Geographies of sexualities mainly focusses on the lived experiences and sexual identity negotiations of gay men and lesbian women in a society based upon binary divisions of sex, gender, and sexualities. This review article wants to consider a more theoretically informed relational approach to understand the creation and sustaining of the binary system, and the everyday lived experience of bisexuals. This article will review contemporary studies on queer space and studies on the intersections of bisexual theory and queer theory. Drawing inspiration from queer theory, speech act theory, and relational geographies, I propose a focus on encounters, language, embodied practices, and embodied experiences to understand the lives of sexual minorities, and bisexuals in particular. While heteronormativity and monosexuality are important factors (or contexts) in the everyday lived experience, they are not all determining for the everyday experiences of people who desire more-than-one gender.
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Religions 2018
(https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9020053)
This paper is the product of in-depth interviews with 20 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) people who identify, or formerly identified, as members of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian (PCC) churches. Interviewees typic...
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 2016
(https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.3511)
‘Homophobia’ is shorthand for stigmatising attitudes and practices towards people who demonstrate sexual diversity. In this article, we reflect on how African Christian faith may become redemptive rather than violent in the context of lesbian, gay, b...
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Social Sciences 2016
(https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci5030034)
Gender and sexuality norms, conscribed under cis/heteropatriarchy, have established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, agender/asexual, gender creative,...
Social Sciences 2015
(https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci4030838)
While LGBT studies have been problematizing normative categories of sexuality primarily in Western cultures, the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in non-Western societies remains understudied. This study examines t...
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Social Sciences 2015
(https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci4040925)
The rural context at times is characterized by heteronormativity and conservatism. For individuals who identify as a sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer), the rural context may pose particular challenges to the developme...
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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación 2015
(https://doi.org/10.15517/aie.v15i2.18535)
This paper aims to analyze teachers’ discourses on young lesbians in the Portuguese schools. To that end, we carried out semi-structured interviews with 24 Portuguese teachers of middle and secondary schools. After having analyzed the retrieved dat...
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UNNES International Conference on ELTLT 2017
(https://doi.org/10.15294/eltlt.v0i0.97)
The aim of the paper is to analyze Mitsuyo Kakuta‘s translated novel entitled Woman on the Other Shore. The
focus of analysis is on the friendship, work, and shore in the life of the three Japanese females. Since the focus of
analysis is on the femal...
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 2015
(https://doi.org/10.5842/46-0-671)
The aim of this article is to investigate T-shirts as semiotic tools of the politics of visibility, showing which role these sartorial artefacts may play in competing struggles for recognition in which gender and sexuality interse...
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Social Media + Society 2016
(https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116672485)
Social media not only create new opportunities but also pose new challenges for the ways people navigate their online selves. As noted by boyd, social media are characterized by unique dynamics such as collapsed contexts, implying that one’s distinct...
Social Media + Society 2016
(https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116641975)
This article investigates the relationship between social media platforms and the production and dissemination of selfies in light of its implications for the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Applying an Actor Ne...
