LGBTQ Persons’ Use of Online Spaces to Navigate Conception, Pregnancy, and Pregnancy Loss: An Intersectional Approach

2022 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Nazanin Andalibi ◽  
Ashley Lacombe-Duncan ◽  
Lee Roosevelt ◽  
Kylie Wojciechowski ◽  
Cameron Giniel
Keyword(s):  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Informational Needs ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Symbolic Annihilation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Collective Resilience

Navigating conception, pregnancy, and loss is challenging for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, who experience stigma due to LGBTQ identity, other identities (e.g., loss), and intersections thereof. We conducted interviews with 17 LGBTQ people with recent pregnancy loss experiences. Taking LGBTQ identity and loss as a starting point, we used an intracategorical intersectional lens to uncover the benefits and challenges of LGBTQ-specific and non-LGBTQ-specific pregnancy and loss-related online spaces. Participants used LGBTQ-specific online spaces to enact individual, interpersonal, and collective resilience. However, those with multiple marginalized identities (e.g., people of color and non-partnered individuals), faced barriers in finding support within LGBTQ-specific spaces compared to those holding privileged identities (e.g., White and married). Non-LGBTQ spaces were beneficial for some informational needs, but not community and emotional needs due to pervasive heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and a perceived need to educate. We conceptualize experiences of exclusion as symbolic annihilation and intersectional invisibility, and discuss clinical implications and design directions.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a mental health website for teenagers

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukru Ercan ◽  
Andrew Kevern ◽  
Leo Kroll
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
The Self ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Screening Questionnaires ◽  
Assessment Questionnaire

Aim and MethodRu-ok.com is a recently developed website that includes a self-assessment questionnaire. The aim of this study was to evaluate the website and compare the self-assessment questionnaire with established screening questionnaires. A total of 105 teenagers from schools completed three paper-based questionnaires and the online ru-ok.com questionnaire.ResultsThe website receives 730 visits a week. Visits to the advice section and stories about mental health and relationships account for 35% of activity. Of the returned questionnaires, 80% were positive about the website. There were modest and expected correlations between the website questionnaire (RU–OK) and the Mood and Feelings (MFQ) and Strength and Difficulties (SDQ) questionnaires.Clinical ImplicationsInternet-based self-assessment is feasible and acceptable to teenagers. Self-assessment of perceived need by teenagers may be a useful tool for tier one professionals, including teachers, general practitioners, school nurses, social workers and learning mentors.

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene G. Fine ◽  
Fern L. Johnson ◽  
M. Sallyanne Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Diversity In The Workplace

This article reports on a study of gender and race issues in the regional office of a federal agency. After setting their own research agenda of salient issues, employees completed a long, closed-ended questionnaire; a smaller sample also responded to ten open-ended questions. The results suggest that men, women, and people of color in the agency do not share a common culture of organizational life; instead, each group organizes its experience in the agency in different ways. The authors suggest that a theoretical perspective in which gender and race are viewed as cultures provides a useful framework for understanding cultural diversity in the workplace and a necessary starting point for managing a diverse workforce.

scholarly journals Information Communication Technologies as Tools to Cope with Stigma: An Exploration of Coping in College-Aged Queer People of Color

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice H. Fadrigon ◽  
Courtney E. Smith ◽  
Chantelle A Roulston ◽  
Juan F. Maestre
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
Societal Stigma

Within the United States, Queer People of Color (QPoC) experience high levels of societal discrimination and oppression as a result of having both a stigmatized racial identity and a stigmatized sexual orientation/gender identity. Despite this, QPoC have been the focus of very few studies, and little is known about how to effectively support this marginalized group. Research shows that QPoC utilize Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to cope with societal stigma, however few studies have addressed exactly what ICTs QPoC are using and how they are using them. This qualitative study explores common themes in the experiences of stigma for QPoC, what ICTs QPoC are using to cope with this stigma, and how they are using these ICTs. The authors conducted 12 semi-structured interviews followed by a thematic analysis. The main ICTs that participants discussed using include: Instagram, Twitter, Discord, Tinder, Grindr, GroupMe, Tumblr, Reddit, Netflix, YouTube, Video Games, and Texting. These tools were primarily used for distracting and escaping from stigma, communicating and connecting with others, seeking QPoC media, exploring one’s identity, seeking a community, and finding emotional support. Participants reported that these ICTs are effective coping mechanisms, however stigma permeates these online spaces as well, making it difficult for QPoC to feel safe from the stigma they face offline. To address this, the authors put forth several suggestions.

scholarly journals The cult structure of the American anti

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Aburime
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Dangerous Behaviors ◽  
Damaging Effects

The online-based group known as antis, which originated around 2016 in the United States, exhibit morality-based, cult-like behavior and perpetuate hate speech and censorship in online spaces. Anti ideology has encouraged harmful, obsessive, and dangerous behaviors among its members, specifically minors and young adults. An analysis of the antifandom movement through political, sociological, and behavioral lenses reveals its damaging effects on women, people of color, minors, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

scholarly journals “The Skin is the Cradle of the Soul”: Didier Anzieu on the Skin-Ego, Boundaries, and Boundlessness

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Werbart
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tactile Contact ◽  
Common Skin ◽  
Skin Ego ◽  
Body Ego ◽  
Psychic Function

Didier Anzieu’s notion of the skin-ego builds on a long psychoanalytic tradition that began with Freud’s idea that the ego is first and foremost a body ego, a projection in the psyche of the surface of the body, or, in other words, the idea that psychic phenomena are always embodied. An interface, a container for the ego, but also its origin: thus did Anzieu conceptualize the skin’s psychic function. The baby’s fantasy of having a common skin with the mother is the concrete starting point for a development that, through the prohibition on touching, leads to the experience of being a separate and individual person. Psychoanalytic work with severe mental disorders makes it necessary to investigate deficiencies in the skin-ego’s containing function before the patient’s psychic contents can be explored. In the psychoanalytic situation, the analyst’s words replace tactile contact and thereby contribute to healing injuries to the skin-ego. The clinical implications of Anzieu’s theoretical model are illustrated by examples from psychoanalyses of children and adults. The close connection between touch, psychic envelopes, and thinking opens a wider perspective on the necessity of setting limits to violence, against both nature and human beings.

First trimester pregnancy loss: Clinical implications of genetic testing

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Massalska ◽  
Janusz Grzegorz Zimowski ◽  
Julia Bijok ◽  
Magdalena Pawelec ◽  
Małgorzata Czubak-Barlik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
First Trimester ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
First Trimester Pregnancy ◽  
Trimester Pregnancy

Thermoanalytical methods applied to medicine

2009 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
pp. 1881-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley D. Glass ◽  
Michael E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Collagen Structure ◽  
Drug Penetration ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Disease States ◽  
Therapeutic Outcomes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Thermal Stability Of ◽  
Insight Into

Thermoanalytical methods have found increasing application in medicine due to the improved sensitivity and usability of the available instrumentation. Studies have identified important findings applied to medicine, including information on the thermal properties of the skin and the effect of insertion into body cavities of implants and prosthetics. These studies have explored the thermal stability of various materials to provide insight into drug penetration in order to design drug delivery systems, which are not only safe but capable of delivering improved and predictable therapeutic outcomes for patients. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has also been applied to the study of disease states such as diabetes, where changes in the collagen structure of the skin which may lead to long-term complications in these patients, can be detected. Although these results may at this stage not have significant clinical implications, they do provide medical researchers with a starting point for future investigations. The application of these techniques has been further extended to examinations of body systems and other disease states. The key for the future will be the ability of these techniques not only to provide information on alterations in these biological systems, but also to determine whether these alterations are clinically relevant.

scholarly journals “I show you my coast…”—a relational study of coastscapes in the North Frisian Wadden Sea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Döring ◽  
Beate Ratter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The North ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mobile Methods

AbstractIn recent years, there has been an upsurge in research on relational approaches in geography and in the study of cultural landscapes. Following these strands of research, the relationality of human beings with their natural environments has been highlighted, emphasising the various ways people engage with their lifeworlds. This development is motivated by the perceived need to analytically expand landscape research towards a more-than-representational point of view, challenging the still prevalent dichotomy of nature and culture. The paper takes these insights as a starting point and provides an insight into a more-than-representational understanding of coastscapes that is combined with a more-than-representational understanding of language. Its aim is threefold: to theoretically engage with a more-than-representational and enlanguaged understanding of coastscapes; to explore the relevance of mobile methods for such an approach; and to empirically illustrate the emotive and relational bonds coastal dwellers form with their littoral environs. To capture the dynamism of a more-than-representational understanding that coastal dwellers develop with their coastscape, walking interviews were conducted in the district of North Frisia (Germany). All interviews were examined following a grounded approach and refined by a linguistic in-depth investigation. The analysis revealed four prevailing interpretative repertoires reconfiguring the boundary between nature and culture. They exhibit what we call a coast-multiple that adds to coastal nature-society-mixes which might be of interest for future coastal management at the German Wadden Sea.

Gloria Anzaldúa: From Borderlands to Nepantla

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Isabel Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Marginal Status ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana feminist, queer, cultural critic, author, and artist who is well-known for her concept of the borderlands, physically referring to the U.S.–Mexico border, but also incorporating psychological aspects to describe the spiritual, sexual, or other boundaries that, although arbitrary and painful, guide one’s identity. Using her experiences as a means to create art and social thought, Anzaldúa calls the process of using struggles resulting from sexism, racism, and homophobia a starting point; she explained how theories of the flesh were born out of this necessity. Often, this process involves creating art or writing poetry, fiction, and theoretical essays that require adopting or crafting new terms and categories to more fully explain the lived experiences of people of color. In her writing, she used autohistorias—a term that describes using biographical stories interspersed across genres of writing—and often switched between English, Spanish, and Náhuatl languages. Noticing that scholars tended to use her theory of the borderlands almost exclusively to discuss the geographic tensions between the United States and Mexico, for example, she adopted the Náhuatl term nepantla to more succinctly describe the spiritual dimensions of experience. Scholars interested in Anzaldúa’s work have observed the importance of acknowledging intersectionality and standpoint theories as central to exploring Chicana feminist thought. While her work connects her to the Chicana/o movement and to the women’s movement, Anzaldúa also discusses how the Chicana/o movement excluded women and the women’s movement excluded voices of women of color. Centering experiences of women of color and bringing marginalized voices to the center highlights Anzaldúa’s strategy for gaining awareness of one’s marginal status, reclaiming one’s identity through this knowledge, making use of everyday and structural acts of resistance, and creating theories of social change. These spaces of in-between are uncomfortable but also provide opportunities for social transformation.

Symbolic annihilation through design: Pregnancy loss in pregnancy-related mobile apps

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-631
Author(s):  
Nazanin Andalibi
Keyword(s):  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Common Complication ◽  
Symbolic Annihilation ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Information Tracking ◽  
Do So

Pregnancy is a significant life event for many. Using mobile apps to manage pregnancies is common. Pregnancy loss is a common complication associated with stigma that impacts one’s wellbeing, relationships, sense of self, and more. While pregnancy loss is important to many experiencing it, it is unclear to what extent pregnancy-related mobile apps account for it and consider associated users’ needs in their designs. We conducted a feature analysis of 166 pregnancy-related apps. We found that their main features focus on information, tracking, reminders, and social contact, and that 72% of these apps do not account for loss, 18% explicitly account for it, and 10% passively do so. We theorize this lack of consideration as symbolic annihilation through design. We argue that such annihilation is partly shaped by intensified mothering ideologies, further stigmatizes pregnancy loss, and perpetuates a normative, linear portrait of the pregnancy experience which is harmful and marginalizing.

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