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0000-0001-8555-4456
Current Organisations
Queensland University of Technology
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University of New South Wales Centre for Social Research in Health
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University of New South Wales
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Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 28-06-2021
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.1894
Abstract: Discourse on sex work is replete with narratives of risk and danger, predominantly focused on violence and disease. However, the risks instigated by police, maintained by the criminal justice system and sanctioned by the state—criminal laws, licensing laws and targeted policing—receive far less attention. This paper responds to this gap in three ways. First, we examine how stigma manifests in sex workers’ experiences of Australian policing, which act to disincentivise sex workers from accessing criminal legal mechanisms. Second, we illustrate how sex workers are denied victim status as they are seen by law as ‘irresponsible citizens’ and blamed for their experiences of crime. Third, we argue that these factors create conditions in which sex workers must constantly assess risks to access safety and legal redress while structural sex work stigma persists unabated. We conclude that ‘whore stigma’ is entrenched in the criminal legal system and requires a systematic response that necessitates but goes beyond the decriminalisation of sex work.
Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/17416590221111827
Abstract: As dating apps continue to receive pressure from civil society, media and governments to address a range of safety concerns, technology companies have developed and deployed a spate of new safety features. Taken together, these features rely upon increased surveillance and partnerships with both technology start-up companies and law enforcement agencies proposed as responses to sexual harassment and abuse. In this article, we draw on empirical accounts of app use – and popular media reporting – to problematise commonsense assumptions about dating apps, safety, technology, policing and surveillance. Where so-called safety features involve increased surveillance and techno-carceral solutionism, there is potential to make users less safe – particularly for app users who are marginalised or stigmatised on the basis of their race, sexuality, gender, health status, employment or disability. Instead of the impetus to ‘datafy’ consent by documenting evidence of sexual transactions, or to monitor users by sharing data with police, we argue that a more effective approach to safety must extend the notion of ‘consent culture’ to encompass a consent-based approach to collecting, storing, and sharing user data – including seeking consent from users about how and whether their data is sold, monetised or shared with third parties or law enforcement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 30-11-2020
Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Date: 2012
Publisher: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.25916/VNKC-ZN96
Publisher: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.25916/WMXZ-ZJ16
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14614448231164408
Abstract: Sextech is currently experiencing a golden age, promising technological innovation to improve sexual health and well-being. However, the privacy and security vulnerabilities of smart sex toys have been the subject of media attention. Dating apps, menstrual trackers and sex toy companies have paid millions in compensation for non-consensually collecting or sharing intimate data. In this article, we share findings from a research workshop with prospective sextech industry professionals about how they approach data governance. The conversations reveal disconnections between the emancipatory, collective and rights-based possibilities offered by feminist and queer tech cultures, broader public interest in data commons and the technosolutionist narratives of start-up cultures. We conclude that there is a need for collaborations between industry, community and researchers to develop approaches to governance that reorganise, redistribute and decentralise the data economy of sex tech.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/SH17145
Abstract: Rates of drug use remain substantially higher among gay and bisexual men (GBM) and people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The use of drugs to enhance sexual pleasure within cultures of Party and Play creates opportunities to discuss sexual health, mental health, consent and wellbeing. Community organisations with a history of HIV prevention, care, treatment are well-placed to respond. ACON’s (formerly the AIDS Council of New South Wales) multi-dimensional response to ‘chemsex’ includes: direct client services support for in iduals seeking to manage or reduce their use health promotion activities that support peer education partnerships with research institutions to better understand cultures of chemsex and policy submissions that call for drug use to be approached as a health, rather than a criminal, issue. The approach speaks the language of Party and Play subcultures employs culturally relevant terminology and imagery uses content designed, created and delivered by peers and operates within a pleasure-positive, harm-reduction and community-led framework. These interventions have led to increased service uptake, strong community engagement, robust research partnerships and the recognition of GBM as a priority population in relevant strategies.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/20563051221144315
Abstract: This article reports on a thematic content analysis of 486 newsroom posts published between 2016 and 2021 by five prominent digital platforms (Facebook, Tinder, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter). We aimed to understand how these platforms frame and define the issues of harm and safety, and to identify the interventions they publicly report introducing to address these issues. We found that platforms respond to and draw upon external controversies and media panics to selectively construct matters of concern related to safety and harm. They then reactively propose solutions that serve as justification for further investment in and scaling up of automated, data-intensive surveillance and verification technologies. We examine four key themes in the data: locating harm with bad actors and discrete content objects (Theme 1), framing surveillance and policing as solutions to harm (Theme 2), policing “borderline” content through suppression strategies (Theme 3), and performing ersity and inclusion (Theme 4).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Location: Australia
Location: Australia
Location: Australia
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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