(Image courtesy of The Keep Calm-o-Matic) I’m starting a little investigation into the development of ‘post-gay’ identity. And I mean this not at all in the sense of ‘ex-gay Christians’ but instead in the way LGBTQ youth are claiming post-gay as an identity that signals sexual fluidity and doing away with labels (as explored in Edmund Coleman-Fountain’sContinue reading “Foucault on ‘coming out’”
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Contrasting identity perspectives and Facebook’s new gender options
(My uni!) It’s taken a while to get settled in (such as being an Internet studies researcher without home Internet, yargh!) but I think I’ve finally got my bearings here in Australia so it’s time for a blog post. Just to bring you up to speed, I’m doing a PhD in Media and Communications withContinue reading “Contrasting identity perspectives and Facebook’s new gender options”
If it tweets like a dog…
(Cartoon by Peter Steiner courtesy of Wikipedia) Ever since I began talking about studying the Internet, I’ve had people quoting that phrase to me: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” They quote it when they complain about spam from India; they quote it when remembering remarkable episodes of “To Catch a Predator“; theyContinue reading “If it tweets like a dog…”
Stefanie Duguay 