scholarly journals Policing Visible Sexual/Gender Diversity as a Program of Governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Police Interactions

Using interview data on LGBT young people’s policing experiences, I argue policing and security works as a program of government (Dean 1999; Foucault 1991; Rose 1999) that constrains the visibilities of diverse sexuality and gender in public spaces. While young people narrated police actions as discriminatory, the interactions were complex and multi-faceted with police and security working to subtly constrain the public visibilities of ‘queerness’. Same sex affection, for instance, was visibly yet unverifiably (Mason 2002) regulated by police as a method of governing the boundaries of proper gender and sexuality in public. The paper concludes by noting how the visibility of police interactions with LGBT young people demonstrates to the public that public spaces are, and should remain, heterosexual spaces.

scholarly journals Gênero e sexualidade: (Ou) Posições sobre a educação sexual

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Gabriel DVOSKIN ◽  
Anelise Gregis ESTIVALET
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Regional Problem ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

RESUMONos últimos anos, diferentes países como Brasil e Argentina têm incluído temas relacionados à sexualidade como conteúdo curricular, medida que abriu uma série de debates na agenda pública acerca do papel que deve cumprir a instituição escolar no tratamento de questões relacionadas com a sexualidade e o gênero. Esta problemática regional tem se manifestado de forma eloquente e a polêmica sobre este tema pôs em circulação expressões como “ideologia de gênero”, que marcam uma clara resistência a este tipo de medida. Assim, analisaremos os discursos que têm circulado sobre a educação sexual e focalizaremos nosso interesse, especificamente, nas controvérsias geradas em relação às questões de gênero. A análise dos esquemas argumentativos que apresentam esses discursos nos permitirá, por um lado, analisar as polêmicas surgidas em torno das noções de gênero na educação sexual e, por outro, comparar as regularidades e rupturas que aparecem nos dois países.Gênero. Sexualidade. Argumentação. Gender and sexuality: (or) positions about sex educationABSTRACTIn recent years, different countries such as Brazil and Argentina have included topics related to sexuality as a curricular content. This process has opened a series of debates on the public agenda about the role that the school institution should fulfill regarding matters related to sexuality and gender. This regional problem has manifested itself eloquently and, the controversy on this topic has put out expressions like “gender ideology”, that mark a clear resistance to this process. Thus, we will analyze the discourses that have been circulating about sex education and focus our interest, specifically, on the controversies generated in relation to gender issues. The analysis of the argumentative schemes that these speeches present will allow us, on the one hand, to analyze the controversies arising around the notions of gender in sexual education and, on the other hand, to compare the regularities and ruptures that appear in both countries.Gender. Sexuality. Argumentation. Género y sexualidad: (o) Posiciones sobre educación sexualRESUMEN En los últimos años, diferentes países como Brasil y Argentina han incluido temas relacionados con la sexualidad como contenido curricular, una medida que abrió una serie de debates en la agenda pública sobre el papel que debe desempeñar la institución escolar en el tratamiento de cuestiones relacionadas con la sexualidad y el género. Esta problemática regional se ha manifestado de manera elocuente y la controversia sobre este tema ha puesto en circulación expresiones como "ideología de género", que marcan una clara resistencia a este tipo de medida. Por lo tanto, analizaremos los discursos que han estado circulando sobre la educación sexual y enfocaremos nuestro interés, específicamente, en las controversias generadas en relación con los temas de género. El análisis de los esquemas argumentativos que presentan estos discursos nos permitirá, por un lado, analizar las controversias que surgieron en torno a las nociones de género en la educación sexual y, por otro, comparar las regularidades y rupturas que aparecen en ambos países.Género. Sexualidad. Argumentación. Genere e sessualità: (o) Posizioni sull'educazione sessualeSINTESE Negli ultimi anni, diversi paesi come il Brasile e l'Argentina hanno incluso questioni legate alla sessualità come contenuto curricolare, una misura che ha aperto una serie di dibattiti sull'agenda pubblica sul ruolo che l'istituzione scolastica dovrebbe svolgere nel trattare le questioni relative a Sessualità e genere. Questo problema regionale si è manifestato eloquentemente e la controversia su questo tema ha messo in circolazione espressioni come "ideologia di genere", che segnano una chiara resistenza a questo tipo di misura. Pertanto, analizzeremo i discorsi circolanti sull'educazione sessuale e focalizzeremo il nostro interesse, in particolare, sulle controversie generate in relazione alle questioni di genere. L'analisi degli schemi argomentativi presentati da questi discorsi ci permetterà, da un lato, di analizzare le controversie sorte intorno alle nozioni di genere nell'educazione sessuale e, dall'altro, di confrontare le regolarità e le rotture che compaiono in entrambi i paesi.Genere. La sessualità. Argomentazione.

Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Islam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyn Graham Davies
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Sex Positive

The terms LGBT and Islam mentioned together in a sentence rarely evoke positive connotations. Rather, LGBT and Islam are often considered inherently incompatible. While there is little evidence on which an inherent incompatibility can be claimed, persecution of LGBT people across the globe is routinely carried out in the name of Islam. Yet at its heart, Islam can be a powerful force acknowledging sexual and gender diversity. Of all the world’s great religions, Islam is arguably the most sex positive of all. Three main avenues provide understanding of sexuality and gender in Islam. First is the Qur’an, or the Islamic holy book. Second is hadith, which are the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Third are fatwah, which are the rulings of religious leaders. Certainly, most of this literature positions sexuality as properly confined to heterosexual marriage between a gender normative woman and a gender normative man. However, it is often difficult to distill such an imperative from cultural aspects that inflect all readings of religious scripture. In other words, it is often not Islam per se that prohibits same-sex sexuality and gender diversity but rather cultural interpretations of religious aspects. Moreover, it is not uncommon for fatwah to contradict each other, and thus which fatwah are followed comes down to which imam or religious leader espouses it. A further difficulty with discussing sexuality and gender vis-à-vis Islam, or indeed any religion, is that terms such as sexuality and gender are inherently modern and were developed long after understandings of religion were culturally and politically enshrined. As such, particular understandings of the categories of woman and man within scripture exist in a state where interrogation is not possible. If Muhammad were alive today, he would have linguistic tools available to him to talk about sexuality and gender in a much more nuanced way. To thus discuss LGBT subject positions within Islam, given that Islam was largely developed before words like gender and sexuality were invented, is difficult. Nevertheless, such discussion is warranted and fruitful and shows that while many interpretations of Islam seek to vilify LGBT, many aspects of Islam and its practice are inclusive of sexual and gender diversity.

scholarly journals “Ties that bind”

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lexi Webster
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Few in the humanities and social sciences will doubt the long-standing historical conflation of sex, sexuality and gender both within and without academia. Despite research and socio-political movements aiming for the contrary, it continues even now. This paper discusses the ongoing conflation between these interrelated but independent social categories in current linguistic research, including how it can serve to reflect and reinforce socio-political antagonism outside of academia. I propose two potential directions of travel: (1) welcoming ideological pluralism between scholars on the primacy of either sex, gender or sexuality; and (2) horizontally disaggregating the three categories. I argue that engaging with both strategies in tandem serves to benefit researchers, participants and the public. The former encourages trust in academic research during a time wherein that trust is waning. The latter enables an analytical distinction between sex, gender, and sexuality in linguistic research, whilst continuing to acknowledge their interrelatedness. Implemented together, they will allow researchers to embed research in the 21st century, which entails pluralistic and competing socio-political activism between equally deserving groups.

‘It’s Not Like We’re Going to Jump Them’: How Transgressing Heteronormativity Shapes Police Interactions with LGBT Young People

Youth Justice ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Police Interactions

This paper explores how visibly transgressing heteronormativity shapes police interactions with LGBT young people. While research provides evidence about how sexually and gender diverse bodies can be abused in schools, policing is overlooked. Interviews with 35 LGBT young people demonstrate how bodies transgressing heteronormativity (that is, non-heteronormative bodies) mediate their policing experiences in Queensland, Australia. Drawing on Foucault, Butler, and others, this article suggests police interactions and use of discretion with LGBT young people was informed by non-heteronormative bodies discursively performing queerness in ways read by police. The article concludes noting tensions produced for youthful LGBT bodies in public spaces.

scholarly journals ‘You're not sure that you are gay yet’: The perpetuation of the ‘phase’ in the lives of young disabled LGBT + people

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Toft ◽  
Anita Franklin ◽  
Emma Langley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Authentic Identity ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity Shifts

Contemporary discourse on sexuality presents a picture of fluidity and malleability, with research continuing to frame sexuality as negotiable, within certain parameters and social structures. Such investigation is fraught with difficulties, due in part to the fact that as one explores how identity shifts, language terms such as ‘phase’ emerge conjuring images of a definitive path towards an end-goal, as young people battle through a period of confusion and emerge at their true or authentic identity. Seeing sexuality and gender identity as a phase can delegitimise and prevent access to support, which is not offered due to the misconception that it is not relevant and that one can grow out of being LGBT+. This article explores the lives of disabled LGBT + young people from their perspective, using their experiences and stories to explore their identities and examine how this links to the misconception of their sexuality and gender as a phase. Taking inspiration from the work of scholars exploring sexual and gender identity, and sexual storytelling; the article is framed by intersectionality which allows for a detailed analysis of how identities interact and inform, when used as an analytic tool. The article calls for a more nuanced understanding of sexuality and gender in the lives of disabled LGBT + young people, which will help to reduce inequality and exclusion.

Sexual and Reproductive Justice for LGBTQI Youth in Policy Responses Across Eastern and Southern Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Lynch ◽  
Finn Reygan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
And Gender

Both significant progress and profound backlash have occurred in the inclusion of sexual and gender diversity across eastern and southern Africa. This includes the decriminalization of homosexuality in Mozambique in 2015 and the introduction of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (later annulled) in Uganda in the preceding year. Simultaneously there is increased pressure on Ministries of Education to engage more robustly with sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education in education systems across the region. Emerging regional research points to a narrow, heteronormative focus in comprehensive sexuality education; access barriers to sexual and reproductive health services; and pervasive school-related gender-based violence, including homophobic and transphobic violence. Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a key role in developing best practice in advancing the SRHR of sexual and gender minority youth and are therefore a valuable resource for government SRHR policies and programmatic responses. The regional SRHR education policy landscape is underpinned by two policy narratives: that of young people’s SRHR as a public health concern and a focus on young people’s human rights. These policy narratives not only underpin SRHR policy in the region but also in many instances are drawn on in CSO advocacy when positioning the SRHR of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) young people as an important policy concern. These two dominant policy narratives, however, have a narrow focus on young people’s risks and vulnerabilities, may inadvertently perpetuate stigma and marginalization of LGBTQI youth, and may limit youth voice and agency. These narratives also do not sufficiently engage local sociocultural and structural conditions that drive negative SRHR outcomes for young people in the region. Research, advocacy, and policy development toward the full realization of the SRHR of sexual and gender minority youth can address some of the limitations of health and rights-based policy narratives by drawing on a sexual and reproductive justice framework. Such a framework expands the policy focus on health risks and individual rights to include engagement with sociocultural and structural constraints on young people’s ability to exercise their rights. A sexual and reproductive justice framework provides a more robust toolkit when working toward full inclusion of sexual and gender diversity in regional school-based SRHR policy and programs.

scholarly journals Diversity and safety on campus @ Western: Heterosexism and cissexism in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Asquith ◽  
Tania Ferfolia ◽  
Brooke Brady ◽  
Benjamin Hanckel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Discrimination, harassment and violence can vitiate staff and students’ experiences of education and work. Although there is increasing knowledge about these experiences in primary and secondary education, very little is known about them in higher education. This paper draws from landmark research that examines the interpersonal, educational and socio-cultural perspectives that prevail about sexuality and gender diversity on an Australian university campus. In this paper we focus on three aspects of the broader research findings: the heterosexism and cissexism experienced by sexuality and gender diverse students and staff at the university; their actions and responses to these experiences; and the impact of these experiences on victims. The research demonstrates that although the university is generally safe, sexuality and gender diverse students and staff experience heterosexist and cissexist discrimination, which can have negative ramifications on their workplace and learning experiences.

Promoting the dignity and worth of all people: The privilege of social work

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 758-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Henrickson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
International Social

The Dame Eileen Younghusband Lecture is presented every two years at the joint world conferences of international social work. In 2016 it was presented in Seoul and was based on the conference theme ‘promoting the dignity and worth of people’. The lecture includes a review of heroes, legal, political and social successes, and challenges for sexual and gender minorities around the world. It challenges the binary of gender and sexuality. The privilege of social work is to choose either to challenge or to reproduce oppression based on sexuality and gender, and protect the dignity and worth of all peoples.

Thinking about ethnicity and gender diversity in children and young people

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastasja M de Graaf ◽  
Ilham I Manjra ◽  
Anna Hames ◽  
Claudia Zitz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ethnicity Data

Background: Little is known about how social and cultural variants interact with gender identity development. This article aims to identify the ethnicities of children and young people referred to the United Kingdom’s national Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), and compare the ethnicity data with the UK child population and referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Methods: GIDS referrals made between April 2012 and April 2015 for children and young people were retrieved. Ethnicity data were obtained by the ‘16 + 1’ ethnicity list. Chi-square and t-tests were performed on the demographics. Results: Less than 10% of the 995 referrals at GIDS were from Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups – an underrepresentation as compared with both the national population and CAMHS figures. No significant differences in ethnic representation were found between the demographic birth-assigned sexes, across age groups, or year of referral. Conclusions: Hypotheses proposed for this underrepresentation take into account both the potential barriers to accessing services and the possibility of cross-cultural variations in the conceptualisations of gender, gender roles and gender diversity. Ethnicity, culture and religion, and their overlapping relationship with gender need further exploration.

scholarly journals “It's Like Mixing Paint”: Songwriting Gender Diversity and Alternative Gender Cultures with Young People as an ‘After-queer’ Methodology

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elly Scrine
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Alternative Gender ◽  
Perfect World

This paper conceptualises songwriting as an ‘after-queer’ approach for exploring notions of gender and sexuality with young people. The article draws on songs created by seven groups of young people in music-based workshops which took place in schools with participants aged between 14–17. During these workshops, songwriting was used to explore the participants' imaginings of what gender might look like in their "perfect world". 'After-queer' scholarship is introduced and referred to throughout the paper as it relates to queer theory and research with young people, particularly focusing on discourses of risk and vulnerability that emerge across these fields. The paper highlights the value of creative and arts-based methodologies in queer research, through which expansion and questions of possibility, alternative, and identity can be raised and responded to. 'After queer' is offered as a useful lens for critical analysis, particularly in light of complex questions related to the promotion of "diversity" that emerged through the findings.

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