scholarly journals Rainbow Lanyards: Bisexuality, Queering and the Corporatisation of LGBT Inclusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-368
Author(s):  
Thomas Calvard ◽  
Michelle O’Toole ◽  
Hannah Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Woman Working ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Minority Identities

This article presents the powerful account of Hannah, a woman working in a UK university who identifies as bisexual and queer. Hannah’s voice reflects a younger generation of workers who have come of age with the emergence of queer theory and activism supporting greater LGBT rights. Her narrative illustrates the tensions around developing an inclusive stance towards diverse sexual identities at work. Hannah’s account resonates with critical views of diversity management and inclusion practices, where non-normative minority identities are reduced to corporate categories and initiatives for management by majorities. More specifically, the account presented also covers the complexities and challenges of discussing and disclosing gendered sexualities at work, namely bisexuality, which serves as an illustration of ‘queering’ – a resistance towards understanding identities as fixed, manageable and binary. The article provides insight into how and why sexual identity matters for issues of power and conflict at work.

Sexual Identity

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Forstie
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Sexual identity research within sociology has largely examined the social contexts of sexuality as a central part of how we think about ourselves. While much of this research focuses on the experiences of marginalized people (gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and other identities), critical attention has also been paid to the social construction of heterosexual or straight identities. Theoretical perspectives from fields like queer theory and psychology have informed this thinking, and activism and research specifically from queer theory has significantly influenced how researchers understand sexual identities. Intersections with other identities are also critical to understanding sexual identities, and much forward-thinking work on sexual identities examines gender, race, class, and ability simultaneously. This bibliography outlines research on sexual identity, beginning with key sources like Journals, Edited Volumes, and Online and Popular Sources. The Theoretical Foundations section includes classic works, best for those seeking an introduction to the field. The Studying Identity: Research Methods section addresses how sexual identities might be best studied, as well as ongoing methodological challenges. Also included are sections discussing how sexual identities have been defined, including histories of sexual identities, intersections with other identities and changing identity categories, research on sexual identity and the self, research that examines the relationship between sexual identity and behavior, and works discussing how sexual identities are understood in relationships and religion. Sections addressing collective sexual identities and identities in spaces examine how identities are used in social movements and how sexual identities shape and are shaped by communities. Finally, a section focused on the political economy of sexual identities addresses the relationships between sexualities, nations, economies, and policy. While the bulk of this bibliography focuses on sexual identities within the United States, sources examining sexual identities in a variety of national and transnational contexts are included in a number of sections.

scholarly journals Combating Bisexual Erasure: The Correspondence of Implicit and Explicit Sexual Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teri Ann Kirby ◽  
Sally Merritt ◽  
Sarah Baillie ◽  
Lori Wu Malahy ◽  
Cheryl Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Insight Into

Both heterosexual and gay/lesbian individuals still question and erase bisexual identities. Skeptics contend that people adopt bisexual identities for strategic motivations, such as avoiding the stigma associated with identifying as gay or for attention-seeking purposes. Across two studies, self-identified gay (N = 168), straight (N = 237), and bisexual (N = 231) participants completed a sexual identity Implicit Association Test, a measure that can provide insight into automatic associations and lessen the influence of impression management strategies. All three groups displayed implicit sexual identities that were consistent with their self-ascribed identities. Gay men and lesbians implicitly identified as more gay and less bisexual than bisexual men and women, who in turn identified as less straight and more bisexual than straight men and women. These findings show that self-reported sexual identities converge with implicit identities and have implications for understanding the psychology of sexual orientation.

Queer Perspectives Fuelling Diversity Management Discourse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regine Bendl ◽  
Roswitha Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Management Discourse ◽  
Insight Into

Diversity management discourse shows that theoretical concepts and strategies often neglect issues of ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘sexuality’, and unwittingly reinforce patterns of exclusion in organizational practice. This chapter considers the diversity category ‘sexual orientation’ within a broader theoretical framework, by highlighting the constitutive connectedness between ‘sex’, ‘gender’, and ‘sexuality’. It uses queer theoretical concepts to give insight into the normative intersections of ‘sex’, ‘gender’, and ‘sexuality’ and, thus, heteronormative phenomena in diversity management discourse. Based on an exploration of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their codes of conduct (CoCs) it highlights the interventional and transformative potential of queer theory as an approach to DM discourse.

scholarly journals Combating Bisexual Erasure: The Correspondence of Implicit and Explicit Sexual Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062098091
Author(s):  
Teri A. Kirby ◽  
Sally K. Merritt ◽  
Sarah Baillie ◽  
Lori Wu Malahy ◽  
Cheryl R. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Insight Into

Both straight (i.e., heterosexual) and gay/lesbian individuals still question and erase bisexual identities. Skeptics contend that people adopt bisexual identities for strategic motivations, such as avoiding the stigma associated with identifying as gay, or for attention-seeking purposes. Across two studies, self-identified gay ( N = 168), straight ( N = 237), and bisexual ( N = 231) participants completed a sexual identity Implicit Association Test, a measure that can provide insight into automatic associations and lessen the influence of impression management strategies. All three groups displayed implicit sexual identities that were consistent with their self-ascribed identities. Gay men and lesbians implicitly identified as more gay and less bisexual than bisexual men and women, who in turn identified as less straight and more bisexual than straight men and women. These findings show that self-reported sexual identities converge with implicit identities and have implications for understanding the psychology of sexual orientation.

Inadvertently queer school leadership amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) school leaders

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
Institutional Foundations

Lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) school leaders may understand these sexual identities as essentialist categories and present lived experiences resistant to the identity category-troubling tenets of queer theory, whose application in queer empirical research can nonetheless provide important insights into leaders’ identity, practices and power. In this article, I focus on reconciling this conceptual tension to produce an empirical account of inadvertently queer school leadership in England. The article uses queer theory to re-interpret findings from a study of five LGB school leaders to show that despite perceiving sexual identity in an essentialist way, these LGB school leaders sexually embody inadvertently queer school leadership. They trouble gender norms and conceptualizations of ‘leader’ through non-normative sexual embodiment; suggest queer identities for others; and challenge heteronormativity’s institutional foundations and other processes of normalization.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Colm Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sexual Part ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior

The introduction first sets out some preliminary definitions of sex, sexuality, and gender. It then turns from the sexual part of Sexual Identities to the identity part. A great deal of confusion results from failing to distinguish between identity in the sense of a category with which one identifies (categorial identity) and identity in the sense of a set of patterns that characterize one’s cognition, emotion, and behavior (practical identity). The second section gives a brief summary of this difference. The third and fourth sections sketch the relation of the book to social constructionism and queer theory, on the one hand, and evolutionary-cognitive approaches to sex, sexuality, and gender, on the other. The fifth section outlines the value of literature in not only illustrating, but advancing a research program in sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Finally, the introduction provides an overview of the chapters in this volume.

scholarly journals Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-851
Author(s):  
Peter Geschiere ◽  
Rogers Orock
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Sexual Transgression ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
Anal Penetration ◽  
Sex Practices

AbstractCameroonians recently invented a new word to characterize the state of their country: anusocratie (the rule of the anus). This became central in the moral panic from 2000 onwards over a supposed proliferation of homosexuality. Anusocratie links such same-sex practices to illicit enrichment by the national elites and their involvement with secret associations of Western provenance, such as Freemasonry, Rosicrucians and the Illuminati. This article tries to unravel this conceptual knot of homosexuality, the occult (Freemasonry) and illicit enrichment: first, by historicizing it. Of interest in the Cameroonian case is the fact that a similar link is mentioned in one of the first ethnographies, Günther Tessmann's Die Pangwe. Freemasonry is clearly a colonial imposition on the country, but the link between same-sex practices and enrichment has a longer history. Second, a comparison with similar ideas elsewhere on the continent can also open up wider perspectives. The link with illicit enrichment does not figure in classical conceptions of ‘homosexuality’ as developed in Europe, yet it strongly emerges from examples from all over Africa. Both Achille Mbembe and Joseph Tonda show that this image of the anus – anal penetration – articulates popular concerns about staggering inequalities. Yet, this aspect is ignored in debates about growing ‘homophobia’ in Africa. A confrontation with classical texts from Western queer theory (Bersani, Mieli) can help us discover other layers in African discourses, notably an emphasis on sexual diversity as an answer to homophobia. It can also serve to relativize the linking of sexual practices to sexual identities, which is still seen as self-evident in much queer theory of Western provenance.

scholarly journals IbM KELOMPOK ORGANISASI MAHASISWA UNIVERSITAS LANCANG KUNING DALAM PENGGUNAAN SOFTWARE DESIGN GRAFIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-239
Author(s):  
Monice nice Manice
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Student Organizations ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Design Software ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Positive Step ◽  
Insight Into

Nowadays, in the younger generation, students in particular, there is less and less motivation for entrepreneurship. This is also because many do not have the skills that can be used to support it. Student organizations are a representative of a part of younger generation who have problems of their own. Student organizations have many activities, which requires skill and expertise in the field of graphic design. This activity, Science and Technology for Community is a positive step to expand the horizons and motivate the younger generation, especially students through student organizations in order to foster an entrepreneurial spirit and the spirit to always learn new things and keep up with technology.                             The targets of this Science and Technology for Community activity are students who represent their Student Organizations in Lancang Kuning University will have skill in using graphic design software, namely Adobe Indesign, and insight into the magnitude of the business opportunities in the field of graphic design which can help the Student Organization’s activities.                The methods which are used, such as workshop or training in using graphic design software and discussion to open up horizons for entrepreneurship. Material which is provided, include handout of Basic Training for Adobe Indesign for making posters, brochures and banners, as well as ideas of business opportunities that can be developed by students or student organizations.                Conclusions, outcomes achieved are the participants have basic skills and knowledge in using the software Adobe Indesign for making posters, and the emergence of ideas in entrepreneurship in the field of graphic design from the participants.  

Sexual Identities in the Workplace

2017 ◽  
pp. 188-220
Author(s):  
Robert A. Cleve ◽  
İdil Işık ◽  
Viviane de Castro Pecanha
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Identity Disclosure ◽  
Sexual Identity Disclosure ◽  
Organizational Trauma ◽  
Smooth Transitions ◽  
The U.S

The global progression of human rights advocating for marginalized communities, especially LGBTQ, has seen tremendous change over the past several decades, including the conditions for disclosure of sexual identity in the workplace. The decision-making process of disclosure and the necessity for others to know is key to understanding how best to support and address the potential organizational trauma that may result. Not all disclosure of minority identity is negative and the availability of positive policy development within organizations can assist in smooth transitions toward more equal inclusion and dispel previous heteronormative and heterosexist ideologies. Through increased knowledge about the LGBTQ community and case analysis, a cross cultural lens will be utilized from Brazil, Turkey and the U.S.; prominent sexual identity disclosure perspectives for numerous occupations, as well as recommendations for systemic awareness and change will be offered.

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