Human Sexuality Studieshttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1411122024-03-29T07:58:47Z2024-03-29T07:58:47Z“You’re really cute for a black guy” - a mixed methods approach to sexual racism on gay dating applicationsO’Brien, Nathan Patrickhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2139702020-01-22T23:35:33Z2019-01-01T00:00:00Z“You’re really cute for a black guy” - a mixed methods approach to sexual racism on gay dating applications
O’Brien, Nathan Patrick
Sexual Racism is the covert form of racial prejudice enacted in the context of sex or
romance. This is apparent within online dating spaces, specifically among gay dating
applications like that of Grindr. There is a large amount of literature on gay dating apps,
specifically Grindr, however most of this literature focuses on issues outside of race. The
present study focuses on the intersections of racism and dating relationships among gay
men of color. This study uses a blended quantitative and qualitative survey to gather data
regarding experiences of discrimination on gay dating applications among 100 men of
color across the United States and Canada. It focuses on how gay men of color navigate
gay dating apps and how these apps shape their relationships and sexuality. Findings
suggest that racism in gay dating apps can negatively affect how gay men of color
navigate these online spaces and cope with their experiences of discrimination. The study
concludes that many participants experience various forms of discrimination and the
toxicity that plagues gay dating applications has got to change as soon as possible.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe tie that binds us together : queer Filipina/x Americans, kinship, and survivalMendoza, Tiffany Mariehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2139502020-01-22T23:54:09Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe tie that binds us together : queer Filipina/x Americans, kinship, and survival
Mendoza, Tiffany Marie
Acts of care, intimacy, and struggle are practiced outside of ascribed traditional family
structures. Queer kinship is cultivated and nurtured by folks—biological or nonbiological,
queer or non-queer—who intentionally choose to be in each other’s lives.
Queer kinship not only operates based on the identities of queer or non-queer people, but
rather the practices, commitments, and shared values and principles of everyone
involved. In an exploratory study, I centralize queer Filipina/x experiences with
queemess and queer kinship to argue that queer kinship is an intimate site of care,
resilience, resistance, and struggle. I assert that queer kinship and the practices involved
are material responses to current social, political, and economic conditions. Additionally,
I build on using “queer” as an identity marker, rather, I highlight the material
manifestations of queerness through mundane care practices and the collective process of
unlearning internalized homophobia. Participants in the study demonstrate that they build
genuine and intentional long-lasting relationships with one another for the purpose of
fighting for a socially just future.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe not-so-typical patient : gynecological teaching associates and the struggle to queer medicineMacFife, Bexhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2139462020-10-21T10:00:10Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe not-so-typical patient : gynecological teaching associates and the struggle to queer medicine
MacFife, Bex
Medical education is a site for the reproduction of social inequalities: without
emphasis otherwise, healthcare students rely on a default cultural imaginary of a
“typical” patient, “average” person, and “normal” concerns. Within that normative
imaginary, the unanticipated patient becomes a special case, someone to be treated
differently and likely to face discrimination. Gynecological Teaching Associates
(GTAs) attempt to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities as they teach pelvic
and breast exams within healthcare schools. In this project, I interviewed GTAs—all
of whom act as both instructors and models in their teaching practice, identify as
queer, and bring to established feminist GTA practice a patient advocacy that insists
on the inclusion of queer and other marginalized identities. Driven by their own queer
experiences in conventional health care, participants incorporate routinely left-out
patients by incorporating into their instruction examples of othered behaviors,
identities, and bodies. As they challenge the categories and assumptions that pervade
systems of medical education, GTAs engage in a form of social change activism and
further efforts to queer medicine. However, even as the GTA job description affords
opportunities for queer activism, it also restricts GTAs’ queeress. I examine the
neoliberal, self-advocating patient typography that GTAs may unintentionally
emphasize and explore how queer activism might become more transformative in
GTA teaching, medical education, patient-provider interactions, and other pedagogical
settings.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZSalsa dancing : exploring ethnic and gender performances in heteronormative and queer spacesIbarra, Jazmin Victoriahttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2139142020-01-22T23:35:50Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZSalsa dancing : exploring ethnic and gender performances in heteronormative and queer spaces
Ibarra, Jazmin Victoria
Salsa is one of the most popular forms of Latin Dance practiced among multiethnic
communities across the United States since its introduction in the mid-20th century. Its
development has resulted in conversations around dance, culture, embodiment and sexual
expression. Dancers’ behaviors and interactions demonstrate how cultural notions
belonging to Latinx communities interrelate with constructs of gender and sexuality.
Current literature predominantly interrogates more heteronormative spaces in Western
society leaving a gap to further explore how interactions between dancers are motivated
in queer spaces. Ethnographic research was conducted in heteronormative and nonheteronormative
salsa communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the fall of
2018, data was collected from observational notes taken from several field visits at each
of the salsa venues. Using an intersectional approach, was key to highlighting nuances
observed between the various performances enacted by salsa dancers. Themes emerged
from the data that expand upon Goffinan’s theories of performance. Analysis of the
dancers’ gender and ethnic performance draws conclusion on human sexual desire and
motives that reinforce white heterosexist ideologies in queer and heteronormative salsa
communities.
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