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2023 - 2023
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‘Performing Queer Femininity and Performing It All Wrong’: The Development of the Performance Persona Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen
This chapter presents how a profound engagement with my own alternative and non-normative femininity has a determining role in the creation and development of performance persona Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen...
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Koinonia: Crafting Permission for Queer Deviance
Koinonia is a Greek word with multiple meanings, including intimacy, community, and communion. It is also the title of the elemental ritual play spaces Rev. Rowan Bombadil and the Terrific Team held on a quarterl...
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From the Local to the International: Domestic Politics and International Advocacy 1990‒1992
The next stage of the journey found me unexpectedly appointed as an ‘Expert’ and invited to a meeting of the UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) to present the findings of the research. This amazing ex...
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More Pleasure in My Leisure (or Practice Makes Pervert)
This chapter reflects on the writer’s years in the world of kink, the intersection of leisure and deviance, and what aging and menopause means about their membership in this exclusive and often underground gro...
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Interlogue
This interlogue is the division between Stage One of the story, of having rape in conflict named as a war crime in international law and policy, and Stage Two, when Linda joined, and we worked to have these ad...
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Survivors, Protectors, Providers: Refugee Women Speak Out from Gender Mainstreaming to the Regional Dialogues—2009–2011
As we moved forward the dangers of ‘gender mainstreaming’ as a policy solution were challenged. The numbers of refugees and forcibly displaced persons spiralled upwards, while resources and political will to r...
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Intersectionality, Identity and Refugee Women-2001–2002: ‘I Will Give You a Prize If You Can Find a Woman in This Camp Who Has Not Been Raped’
A packed chapter. Eileen becomes the Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, ANCORW joins us at UNSW, and we hosted a National Conference to review Bei**g plus Five, and an International Conference on Re...
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Refugee Women From the Margins to the Centre—2017–2020
We explain the significance of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (NYD), and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). We lobbied for a ‘Gender Audit’ of the proceedings when the strong text of the...
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The Power of Women Speaking Out: A Risk Assessment and Response Tool, a CSW Resolution and a UNHCR Conclusion—2005–2008
We were drawn into the response in Sri Lanka following the devastating 2004 tsunami. There were clear parallels between the experience of refugee women and those of women post-disaster, in particular rape, sex...
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Correction to: Anger and Despair—Naming the ‘Elephants in the Room’—2012–2016
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Introduction: Something Wicked This Way Comes
In this chapter we set out the conceptual landscape of the book. We explore the place studies of deviant leisure have had within the wider field of leisure studies and its somewhat lesser presence within event...
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Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women
From Refugee Camps to the United Nations
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Playing It Our Own Way: Trans Deviations of Game Design
Games, both digital and analog, like all mainstream popular culture, feature a significant lack of LGBTQIA+ inclusion and representation. This might lead to the presumption that games are limited in their scop...
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The Fall and Rise of Role-Playing Games: From Societal Pariah to Psychological Support
Role-playing games are currently enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world. However, as portrayed in the fourth season of Stranger Things, their benefits have not always been appreciated: the hobby c...
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There and Back Again: Trains to a Queer Emancipation
This chapter explores the juxtaposition between queer leisure, travel, and the journeys to get there. It uses an autoethnographic lens exploring the juxtaposition of queer identities and travel. The act of tra...
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Easter with the Family
Every Easter weekend for the past 21 years uninterrupted (until Covid), the SM Dyke community has gathered in Berlin for their annual conference. Four days of workshops and parties, cruising and socialising. A...
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Opening Pandora’s Box: Rape, Sexual Abuse and Refugee Women: 1989–1990
Our story begins. In 1985, a group of Australian women attended the United Nations (UN) Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi and returned determined to respond to the urgent needs of refugee women and gi...
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The Deviant Leisure of Gym Bodies, Militarized Branding and Fascistic Creeps
This chapter explores the rapid acceleration and viral dissemination of masculine fitness culture as a deviant leisure activity (Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. The Free Press, 1963). We ...
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Subcutaneous Stories from the Deviant City: Chemsex Congregations, Urban Explorations, and Occult Inclinations in the Art of Manchester Penetrated
Manchester Penetrated (@mcrpenetrated) is a multi-disciplinary transgressive queer art construct created and curated by the dual personalities of Patrick Baxter/Dr. Sebastian Baxter. For a half decade they have c...
