#Lesbian research

[artinvain]

maybe let’s stop comparing lgbt+ to animals, I really don’t care anymore if it’s about research. as sentient as animals are, they are not the same as humans and as a lesbian and nb I would like to stop being compared to fucking whales to justify my perfectly valid and very normal identities. if you want to study us, stop being cocks and ask fucking questions about us TO US.

[floral-ashes]

For Nature’s new series on sex/gender, I wrote with the amazing Shari Brightly-Brown and G Nic Rider about gender modality, the limits of the cis/trans binary, and how to study gender more respectfully and accurately.

Gender modality is a term I coined in 2019 that has picked up a lot of steam in the last few years. It refers to the relationship between someone’s gender identity and gender assigned at birth. It’s a lot like ‘sexual orientation’ but for trans/cis instead of gay/straight.

The term helps us be more accurate and more respectful when describing the experiences of trans people, and opens up space beyond the trans/cis binary.

For instance, it’s often more accurate to say that discrimination against trans people is based on gender modality than based on gender identity. After all, a trans woman has the same gender identity as a cis woman, so that’s not the salient point.

There are also many people who don’t neatly fall in the trans/cis binary, and gender modality helps us talk about that. Non-binary people who don’t identify as cis or trans, gender questioning folks, detrans folks, people with culturally-specific identities, etc.

Our world is incredibly rich with experiences and our language should reflect that. As we say in the paper, the first step in science shouldn’t be assuming, it should be to engage in the world in all its magnificent complexity.

I am grateful to our editor for the opportunity to publish in such a prestigious journal with such amazing coauthors. I hope you all enjoy the read!

For those who prefer to listen, here’s an audio version.

[elleselanguitsansfin]

it's hailing today and the gloom outside is casting peculiar shadows around my room...

[froggosalad]

Happy Hanukkah from the tight knit family :]

[emolionsrawr]

gerrard: buckley, what in the devils name are you doing?

buck, with a clipboard in hand: well, gerrard, i was going over everything in the firehouse and i noticed some things

gerrard: what is it buckley?

buck: well, you sir are in violation of the sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression discrimination act, over the past week i've noticed you refer to henretta wilson with slurs, very offensive slurs, as well as myself, due to this myself and mrs wilson have made note of each time you've done this, and reported it to our head HR representative, this here *hands gerrard a piece of paper* is a letter from the chief, requesting your presence for a meeting about your retirement

gerrard: you fucking fa-

bobby: i'd be careful if i was you gerrard, and get out of MY firehouse

gerrard: *screws up the paper and leaves*

chimney: see i told you all we needed to do was set clipboard buck on his ass

hen: look i know i'm a lesbian, but buck has never looked so good before

buck: i am the defender of lesbians!!

[viktorpartner]

Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

[yourlocalabomination]

*fingers aggressively gripping my thighs* Yea I think about that one sleazeball a normal amount.

[trracstudy]

Hi there! My name is Bri Pastro and I’m a queer doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Fordham University. I’m a part of a research team collaborating with University of Maine to investigate mental health in rural vs. urban teenagers! 

Our study is regarding risk & resilience related to mental health in adolescents. We’re particularly interested in online and interpersonal interactions and how these factor into mental health. Participating includes completing a 25 minute online survey.

In order to participate in this study participants must: Be 15-18 years old, be comfortable reading and speaking English, and live in a rural community OR an urban community in the United States.

If you are interested in participating in the study, please click on the link below. Participants who complete the study will be entered into a raffle to win one of 20, $25 Amazon gift cards. 

If you know someone who may be interested, please send them this link!

Thank you for helping me with my doctoral research! Participation is completely voluntary, and participants may end the study at any time. All data is confidential. This study was approved by the Fordham University and University of Maine Institutional Review Boards.

We hope that this research helps us better understand experiences for adolescents across the United States. Please reach out to us at trracstudy@gmail.com with any questions. We are closing recruitment at the end of the month and are putting one last push to get more participants! Please repost as you can :)

[butchpeace]

Summary

Transgender men on hormone therapy have a high incidence of PFD (94.1%) and experience a greater occurrence of urinary symptoms (86.7%). Mean duration of hormone therapy in participants was 2.57 years. Most participants reported symptoms related to bladder storage (69.1%), whereas 16 (23.5%) participants had symptoms of UI, with MUI being the most common type (11.7%). Only 4 out of 102 participants reported no PFD symptoms of any kind.

[rosyborealis]

There’s this phenomenon that isn’t quite queerbaiting, and therefore shouldn’t be called that in my opinion, but there isn’t a specific word for it as far as I know. Basically the phenomenon where a couple isn’t explicitly shown to be a couple on screen (usually due to corporate homophobia), but is definitely intended by the creators to be a couple.

Edit: The two phrases that have been brought up in the comments are queer-coding and Herero-baiting. I’m partial to the latter.

[touchlikethesun]

and if i said fem!bingliushen? what would you do then? someone help me i can’t get it out of my head it’s been 30 minutes

[genderqueerdykes]

"Honing in on bisexuality specifically, in the UK the LGBT+ charity Stonewall published its Bi Report in 2020 to summarize their recent findings on the experience of thousands of people who are bi in Britain. They found that 80 of bisexual people in their sample were not out to all of their family members, and 64 percent were not out to their friends. This meant that bi people were less than half as likely to be out as gay or lesbian people in the study.

Research conducted in the US by the Pew Research Center in 2019 found similar results, with 74 percent of bisexual people in their sample being closeted to most or all of the important people in their lives, compared to the 29 percent of lesbians and the 23 percent of gay men. Additionally, in 2013 Pew had found big differences between men and women. About a third of bisexual women said they had told the most important people in their lives that they were bisexual, but only 12 percent of bi men had done the same."

-- "Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality." - Dr. Julia Shaw.

[from-beyond]

Do you identify as some variation of queer woman? Are you a fan of Bruce Springsteen?

If the answer to both of those questions was yes, please take a few minutes to fill out this survey:

Your answers will not be published anywhere, this is simply for a graduate class project using uses and gratifications theory.

You do not need to answer every question, only those that inspire an answer.

Reblogs are massively appreciated, especially if you run a Springsteen related blog. I need to collect answers from at least 10 participants in order to move forward with this project. Feel free to share it with your friends.

[green-planets]

If you're getting into Starlight Express expecting it to be about lesbian trains, prepare to be disappointed

[blackbackedjackal]

:)

[wildflowercryptid]

i don't feel like really coloring this rn so here are some rough sketches of my older tealmask designs! kieran is a mask maker & competitive battler while florian is paldea's new pokémon professor, (he specializes in pokémon mythology & terastallization.)