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‘In and Out, On and Off: LGBT+ Online Experiences’
It is widely acknowledged that the internet impacts on our lives in ever more ways. This is particularly true for young people, arguably the group...
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Hate Hurts: Exploring the Impacts of LGBTQ+ Online Hate
Thus far, this research has begun to share the role research as activism plays within hate studies. To motivate social change, activism often needs...
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Mobilising Extremism in Times of Change: Analysing the UK’s Far-Right Online Content During the Pandemic
The growing dissension towards the political handling of COVID-19, widespread job losses, backlash to extended lockdowns, and hesitancy surrounding...
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Reaffirming Womanhood: Young Transwomen and Online Sex Work in the Philippines
TranspinaysTranspinay or Filipina transwomen are vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) and discriminationDiscrimination. In this chapter, I...
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Too Lucky to Be a Victim? An Exploratory Study of Online Harassment and Hate Messages Faced by Social Media Influencers
Influencers are persistently exposed through social media. Once almost unapproachable, celebrities are now open to daily interaction with the public....
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Understanding Cultural Policing and Segregation of LGBTQ+ Communities in Poland
This chapter comprises a partisan, critical criminological contribution to this volume, consisting of an analysis of discriminatory policing...
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Intimate Partner Violence Among Older LGBT Adults: Unique Risk Factors, Issues in Reporting and Treatment, and Recommendations for Research, Practice, and Policy
Although intimate partner violence (IPV)Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among older LGBT adultsOlder LGBT adults is associated with significant...
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Heteronormativity and the Victimization of Bisexual and Pansexual Women: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
Recent research suggests that bisexual women may be at high risk for victimization due to their non-monosexual identities, yet it is unclear whether...
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Love, Hate and Sovereign Bodies: The Exigencies of Aboriginal Online Dating
Dating apps have become widely used by those seeking friendship, fun, casual sex and romance. They also mimic settler violence often perpetrated in...
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Hate Speech in Online Spaces
The ever-increasing centrality of the Internet, especially social media, in people’s everyday lives has led to heightened fears over the growth of...
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‘Is This a Hate Speech?’ The Difficulty in Combating Radicalisation in Coded Communications on Social media Platforms
The use of the Internet for the purposes of radicalisation is well understood. The use of social media platforms to spread messages of hate and...
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Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom
In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might “play” with(in) the state to pursue...
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Trans-Neutrality in Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision in the USA and Canada
Trans women have distinct dynamics in abusive relationships that cisgender women may not experience (e.g., purposeful misgendering). Therefore, it is...
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Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
Recent scholarship has highlighted the negative treatment of femme/feminized people (often labeled as anti-femininity or femmephobia) when it comes...
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Introduction
As social science researchers, it is important to recognise our underpinning motivations for why we choose to research certain topics. Our...
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“When they saw me dancing at birthdaySingapore parties as a kid, they already knew!” declares Kathryn, a transpinayTranspinay (Filipina transwoman)...
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It’s Just a Preference: Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Peoples and Technologically Facilitated Violence
Carlson (Journal of Sociology 56:133–150, 2020) argues that dating apps are not ‘neutral’ spaces and do not exist outside of broader power dynamics...
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Policing Student Protests in Turkey: From the Promise of ‘Citizen in Uniform’ to Dictating ‘létat c’est moi’
To fulfill the requirements of European Union membership, Turkey promised to improve policing policies and practices in the first decade of the...