Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement

Mikhaylova, Oxana; Gradoselskaya, Galina V.

doi:10.1177/2056305121989253

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“…With the development of LGBT+ activism in Russia around the same time (Kondakov 2013b;Stella 2013;Buyantueva 2018;Mikhaylova and Gradoselskaya 2021), homophobia became more articulated as a response to the increased public visibility of queerness and therefore evoked reasonable, albeit brief, responses by relevant international bodies, including the OSCE. A report of 2006 discusses verbal attacks on LGBT+ people in Poland, Latvia and Russia -in all three cases the insults were directed towards activists who tried to organise street events (OSCE 2006, 28-9).…”

Section: A Legal Noveltymentioning

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Kondakov¹

2022

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List of figures and tables viii Acknowledgements ix Series editor's preface xii Introduction: neo-disciplinary power 1 Part I: The authority of law 23 1 The legal field 27 2 From a place of indifference 48 Part II: Unruly sexuality 74 3 Russia in queer colours 77 4 The sexual subject of law 101 Part III: Affects, emotions and law 125 8 Conclusion: the global Memeticon 198 References 211 Index 227VIOLENT AFFECTIONS viii List of figures and tables new guests brought along two more bottles of vodka. In the courtroom, these two men claimed that during the time that elapsed after their arrival, there was a marked increase in tension between Tatyana and Oleg. Tatyana allegedly called him a person with 'non-traditional sexual orientation', requested money from him, and repeatedly bothered him. At one point, Tatyana took Oleg to her bed and 'sat on his face with her genitals, also trying to push her panties into his mouth'. He resisted, which she saw as proof of his homosexuality. One of the guests stood up for Oleg and was locked in a closet, only to be taken to a cemetery later where he was forced to dig his own grave, in which he was buried alive.As the night progressed, Oleg was forced to put on the yellow dress and tights in which the police later discovered his body. The three defendants would soon be found guilty of beating him with their fists, feet and empty vodka bottles. According to the case file, blood was all over the place and Oleg could hardly walk when the drunken group took him to their car and drove in the direction of the Oka River dam. When they arrived, they opened the boot of the car and took Oleg out. He started to walk but fell into a nearby ditch, where he would lie for another week, unfound and eaten by maggots. The defendants left and headed to the victim's flat to pick up some of his belongings, including a TV, a microwave oven and a loudspeaker system. They returned to the original flat, where one of the defendants engaged in sex with Tatyana, and the rest of the guests had sex with another woman.The events of that night were interpreted by the district criminal court as manslaughter (the man who had been buried alive luckily survived the assault and was simply ignored by the court). The judge held that the defendants did not have the intention to kill (this would have constituted murder), but simply caused injuries eventually incompatible with life (manslaughter). In establishing whether the victim was a gay man, the court reviewed a forensic examination of his anus, in which 'spermatozoa were not found'. The three attackers were sentenced to 8 and 9 years in a high-security facility -two of the men were already convicted criminals and therefore received one additional year on their sentences. The rest of the group were summoned only as witnesses, including Tatyana.

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Section: A Legal Noveltymentioning

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Kondakov¹

2022

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“…The same discursive patterns, though, may be used for exclusion, dehumanization, and othering, as well as for radical self-representation. Mikhaylova and Gradoselskaya (2021) show how, in a hostile anti-LGBTQ setting, radical lesbian feminism online discursively poses itself on "deep, even denialist contraposition toward the state and the dominant culture" (p. 9). The paper clearly demonstrates that the publics intended to advocate diversity and tolerance may instead become hermetic, further radicalize, and gradually shift to "internal migration" and self-conscious separation from the public-at-large.…”

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Social Media and Political Dissent in Russia and Belarus: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Bodrunova

2021

Social Media + Society

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The special issue focuses on the roles of socially mediated communication in expressing, aggregating, and shaping political dissent and discontent in Russia and Belarus at the borderline between the 2010s and 2020s. Lately, these post-Soviet countries have demonstrated the growth of restrictive trends in both politics and the public sphere reciprocated by increasing street protest and online polarization. The six papers of the special issue come from the Seventh Annual Conference “Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World” of April 2019. They address the differences between autocracies and democracies in the impact of social media on protest participation, appearance of critical publics, and new media-like gatekeepers on YouTube, Instagram, VKontakte, and other platforms, and cumulative patterns in socially mediated deliberation. The papers demonstrate various manifestations of political disagreement, critique, and moral struggle, including politicization of the mundane, accumulation of self-criticism, and alternation of media consumption habits, thus uncovering the post-Soviet public spheres as vibrant and diverse, even if polarized and constrained.

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Dynamics of online debates: insights from textual network analysis

Pronello,

Cucco,

del Gobbo

et al. 2024

Ann Oper Res

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Textual data analysis is critical for monitoring changing themes over time. To overcome challenges posed by data richness, graph theory emerges as a tool for investigating word-topic associations. We present an approach to clustering co-occurrence word networks that prioritises network similarity quantification over time. Addressing theoretical and network geometrical constraints, a statistical framework for manifold data analysis facilitates the grouping of semantic networks, partitioning the observed time frame into periods, and identifying dominant topics in each period via tensor decomposition. The analysis of Brexit-related tweets demonstrates the efficacy of modern methods for identifying social media patterns on public discourse.

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Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Social Media and Political Dissent in Russia and Belarus: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Dynamics of online debates: insights from textual network analysis

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