Relationally Bare/Bear

Santoro, Patrick

doi:10.1177/1532708611435213

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“…Burtis and Joe are men who ''look like men'': beards, stocky, rugged, sleeveless T-shirts revealing tattoos and hairy chests. I meet them in my mind as exemplars of mediated masculinity, staple icons of the rural, different from the urban men with a similar aesthetic I know-and share (Santoro, 2009;Santoro, 2012;Santoro, 2014). At first glance, men like Burtis and Joe have been my teachers throughout the years, and I feel an urgency in this moment to regurgitate-and typify-all that heteronormativity has taught me.…”

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Queerscape

Santoro¹

2016

International Review of Qualitative Research

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Auto/ethnography is not an apolitical endeavor, and as a queer researcher, I never lose sight of the sensibilities that influence my work. Leading with an explicit queer positionality and relying upon critical reflexivity, this essay focuses on my two-year fieldwork in rural, conservative Old Shawneetown, Illinois. I begin by navigating the natural landscape, illustrating how Shawneetown's flood-ravaged landscape implicates (my) queer identity—as both a lens for reading queer sexuality and as a metaphor for queer loss. Then, I shift to the human landscape—my interactions with the town's residents—where I feel the necessity to stifle my queer persona in favor of a performance that passes as heterosexual. Both landscape contexts position geography as a catalyst for the autobiographical, complicating issues of ethnographic dialogue, ethics, and risk—a queerscape—as divergent selves and subjectivities challenge one another in a charged, site-specific space of heteronormativity.

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Santoro¹

2016

International Review of Qualitative Research

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“…Indeed, eating disorders are a concern for GBQ men, who are disproportionately represented amongst men who seek treatment for eating disorders (Blashill & Vander Wal, 2009;Brennan et al, 2011;Diemer, Grant, Munn-Chernoff, Patterson, & Duncan, 2015;Feldman & Meyer, 2007;Hospers & Jansen, 2005;Watson, Adjei, Saewyc, Homma, & Goodenow, 2017;Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003). Negative body image among GBQ men has also been linked to social and emotional concerns, including feelings of isolation and loneliness, lower self-esteem, and experiences of weight stigma (Blashill et al, 2014;Chaney, 2008;Edmonds & Zieff, 2015;Manley, Levitt, & Mosher, 2007;Santoro, 2012).…”

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Empirical Evaluation of Rainbow Reflections: A Comic Book Anthology on Body Image for Queer Men

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Gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men are at higher risk of negative body image. As having a negative body image is related to negative mood, sexual, and health outcomes, identifying and providing community-friendly tools for GBQ men is important. This paper describes the creation and evaluation of Rainbow Reflections, a comic anthology developed to promote awareness of and communication about body image. Rainbow Reflections includes comics from 38 trans-and cis-GBQ artists who drew inspiration from personal narratives based on predetermined themes in the empirical literature and interactive inserts based on evidence-based practice. To evaluate Rainbow Reflections, 167 trans-and cis-GBQ men completed pre-post measures before/ after viewing a selection of comics and responded to an open-ended question about their experience. Overall, participants rated the comic book positively, with a majority (61.1%) indicating that they would recommend the book to a friend. After viewing the comics, participants reported greater comfort with initiating conversations about body image, greater satisfaction with their bodies, and reported higher estimates of how common body image concerns are for queer men. Themes that emerged from open-ended responses included participants reflecting on personal struggles (~ 30%), relating with the stories of others (~ 22%), reflecting on the standards of queer men (~ 18%), recognizing cis-privilege (~ 11%), reflecting on others' struggles (~ 9%), negative feedback about the comics (~ 7%), and balancing masculine and feminine (~ 3%). Results of the study provide preliminary evidence for Rainbow Reflections as an effective community-friendly tool to promote awareness of and communication about body image for GBQ men.

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The Role of Generational Communication Differences in the Development of a Positive Gay Midlife Identity

Hajek

2017

Communication Quarterly

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Relationally Bare/Bear

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

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Empirical Evaluation of Rainbow Reflections: A Comic Book Anthology on Body Image for Queer Men

The Role of Generational Communication Differences in the Development of a Positive Gay Midlife Identity

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