SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1177/13634607231197055
Karolína Zlámalová
{"title":"“Sky-high, matte black faux snakeskin heals”: Femininity, clothes, and humor in Jacob Tobia’s Sissy","authors":"Karolína Zlámalová","doi":"10.1177/13634607231197055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231197055","url":null,"abstract":"The article traces the interweaving of femininity, clothes, and humor in Jacob Tobia’s 2019 memoir Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. It first discusses the societal devaluation of the femme and queer femininity Tobia textually constructs. It then argues that in Sissy, this femininity is enacted primarily through clothes, which appear as a symbol and a proxy for the protagonist’s identity, a source of embodied pleasures, and an organizing element of the narrative. Finally, the article demonstrates that Tobia employs humor to counter the devaluation targeting their kind of femininity, and to reclaim this femininity as a site of pride, resilience, and joy.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45295646","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1177/13634607231197061
Hannah Tessler
{"title":"Aromanticism, asexuality, and relationship (non-)formation: How a-spec singles challenge romantic norms and reimagine family life","authors":"Hannah Tessler","doi":"10.1177/13634607231197061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231197061","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, I demonstrate how individuals on the aromantic and asexual spectrums navigate their sexual and intimate relationships. Through quantitative data analysis as well as interviews with aromantic and/or asexual singles, this study reveals the complexity of sexuality and intersections between sex, romance, and constructs of family. First, I highlight how alloromantic (non-aromantic) asexual singles are most likely to express interest in romantic relationships, followed by aromantic allosexual (non-asexual) singles, whereas aromantic asexual singles showed little interest in romantic relationships. Then, I focus on how aromantic and asexual spectrum interviewees (1) subvert expectations for normative sexual and romantic partnership, (2) untangle notions of sex, romance, and family, and (3) reimagine relationships and kinship to form their own intimacies.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45301618","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1177/13634607231197054
Abed Al Wahab Kassir
{"title":"LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution","authors":"Abed Al Wahab Kassir","doi":"10.1177/13634607231197054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231197054","url":null,"abstract":"The Lebanese Revolution (2019) made two forms of LGBTQ activism visible. While Helem (2004–present), the first and the most renowned LGBT organization in Lebanon and the Arab World, called for wide participation, affirming the importance of visibility, pride, and equality, others expressed more radical forms of the LGBTQ political agency. In this article, I concern myself with the second form, analyzing LGBTQ radical resistance as an approach and a new form of self-politicization. I look at the meanings behind their critical engagements and tactics, arguing that radical activists have broadened LGBTQ activism beyond the homonormative discourse of visibility and equality. They experience new forms of mobilization in the public space that stand against assimilation politics and respectability politics while creating a new form of what I call “LGBTQ emergent care” that appeared to empower and validate the self and the other.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48385008","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/13634607231174548
Nikolina Calic, Roger Patulny
{"title":"The impact of gendered scripts on chlamydia and safe-sex on young Australian men and women’s performance of gender and sexual responsibility","authors":"Nikolina Calic, Roger Patulny","doi":"10.1177/13634607231174548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231174548","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, young Australian’s rates of chlamydia infection have been steadily increasing with notable differences between young men and women (Kirby Institute, 2018). We explore the impact of gendered scripts on chlamydia and safe-sex on young heterosexual men and women’s performance of gender and sexual responsibility. We examine findings from a Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) of key Australian public health websites, alongside in-depth interviews, and qualitative survey responses of students from an Australian university. The FDA identified gendered scripts in public health resources that generally avoided focussing on men in favour of encouraging women to take responsibility for couple’s safe-sex behaviour. Interviews revealed heteronormative gendered scripts framed many sexual practices with stronger focus on unwanted pregnancy than STIs, disproportionate targeting of women for STI testing by doctors and more open discussions on sexual health among women. Interviews also highlighted the absence of a normative ‘formula’ – or script – for safe-sex discussions.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47079617","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1177/13634607231193347
Cécile Thomé
{"title":"Hierarchies in heterosexuality: Orgasms, intercourse and sexual scripts","authors":"Cécile Thomé","doi":"10.1177/13634607231193347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231193347","url":null,"abstract":"This article, based on a set of 71 interviews conducted in France between 2014 and 2017, examines the basis of contemporary scripts for ‘good’ heterosex and reciprocal pleasure. It shows that, paradoxically, the male discourse on the pre-eminence of female orgasm falls within a persistently gendered order in which male desire prevails. It finds that non-penetrative genital practices continue to be stigmatized and are in general only practiced in conjunction with penile-vaginal intercourse. Interviews show that when people adopt what are still considered ‘inferior’ scripts it is usually as a result of external constraints. This article adds to our knowledge of changes in contemporary heterosexual practices over time but also what remains unchanged, while shedding light on current dynamics in gender relations.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42002766","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-05DOI: 10.1177/13634607231170770
Hannah McCann, M. Sharp
{"title":"#MeToo, Cisheteropatriarchy and LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence on Campus","authors":"Hannah McCann, M. Sharp","doi":"10.1177/13634607231170770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231170770","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines two case studies related to LGBTQ disclosures of sexual violence on university campuses, in the US and Australia. We argue that in a landscape of mediated #MeToo discourse, LGBTQ testimonies are often mapped onto a cisheteropatriarchal framework which limits adequate institutional responses to LGBTQ experiences of sexual violence. We illustrate how resolutions are often imagined via individualised empowerment narratives, and how this works in concert with the cisheteropatriarchal framing to delimit responses to sexual violence. We consider alternative possibilities for accounting for LGBTQ experiences going forward, and how institutions like universities might better respond to these issues.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49136182","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1177/13634607231193312
Katrien De Graeve, Ladan Rahbari, Nika Looman
{"title":"From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium","authors":"Katrien De Graeve, Ladan Rahbari, Nika Looman","doi":"10.1177/13634607231193312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231193312","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks into ageist and generationalist assumptions that penetrate queer spatio-temporal imageries and explore how to resist oppressive temporalities. It draws on fieldwork in a queer advocacy group and qualitative interviews with trans-, lesbian-, and women-identifying participants in Belgium to explore notions of age and ageism in queer communities. The research relates to feminist generationalism and searches for more complex notions of generationality that complicate the idea of horizontal generations or waves succeeding each other in progressive time. We address the conflicts and dissimilarities across the generational divide to question and trouble the viability of allochronic categorizations in feminist queer movements.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44573531","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1177/13634607231193352
Stephany Yolanda Ril, M. M. Mello, R. Moretti-Pires
{"title":"Queer kinship: Experiences of double-motherhood in Brazil","authors":"Stephany Yolanda Ril, M. M. Mello, R. Moretti-Pires","doi":"10.1177/13634607231193352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231193352","url":null,"abstract":"A survey was conducted with nine Brazilian cisgender, non-heterosexual women who are mothers, with the aim of understanding the challenges faced by double-motherhood in Brazil. Nine interviews and one focus group were conducted online and asynchronously through WhatsApp. The data was transcribed and subjected to thematic analysis. The findings revealed four categories: IC as a form of resistance; violence and LGBTphobia against queer motherhood; the invisibility of queer motherhood in relation to the state; and queer subjectivity. This research concludes that double-motherhood can be seen as a form of resistance, as the mothers use technologies, such as home insemination.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45575947","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1177/13634607231191426
Sara Tyberg
{"title":"Book Review: Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private","authors":"Sara Tyberg","doi":"10.1177/13634607231191426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231191426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46224876","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}
SexualitiesPub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1177/13634607231191434
Keyu Alexander Chen
{"title":"Book Review: Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire","authors":"Keyu Alexander Chen","doi":"10.1177/13634607231191434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231191434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42583246","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}