling
This article examines the workings of heteronormativity in Southeast Asian queer migration biographies. By Southeast Asian queer migrants, the project refers to people self-identifying as gender and sexuality diverse from dominant gender and sexuality binary systems and people with variations in sex characteristics who have emigrated out of their home country in the Southeast Asian region. The exploratory study makes use of qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with 15 queer migrants from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and The Philippines and Thailand on their local and transnational familial care practices and needs. The respondents on one hand, through emigration, have attempted to veer off from discriminatory heteronormative structures in their home country and enjoyed relatively more space and opportunities in the receiving society to construct queer familial care practices. On the other hand, their queer migration biographies show how they continue to be implicated in the political economy of heteronormativity locally through their own queer familial practices and transnationally through their financial and emotional remittances to support heteronormative families of origin. The article argues that queer citizens and migrants deserve equal if not greater recognition for their unrelenting local and transnational care efforts to sustain heteronormative families in a global neoliberal economy and should not have to experience exclusion for being deemed as having deviated from heteronormative structures.
{"title":"Examining the political economy of heteronormativity in Southeast Asian queer migration biographies","authors":"Quah Ee Ling","doi":"10.1177/13634607231221787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231221787","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the workings of heteronormativity in Southeast Asian queer migration biographies. By Southeast Asian queer migrants, the project refers to people self-identifying as gender and sexuality diverse from dominant gender and sexuality binary systems and people with variations in sex characteristics who have emigrated out of their home country in the Southeast Asian region. The exploratory study makes use of qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews with 15 queer migrants from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and The Philippines and Thailand on their local and transnational familial care practices and needs. The respondents on one hand, through emigration, have attempted to veer off from discriminatory heteronormative structures in their home country and enjoyed relatively more space and opportunities in the receiving society to construct queer familial care practices. On the other hand, their queer migration biographies show how they continue to be implicated in the political economy of heteronormativity locally through their own queer familial practices and transnationally through their financial and emotional remittances to support heteronormative families of origin. The article argues that queer citizens and migrants deserve equal if not greater recognition for their unrelenting local and transnational care efforts to sustain heteronormative families in a global neoliberal economy and should not have to experience exclusion for being deemed as having deviated from heteronormative structures.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"15 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.1177/13634607231218832
Tinonee Pym, Alexandra James, Andrea Waling, Jennifer Power, G. Dowsett
While most research on digital sex toys to date has focussed on their affordances and marketing, or issues of data governance and privacy, research on user experience is limited. This article centres the accounts of 11 interviewees who used digital sex devices within mostly heterosexual relations, and often for remote partnered sex. We demonstrate how digital sex toys offer creative potential and possibilities for sexual pleasure and connection, and explore to what extent this challenges normative gendered dynamics and expectations of heterosex. We conclude that digital sex devices operate as allies with which users navigate and continually re-make heterosexual sex.
{"title":"‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex","authors":"Tinonee Pym, Alexandra James, Andrea Waling, Jennifer Power, G. Dowsett","doi":"10.1177/13634607231218832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231218832","url":null,"abstract":"While most research on digital sex toys to date has focussed on their affordances and marketing, or issues of data governance and privacy, research on user experience is limited. This article centres the accounts of 11 interviewees who used digital sex devices within mostly heterosexual relations, and often for remote partnered sex. We demonstrate how digital sex toys offer creative potential and possibilities for sexual pleasure and connection, and explore to what extent this challenges normative gendered dynamics and expectations of heterosex. We conclude that digital sex devices operate as allies with which users navigate and continually re-make heterosexual sex.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"9 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139237456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1177/13634607231218115
David Kwok Kwan Tsoi
This article examines the boundary work of ethics in same-sex relationships between sex workers and clients in Hong Kong, a neoliberal cosmopolitan city that decriminalized homosexuality in 1991. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork between August 2019 and June 2020, I investigate the changing same-sex relationships between masseurs and clients in and outside gay massage parlors in Hong Kong. From in-house payment for sex to different off-premise gift exchanges, masseurs and clients transition from a market economy as sex workers and clients to the moral economy as real-life romantic and business partners. I build on Viviana Zelizer’s theory of relational work to examine how various forms of intersections of intimacy and economy are made ethical at different stages of masseur–client relationships. A historically contingent form of ethical intimacy emerges from the same-sex sexual economy as a queer response to socioeconomic inequalities in neoliberal Hong Kong.
{"title":"Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong","authors":"David Kwok Kwan Tsoi","doi":"10.1177/13634607231218115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231218115","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the boundary work of ethics in same-sex relationships between sex workers and clients in Hong Kong, a neoliberal cosmopolitan city that decriminalized homosexuality in 1991. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork between August 2019 and June 2020, I investigate the changing same-sex relationships between masseurs and clients in and outside gay massage parlors in Hong Kong. From in-house payment for sex to different off-premise gift exchanges, masseurs and clients transition from a market economy as sex workers and clients to the moral economy as real-life romantic and business partners. I build on Viviana Zelizer’s theory of relational work to examine how various forms of intersections of intimacy and economy are made ethical at different stages of masseur–client relationships. A historically contingent form of ethical intimacy emerges from the same-sex sexual economy as a queer response to socioeconomic inequalities in neoliberal Hong Kong.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/13634607231215702
Silva Luna Harmsen, R. Spronk
Same-sex erotic desire, or same-sex orientation, has become commonly understood and expressed through the notion of sexual identity. This article takes an intergenerational perspective to study the genealogy of sexual identity in the Netherlands. The authors explore how queer people perceive their feelings of same-sex desire and whether or not they come to understand their erotic desire in terms of sexual classifications. Their research shows that when discourses on gender and sexuality shift, the way people make sense of their erotic desire takes different forms. It appears that people’s lived reality is messier than the notion of sexual identity presumes.
{"title":"What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands","authors":"Silva Luna Harmsen, R. Spronk","doi":"10.1177/13634607231215702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231215702","url":null,"abstract":"Same-sex erotic desire, or same-sex orientation, has become commonly understood and expressed through the notion of sexual identity. This article takes an intergenerational perspective to study the genealogy of sexual identity in the Netherlands. The authors explore how queer people perceive their feelings of same-sex desire and whether or not they come to understand their erotic desire in terms of sexual classifications. Their research shows that when discourses on gender and sexuality shift, the way people make sense of their erotic desire takes different forms. It appears that people’s lived reality is messier than the notion of sexual identity presumes.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"46 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1177/13634607231215763
Katrin Tiidenberg, Susanna Paasonen, Jenny Sunden, Maria Vihlman
Building on a study of three Nordic and Baltic digital sexual platforms, this article analyzes the perceptions of enjoyable sex and sexual belonging among 60 people, who self-identify as sexually liberal. In dialogue with Gayle Rubin’s formative work on sexual hierarchies and “good sex,” we explore our participants’ complex and often ambiguous sexual boundary work to delineate liberated sex. Independent of particular preferences (non-monogamy, BDSM, fetishism, and exhibitionism), liberated sex for our participants is definitionally enjoyable and articulated via an aspirational hierarchy based on willingness, diversity/variability, and self-reflexivity—partly set against national sexual imaginaries of vanilla normalcy, yet allowing vanilla some gradations and nuances.
{"title":"Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms","authors":"Katrin Tiidenberg, Susanna Paasonen, Jenny Sunden, Maria Vihlman","doi":"10.1177/13634607231215763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231215763","url":null,"abstract":"Building on a study of three Nordic and Baltic digital sexual platforms, this article analyzes the perceptions of enjoyable sex and sexual belonging among 60 people, who self-identify as sexually liberal. In dialogue with Gayle Rubin’s formative work on sexual hierarchies and “good sex,” we explore our participants’ complex and often ambiguous sexual boundary work to delineate liberated sex. Independent of particular preferences (non-monogamy, BDSM, fetishism, and exhibitionism), liberated sex for our participants is definitionally enjoyable and articulated via an aspirational hierarchy based on willingness, diversity/variability, and self-reflexivity—partly set against national sexual imaginaries of vanilla normalcy, yet allowing vanilla some gradations and nuances.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"49 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1177/13634607231212809
Daniel Copulsky, Phillip L Hammack
With its emphasis on practices like social distancing and periods of intermittent isolation, the COVID-19 pandemic likely presented unique challenges for individuals who engage in consensual nonmonogamy (CNM). Interviews with 16 practitioners of CNM in the United States conducted in May–July, 2021 revealed five themes about how COVID-19 impacted their relationships: (1) slowing down relationship activity and progress; (2) speeding up relationship changes and milestones; (3) providing the opportunity for reflecting on nonmonogamous identities and relationships; (4) facilitation of clarifying intentions around nonmonogamous relationships; and (5) offering unique opportunities to apply skills from safer sex negotiations to navigating safety with precautions related to COVID-19. Findings illuminate how members of a community whose intimate practices were uniquely impacted in a time of limited sociality made meaning of their experience and charted the course for relationship trajectories.
{"title":"Consensual nonmonogamous relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Daniel Copulsky, Phillip L Hammack","doi":"10.1177/13634607231212809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231212809","url":null,"abstract":"With its emphasis on practices like social distancing and periods of intermittent isolation, the COVID-19 pandemic likely presented unique challenges for individuals who engage in consensual nonmonogamy (CNM). Interviews with 16 practitioners of CNM in the United States conducted in May–July, 2021 revealed five themes about how COVID-19 impacted their relationships: (1) slowing down relationship activity and progress; (2) speeding up relationship changes and milestones; (3) providing the opportunity for reflecting on nonmonogamous identities and relationships; (4) facilitation of clarifying intentions around nonmonogamous relationships; and (5) offering unique opportunities to apply skills from safer sex negotiations to navigating safety with precautions related to COVID-19. Findings illuminate how members of a community whose intimate practices were uniquely impacted in a time of limited sociality made meaning of their experience and charted the course for relationship trajectories.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135392387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1177/13634607231212849
Njeri E Wainaina, Nancy Lombard, Priscilla Bretuo
This paper is a small scale feminist enquiry into the experiences of seven queer Kenyan women using Instagram to assert and navigate queer agency. The ways the existence of queer women in Kenya is subject to erasure, epistemically, symbolically and materially, is explored and highlighted how this can render queer women ‘unimagined’ in the now ‘democratic’ Kenyan regime. Queer women in Kenya are now reconfiguring social media spaces such as Instagram to push back on erasure and assert their existence. Drawing upon postcolonial feminism, this study shows that spaces like Instagram are locations where these women are making themselves ‘visible’ and ‘reimagined’.
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