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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"queer women"”.
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Gender roles, homophobia, and the closet: Experiences of queer women
… the closet are related. A focus group of seven women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and queer was conducted. The findings suggest that gender roles do limit the way women view themselves, that religion is the largest contributor to internalized homophobia, and that gender …
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Raras al mando/queer women command: Alternative Spanish-speaking Caribbean femininities on the global stage
… documents current artistic projects led by queer Caribbean women performers who disrupt and reframe traditional Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican femininities through performance and media. Through words, images and sounds I narrate the multimedia tales and epiphanic moments that served as …
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A closet full of dresses: Intersections of femininity and sexuality among queer women in Panhellenic sororities
… Kahn, 2012). By exploring the experiences of queer women in Panhellenic sororities and using a grounded theory approach to understand how they negotiate expectations of femininity, the current study suggests preliminary theoretical relations in an otherwise understudied area. The findings …
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Revolutionships: Experiences of Queer Women of Color Maintaining Romantic Relationships while Engaging in Contemporary Movements for Liberation
<p>Queer women of color (QWOC) organizing in resistance to the increasingly hostile contemporary political context of the United States of America are at immediate risk for threats to survival. Nevertheless, some maintain romantic relationships that fall outside of the hegemonic frameworks of …
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Beyond the binary: Development of the gender expression multidimensional inventory for queer women and queer assigned female at birth individuals
… to create an inventory of gender expression for queer women and QAFAB (queer assigned female at birth) individuals that can assess this construct beyond a binary, masculine and feminine, presentation. The literature provides evidence that gender expression is experienced beyond our typical …
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Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019
… Between Us Girls</em> charts the diffusion of queer theory outside of the academy, using convergence theory to examine communication technologies like periodicals and the Web to argue for a conception of queer theory that includes discourse between queer women about queerness. In making this …
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Sexual Health Decision-Making and Service Utilisation among Kenyan Queer Womxn and Trans Men
Background Queer women and trans men are a neglected populations regarding sexual health status, education, and service provision globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Little is known about their sexual health risk behaviour. In Kenya, the Penal Code criminalises consensual …
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Rivals and Relationships: A Comparison of Queer and Straight Women's Mating Competition
Rivals and Relationships: A Comparison of Queer and Straight Women's Mating Competition Karla Kenny, Western University, London, ON Maryanne L. Fisher, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS Considerable research on dating competition has focused on heterosexual (“straight”) women and the strategies …
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Women’s queer identities in French literature at the turn of the nineteenth century
… the literary lives and creative output of four queer women living and writing in France at the fin de siècle – Rachilde, Liane de Pougy, Natalie Clifford Barney and Armen Ohanian. Spanning the period from 1884 through to 1931, this thesis will examine distinct expressions of queerness in the …
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Saints in Space and the Queer Fantastic
… particular attention to relationships between queer women, to the imaginative possibilities of outer-space and the ocean, and mapping the way to a hopeful future</p>
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Home
… out in the first place. Possessing the voices of queer, Black women, I display one possible outlook on the queer experience. “Home” broadens the narrative of young Black girls lived realities in America. “Home” depicts the realities of what it means to be young, Black, queer women in a world …
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Getting Ready and Getting Unready: How Queer College Women Navigate Their Casual Sexual Experiences
The purpose of this study is to explore how queer women, or people that identify with the label ‘woman’, navigate their casual sexual experiences while attending college or university. Previous studies acknowledge that, while college campuses are arenas for sexual experimentation and identity …
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(Un)Exceptional: Representations of the Marginalisation of Black Female Queer Desire in Chinelo Okparanta's “Under the Udala Trees” and Leona Beasley's “Something Better Than Home”
… the representations of Black same-sex desiring women, specifically in the contexts of the United States of America and Nigeria. The primary aim of this study is to explore and critique the notion of U.S. sexual exceptionalism and homonormativity as theorised by Jasbir Puar's Terrorist …
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Viral visions : art, activism, and epidemiology in the global AIDS pandemic
… activists, and critics--many of whom were queer, women, and people of color--as they formed communities in which the virus generated local, national, and global discourses and practices of cultural activism. Structured around four historical case-studies in and across Toronto, London, Cape …
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Do You Listen to Girl in Red? A Thematic Analysis of Queer Symbolism on TikTok
This thesis investigates how queer women on the social networking site (SNS) TikTok are expressing their cultural identity and building community. Previous research has shown that self-expression and self-presentation are important parts of defining one's identity and building community for queer …
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in response to continuous misogynoir, colorism, and heteronormativity that …
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Gender-based public harassment: An intersectional approach to exploring frequency and effects of harassment experiences
… the self-reported frequency of 369 undergraduate women’s past year public harassment experiences with attention to an intersectional feminist framework. Employing an exploratory measure created specifically for the study, two dimensions of public harassment were examined: uninvited …
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Claiming Identity through Space: LGBTQ+ Community Building via Commercial Development in West Hollywood and Palm Springs
Examining the relationship between queer identity and urban space, this thesis focuses on LGBT+ commercial real estate and its role in community building. Through the cities of West Hollywood and Palm Springs in California, it explores historic, contemporary, and forward-looking narratives of …
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Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four
<p>On an evening in 2006 a group of black queer women and gender non-conforming people, traveled from Newark, New Jersey, to New York’s Greenwich Village for a night out. When Dwayne Buckle, an African-American man selling DVDs on the street, attempted to flirt with one of them, they told him that …
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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany
… with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent in Germany with Berlin as my main study site.</p> <p>These people embody what is considered to be an oxymoron: being queer yet also Turkish, being a lesbian yet having a Muslim background, being of immigrant origin …
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