Not going to the mainland: queer women’s narratives of place in Tasmania, Australia

Grant, Ruby

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2020.1784101

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“…The counter-urban movement and cultural consumption practices of predominantly white, middle-class lesbian and gay cisgender women and men have been simultaneously implicated in the urbanisation and gentrification of rural areas (Smith and Holt 2005). These 'gay capitals' are inhabited primarily by elder lesbians and potentially less accessible or catered to young people who are more likely to inhabit plurisexual identities and have considerably less financial security (Grant 2021). Taken together, our findings challenge contested notions of inherent non-inclusion in rural and regional areas but infer potential inequities in access to inclusive GP care and mental health services across identity groupings (e.g.…”

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The influence of care continuity and disclosure of sexual orientation in general practice on lesbian, bi+ and queer cisgender women’s engagement with mental health services

Buckingham

Bourne

McNair

et al. 2023

Aust. J. Prim. Health

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Background Lesbian, bisexual+ and queer (LBQ+) cisgender women have considerable unmet mental health needs. The aims of this study were to examine LBQ+ cisgender women’s prior engagement with general practitioners (GPs), and how this relationship shaped their mental health service use. Method Data from 2707 cisgender LBQ+ women were drawn from a national survey of adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer or questioning, asexual and other diverse sexuality and gender identities (LGBTIQA+) in Australia. Multivariable logistic regression analyses examined demographic predictors of continuity of care with GPs and GPs’ awareness of LBQ+ women’s sexual orientation. The relationship between these variables and recent mental health service use was then analysed, comparing LBQ+ women’s engagement with services known to be LGBTIQA+ inclusive and those without an inclusive reputation. Results LBQ+ cisgender women with a regular GP had greater odds of having accessed mental health services in the last 12 months. Two-thirds had a regular GP, with the lowest odds among women aged 18–35 years and highest odds among women with a disability. LBQ+ women who did not believe their regular GP knew of their sexuality had lower odds of having accessed LGBTIQA+ inclusive mental health services. These individuals were typically aged below 25 years, bisexual+ or queer identified, had below undergraduate-level education, earned <$2000 AUD per week, or lived in an outer-suburban or regional area. Conclusion GPs may be missing opportunities to promote continuity of care through developing trusting relationships with specific sub-populations of LBQ+ women, which in turn appears to sustain inequitable access to mental health care. To offer appropriate care and referrals for this population, GPs should provide safe and inclusive environments to enable comfortable and supportive discussions about sexual orientation when this is relevant to a person’s health care.

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The influence of care continuity and disclosure of sexual orientation in general practice on lesbian, bi+ and queer cisgender women’s engagement with mental health services

Buckingham

Bourne

McNair

et al. 2023

Aust. J. Prim. Health

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Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology

Albion

Russell

2022

Crit Crim

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The southern island of Tasmania is renowned for being the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1997. Twenty years after the repeal of these laws, the state parliament of Tasmania passed legislation introducing an expungement scheme for historical homosexual convictions and delivered an apology for their harms. In this article, we draw upon theories of sexual citizenship to develop a critical place-based analysis of the Tasmanian apology that is attentive to the specificities of the region’s political, social, and cultural context. We argue that the parliament’s attempts to redefine the boundaries of sexual belonging through apology and expungement entail new forms of erasure, exclusion and policing. The limits of the apology’s liberal discourse of progress are foretold by several tendencies within its narration, including: the persistent impulse to erase both past records of the law’s violence and future LGBTQIA + identities; assumptions of sexual essentialism and biological determinism; and the uneasy demarcation of il/legal sexual practices, which reasserts the state’s authority to govern sexuality through recourse to the criminal law. Our analysis highlights the need for more place-based analysis of emergent modes of sexual governance within queer criminology and for further research into the material benefits, if any, that apologies and expungement schemes provide to those affected.

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Place, belonging, and more-than-human community: a visual study of older lesbians in rural Tasmania

Grant

Walker

2021

Australian Geographer

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Not going to the mainland: queer women’s narratives of place in Tasmania, Australia

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

The influence of care continuity and disclosure of sexual orientation in general practice on lesbian, bi+ and queer cisgender women’s engagement with mental health services

The influence of care continuity and disclosure of sexual orientation in general practice on lesbian, bi+ and queer cisgender women’s engagement with mental health services

Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology

Place, belonging, and more-than-human community: a visual study of older lesbians in rural Tasmania

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