Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to ‘government’ in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter

Onanuga, Paul Ayodele; Schmied, Josef

doi:10.1080/09589236.2022.2066638

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“…In Nigeria, studies on queer visibility are only now just becoming mainstream and gaining traction, with scholarly interventions spanning literary texts and movies, as well as others which come from the perspectives of sociology, psychology and education [7][8][9]. In the current study, I interrogate how Nigerian queer users use images as forms of protest art on their handles.…”

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Weaponising Digital Architecture: Queer Nigerian Instagram Users and Digital Visual Activism

Onanuga¹

2023

LGBT+ Communities - Creating Spaces of Identity

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The body and its portrayal are significant to the politics of gender identity and sexuality. As Instagram constitutes a public domain for self- and group-representation, I appropriate its affordances in the interrogation of queer visibility and digital visual activism within the Nigerian queer community. The central assumption is that the images and their accompanying texts are ideology-laden and consequently become entrenched in the battle for visibility against heteronormativity. I pay attention to six purposively selected queer Nigerian Instagram handles and cull ten representative images for analysis. I integrate the contextual affordances of hashtags and photo-tagging in my discussion of how Instagram contributes to and nourishes public queer discourses in a homophobic space like Nigeria. I conclude that these images as semiotic resources facilitate the decryption of queer marginality and mainstream queer narratives digitally.

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Weaponising Digital Architecture: Queer Nigerian Instagram Users and Digital Visual Activism

Onanuga¹

2023

LGBT+ Communities - Creating Spaces of Identity

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Discursive representations of sexual minorities in China’s English-language news media: a corpus-based study

Zhang,

Zhuang,

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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In contemporary China, sexual minorities (SMs) are still a marginalized community. Prior studies have accorded SMs a great deal of attention, but little research has been conducted on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people in Chinese English-language news media. This article uses corpus linguistic tools to examine popular views on SMs in a larger corpus of 354 news articles, filling the gap in research. Based on data collected from four English-language newspapers in mainland China and informed by discursive strategies, the article concludes that Chinese SMs are prominently represented as unhealthy individuals, but also victims and progressionists. The findings also indicate that conservative and liberal perspectives on SMs co-exist in the English-language newspapers. In addition, potential contributing factors to these representations are discussed.

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Sex Panics: Queer (Counter)publics, Networking, and Sociality in Nigeria

Amodu

2024

Journal of Homosexuality

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Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to ‘government’ in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Weaponising Digital Architecture: Queer Nigerian Instagram Users and Digital Visual Activism

Weaponising Digital Architecture: Queer Nigerian Instagram Users and Digital Visual Activism

Discursive representations of sexual minorities in China’s English-language news media: a corpus-based study

Sex Panics: Queer (Counter)publics, Networking, and Sociality in Nigeria

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