Love and hate at the Cultural Interface: Indigenous Australians and dating apps

Carlson, Bronwyn

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“…Jack is therefore carefully curating and managing his identities to fulfil his image as sexually attractive to other gay men but must also negotiate inherent racism. The curation of online identities by Indigenous people (Carlson, 2020) and other people of colour (Logan, 2017) online suggests that sexual 'preference' is highly racialised. As Jack points out, being Indigenous is not financially viable as it is not considered to be 'sexy.…”

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“…This data is outdated and somewhat unreliable as the estimation is drawn from a New South Wales-based survey that is reflective of the greater Sydney region and does not include information from rural and remote areas, from those that do not identify as 'sex workers,' and is not inclusive of Indigenous Australian male and transgender sex workers. Furthermore, this data does not capture the uptake of technologies by Indigenous people, particularly youth (Carlson, 2020).…”

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‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work

Sullivan

2021

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Research has historically constructed youths who are involved in sex work as victims of trafficking, exploitation, poverty, and substance abuse. These perceptions often cast the sex worker as deviant and in need of ‘care’ and ‘protection.’ Rarely seen are accounts that provide different perspectives and positioning of youth engaged in sex work. This article explores the lived experiences of Jack, a young gay cis-male who identifies as Indigenous Australian. Despite being a highly successful sex worker, his involvement in such a stigmatised occupation means that he must navigate the social and cultural perceptions of ‘deviant’ and ‘dirty’ work. This qualitative study explores the ways in which Jack negotiates his work, his communities, and the capitalisation of his sexuality. Drawing on Indigenous Standpoint Theory and wellbeing theory, Jack’s choice of sex work is explored through the intersections of sexuality and culture, with the consequences of Jack’s social and emotional wellbeing emerging as his narrative unfolds.

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‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work

Sullivan

2021

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“…Further, it should be noted that these apps are arenas for the reproduction of inequalities and hegemonic hierarchies as they operate through, and potentially extend, existing cultures of xenophobia, homonationalism, and colonial violence (Carlson 2020). The apps' filtering and search options can position our sexual "preferences" as depoliticised consumer rights and thus freed from critical inquiries into their possible bigoted origins (Jørgensen 2016;Andreassen 2020;Møller & Ledin in press).…”

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Flirting and Friendship at the Periphery of Hook-up App Research

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Möller²

2021

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The everyday intimacies of friendship and flirting are not typically exploredin hook-up app research, nor is there much reflection on the intimacies of researching these media. This paper considers flirting and friendship as practices and methods that broaden the scope of current hook-up app research. We ask what these intimacies can produce to expand research approaches (and thus knowledge) of hook-up apps. As users and researchers of these apps, we consider negotiations of flirting and friendship between researchers and research partici- pants by exploring what it means to research with intimacy. Attention is given to the connections, conversations, and intimate encounters within hook-up research that are mostly absent from existing presentations of research findings. We sug- gest that greater attention to peripheral and intimate communication between researchers and participants can offer valuable methods for queering otherwise stabilised ways of knowing, using, and researching these platforms. Adding to the queer ethnographic tradition, we demonstrate how a processual and affective approach to hook-up app use encourages researchers to make visible our connec- tions to the media we research, and how these connections relate to the intima- cies that hook-up apps foster.

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“…For Indigenous people, being “safe” online can necessitate alertness to the dangers of the settler gaze. As Carlson (2019) found in Indigenous Australians’ use of dating apps, “there is a strong sense of danger felt by Indigenous users of these apps that can manifest in strict self-surveillance and vigilant performativity” (p. 14). If a user “steps a foot wrong,” there are potential penalties for the entire social group.…”

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“They Got Filters”: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope

Carlson

Frazer

2020

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Social media technologies have had ambivalent political implications for Indigenous peoples and communities. On one hand, they constitute new horizons toward which settler colonial forces of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and elimination can extend and strengthen their power. On the other hand, social media have also offered opportunities to resist and reject the violence of colonization and its ideological counterparts of domination and racial superiority, and work toward imagining and realizing alternative futures. In this article, we draw on insights from settler colonial studies and affect theory to chart the politics of “affect” through the stories of Indigenous Australian social media users. We first argue that the online practices of Indigenous social media users are often mediated by an awareness of the ‘settler gaze’—that is, a latent audience of non-Indigenous others observing in bad faith. We then outline two responses to this presence described by participants: policing the online behaviors of friends and family, and circulating hopeful, inspiring, and positive content. If “policing” is about delimiting the things of which online bodies are capable, then an affective politics of hope is about expanding a body’s capacity to act and imagining other possible futures for Indigenous people.

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Love and hate at the Cultural Interface: Indigenous Australians and dating apps

Cited by 56 publications

References 37 publications

‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work

‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work

Flirting and Friendship at the Periphery of Hook-up App Research

“They Got Filters”: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope

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