Epistemic Injustice: Towards Uncovering Knowledge of Bisexual Realities in Social Work Research

Iacono, Gio

doi:10.18060/21427

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“…Cf. Bostwick and Hequembourg (2014) and for the case of social work research Iacono (2017); on the relationship between bisexuality and queer and trans theory, see Erickson-Schroth and Mitchell (2009), Alexander andAnderlini-D'Onofrio (2012), andMonro (2015, ch. 2).…”

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“…In other words, bisexual individuals are erased and ostracized because they are not perceived as pure enough to be part of the group. Microaggressions that typically take place within LGBTQ communities include identity dismissals or denials, pressures to change one's self-identification, and dating exclusion (Bostwick and Hequembourg 2014;Formby 2017;Iacono 2017). In addition to the historical reasons that are linked to the formation of the gay identity, political reasons that are linked to identity politics also contribute to the marginalization and erasure of experiences that seem to complicate the picture and hinder the battles over the acknowledgment of a clearly defined gay identity.…”

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Boncompagni

2024

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The starting point of this paper is a clarification of the forms that hermeneutical injustice takes for bisexual individuals. While it is often thought that bisexuals do not need special protections or politics because they easily “pass” for straight and thus enjoy so-called hetero privilege, this precise situation is a source of oppression, silencing, erasure, and discrimination for many of them within both straight and gay environments. Bi-invisibility, bi-erasure, and persistent negative stereotypes contribute to specific forms of hermeneutical injustice for this segment of the population. Reflection on these forms, however, as well as reflection on bisexual identity, highlights some problematic aspects connected to the metaphor of hermeneutical “gaps” and the underlying theoretical model that are often used or assumed in research on epistemic injustice. With the aim of clarifying and responding to such difficulties, I introduce Wittgenstein's notion of hinges as a conceptual tool to better understand these phenomena. The case of bisexuality shows that seeing hermeneutical injustice in the light of the metaphor of hinges, instead of that of gaps, helps better grasp its features, its causes, and the forms that it can assume.

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Boncompagni

2024

Hypatia

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“…These theories aimed to deconstruct dominant narratives and examine power imbalances within society. One influential figure in this field is Michel Foucault, whose analysis of power dynamics and exploration of the history of sexuality remain highly relevant [24,25]. In examining the relationship between key concepts like heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Queer theory and mechanisms employed by AI systems, we can draw upon Foucault's insights regarding taxonomies, classifications, and power structures that contribute to the oppression faced by LGBTQ+ communities.…”

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How AI hype impacts the LGBTQ + community

McAra-Hunter

2024

AI Ethics

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Hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a feature of this technology since its inception. However, the most recent wave of AI hype has been leveraged to encourage adoption of AI technologies that cause issues for marginalised communities. Hype is also a means to obfuscate real issues of bias, harm, and exploitation felt most sharply by marginalised communities when AI is implemented. This therefore raises the question of power imbalances as a feature of AI technologies as we currently know them. This paper will study the relationship of AI hype and marginalised communities, with particular emphasis on the LGBTQ + community, and look at the way that AI impacts on this community. This paper will pose two key questions: does hype affect marginalised communities, particularly hype around new technologies such as AI; and what impact does the LGBTQ + community experience as a result of hype. This paper will then move on to discuss areas that provide a focus for discourse of AI hype and the impact on the LGBTQ + community: policy and decision-making, the maintenance of the cisgender heteronormative (cishet) baseline, the ubiquity of a mythology of AI, and the role of market expansion.

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“…Scholars in social work (see, e.g. Bell, 2014; Bourgault, 2020; Doan, 2017; Iacono, 2017; Lee et al, 2019) have used the concepts of epistemic injustice more than have their counterparts in sociolegal studies (compare, e.g. Lindsey, 2019; Tsosie, 2012).…”

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Indigenous parents and child welfare: Mistrust, epistemic injustice, and training

Leckey¹,

Schmieder-Gropen²,

Nnebe

et al. 2021

Social & Legal Studies

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The settler state's taking of Indigenous children into care disrupts their communities and continues destructive, assimilationist policies. This article presents the perceptions of lawyers, social workers and judges of how Indigenous parents experience child welfare in Quebec. Our participants characterized those experiences negatively. Barriers of language and culture as well as mistrust impede meaningful participation. Parents experience epistemic injustice, wronged in their capacity as knowers. Mistrust also hampers efforts to include Indigenous workers in the system. Emphasizing state workers’ ignorance of Indigenous family practices and the harms of settler colonialism, participants called for greater training. But critical literature on professional education signals the limits of such training to change institutions. Our findings reinforce the jurisdictional calls away from improving the system towards empowering Indigenous peoples to run services of child welfare. The patterns detected and theoretical resources used are relevant to researchers of other institutions that interact with vulnerable populations.

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Epistemic Injustice: Towards Uncovering Knowledge of Bisexual Realities in Social Work Research

Abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)

Cited by 3 publications

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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools

How AI hype impacts the LGBTQ + community

Indigenous parents and child welfare: Mistrust, epistemic injustice, and training

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