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Centring the voices of disabled LGBT+ young people in research: ethical and methodological considerations
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Identifying as young, disabled and bisexual within evangelical Christianity: Abigail's story
Full text linkHistorically, society has desexualised disabled people and has actively restricted their access to sex and relationship information, particularly in terms of LGBT+identities. Research has further suggested that when such information is presented, it is often heteronormative and exclusionary. There has been little research exploring young disabled LGBT+ experiences, and the voices of this population are not being heard. Research exploring the lives and identities of young disabled bisexual individuals with religious belief is even more limited. This chapter focuses upon the experiences of Abigail, a disabled 18-year-old bisexual transgender woman who was brought up in an Evangelical Christian Church in the UK. We suggest that although the Church accepted her disability, her gender transition and bisexuality were seen as being out of line with the Church's teachings, resulting in the priest and congregation working to physically expel or exorcise her sexuality through prayer. The chapter explores how Abigail negotiated her identity against such a backdrop and how she continued to live as what she called her 'authentic self'. Her story shows an individualisation of faith, rooted in traditional Christian practices and traditions. Abigail received little support and faced discrimination and misunderstanding in relation to both her disability and sexuality
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Towards expansive and inclusive relationship and sex education: young disabled LGBT+ people's ideas for change
Full text linkRelationship and sex education (RSE) in the UK continues to be overshadowed by the ideology of Section 28 (Local Government Act). Although repealed 18 years ago, the act has created an atmosphere of uncertainty and confusion regarding what is included in RSE. Equating teaching with promotion has legitimised phobia based upon sexuality and gender identity, mainly through the absence of discussion regarding LGBT+. LGBT+ identities are positioned as non-normative, as they are erased within a heteronormative education system. Simultaneously, disabled young people are often excluded from RSE due to albeism which denies disabled people sexuality or gender identities. This area of education seen as either not required, or not delivered in a way which is accessible and meaningful to the lives of disabled young people. This chapter foregrounds the experiences of a group of young disabled LGBT+ people who were in education. It explores their experiences in relation to RSE and presents their thoughts upon how education can become inclusive, and why such inclusion is vital to their wellbeing. We propose an inclusive whole school approach including disabled LGBT+ lives and histories in order to affirm identities, whilst ensuring RSE is accessible and meets the needs of disabled and neuro-diverse people. Including disabled and/or LGBT+ lives within all subjects across the curriculum resists heteronormativity and disabilism and normalises disabled LGBT+ lives in line with wider society. We call for expansive and inclusive education, as this leads to equality rather than mere acceptance, and can lead to improvements and change in educational cultures, systems, structures and policies, and hopefully wider societal attitudes
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Negotiating sexuality and spirituality: the lived experiences of bisexual persons
Full text linkBisexuality challenges binary conceptions of sexuality, and therefore 'doing' bisexuality within an organisation such as the Christian Church is often challenging. This chapter utilises data from a British mixed-methods study that explored how identities were managed in relation to being Christian and bisexual. The research found that the participants repackaged and reimagined their faith and, to a lesser extent re-imagine their sexuality. Bisexual Christians used creative agency in their intimate lives and found support from personal communities and friendships. This chapter attempts to move from exploring sexuality and faith separately, towards an intersectional approach to the experiences of the participants. Although their religious and sexual lives are considered, the chapter aims to explore how the experiences of the participants intertwine and how the identities speak to, and inform each other. As a result, the chapter takes the original research as a starting point and explores how we might see the participants as bisexual Christians rather than bisexuals who happen to be Christian (and vice-versa). The stories and the experiences of the participants suggest a bisexual Christianity rooted in Christianity morality and individualism
Rapid cosmetic improvements in nail psoriasis patients treated with K101-03
No full textBackground Nail psoriasis can cause embarrassment and stigmatization. A therapy that produces rapid cosmetic improvements could therefore make a difference to patients. Objectives Data from an 8‐week open-label multicenter study were analyzed to assess the efficacy of K101-03, a Nail psoriasis containing propylene glycol, glycerol, urea and lactic acid, in adult patients with nail psoriasis. Patients and Methods Patients (n=35) applied K101-03 to their affected nails once daily for 8 weeks. They rated the overall appearance of a selected nail (the “target” nail) versus baseline on a 4‐point scale after 1, 2, 4 and 8 weeks of treatment. At the same time points, they also assessed whether, compared to baseline, the target nail was less thickened, less discolored, less brittle and softer. Results After 8 weeks of K101‐03 treatment, the overall appearance of the target nail was improved in 94.1% of patients (95% confidence interval [CI] 86.2–100). After 1 week of treatment, 70.6% of patients (95% CI 55.3–85.9) reported an overall improvement in the target nail and 52.9% of them reported that their target nail was less discolored. Three‐quarters of patients reported softening of their target nail after 8 weeks of treatment. Conclusion In summary, K101-03 rapidly improved the appearance and other physical attributes of nails affected by psoriasis
Sexuality and gender identity in the lives of young, disabled LGBT+ persons. Initiating a dialogue
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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