Becoming Non-binary: An Exploration of Gender Work in Tumblr

Sharp, Megan; Shannon, Barrie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29855-5_8

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“…While interviewees agreed that Trans Time had the potential to be a safe space, Nova noted the important distinction that Trans Time is a "safer" space, as they felt that a truly safe space cannot exist. The notion of trans online spaces being "safe(r)" than other settings echoes prior work [25,81]. As Scheuerman et al [76] found, in addition to harm from outsiders, harm to trans people can also come from within the trans community.…”

Section: Trans Time As a Safe Spacementioning

confidence: 87%

Trans Time

Haimson

Buss

Weinger

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Trans related content. However, because most social media platforms are not built with trans people in mind and because online networks include people who may not accept one's trans identity, sharing trans content can be difcult. We studied Trans Time, a social media site developed particularly for trans people to document transition and build community. We interviewed early Trans Time users (n = 6) and conducted focus groups with potential users (n = 21) to understand how a trans-specifc site uniquely supports its users. We found that Trans Time has the potential to be a safe space, encourages privacy, and efectively enables its users to selectively view content using content warnings. Together, safety, privacy, and content warnings create an online space where trans people can simultaneously build community, fnd support, and express both the mundanity and excitement of trans life. Yet in each of these areas, we also learned ways that the site can improve. We provide implications for how social media sites may better support trans users, as well as insular communities of people from other marginalized groups. people often use social media to connect with others, fnd and share resources, and post transition-CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Social media; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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Section: Trans Time As a Safe Spacementioning

confidence: 87%

Trans Time

Haimson

Buss

Weinger

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Thus, body work -the practices that individuals undertake to modify their bodies in day-to-day life (Gimlin, 2007) -is greatly simpli ed. Sharp and Shannon (2020), writing in the context of queer theory, describe the process of online self-representation as 'identity curation': 'Curated' may connote a considered particularity to the kind of embodiments one chooses to perform […] By piecing together various forms of symbolism, communication, and information, queers construct identities and embodiments that are representative of their most desired self.…”

Section: Decoding Gender Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Decodings? Becoming-Ungenderable in Online Spaces

Hurley¹

2022

Reinvention

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The online self is a new kind of body, producing new kinds of affects and offering new opportunities for self-expression. This paper draws on the ontological framework developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their seminal work Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1983; 1987) to explore the operation of gender in digital space. The constitution of the (gendered) self online is understood as a deliberate, measured act, allowing users to curate their identities in ways more fully expressive of their desires than is possible offline. Two possibilities thus emerge: the imposition of gendered subjectivities may be resisted – and perhaps escaped altogether – or the masculine/feminine binary may be further entrenched through the visual medium. In either case, the Internet Age is characterised by more dynamic, creative and intense modes of gender politics.

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Networked Publics and Online Sex(uality) Education

Shannon

2022

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

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Becoming Non-binary: An Exploration of Gender Work in Tumblr

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

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Digital Decodings? Becoming-Ungenderable in Online Spaces

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