Sexualities
Book Review: Women resisting sexual violence and the egyptian revolution: Arab feminist testimonies
Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
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Mediated risk: A qualitative exploration of students’ experiences flirting online
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Based on qualitative interviews with 53 college students, this article explores how digitally mediated communication is seen as a tool for risk reduction by college students when it comes to their flirtatious interactions. …
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Strategic adjustments: Daily experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons in Nairobi
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 us…
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Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 …
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Performing queer loneliness in Art AIDS America (2015–17) and Queer British Art (2017)
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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…
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Examining the political economy of heteronormativity in Southeast Asian queer migration biographies
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 d…
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‘Synced as a couple’: Responsibility, control and connection in accounts of using wireless sex devices during heterosex
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 inte…
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Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 eth…
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What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 ident…
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Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. 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 G…