Event overview
As part of Women's History Month, Goldsmiths Applied Psychosocial and Psychotherapy Studies invites you to 'The Other Voices'.
This event, hosted by Dr Atlas Torbati, will include presentations from three Alumni at Applied Psychosocial and Psychotherapy Studies, who share their research findings. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion on issues of identity and othering in a psychosocial context.
How Is Societal Sexual Stigmatisation Redressed Within The Interpersonal Relationships Of Striptease Performers?
Joanna Ash will be presenting her study, looking at how striptease performers navigate and address societal sexual stigmatisation within their interpersonal relationships. Her study offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted nature of stripping, exploring concepts of erotic empowerment, repression, abjection, purity, pollution, and stigma.
Analysing interviews with current and retired strippers, the findings highlight layers of isolation faced by strippers as they navigate a societal taboo on sexual expression. Issues of secrecy, acceptance within intimate relationships and support networks were key areas of exploration. The discussion will challenge societal stigmas and will uncover intersectionality with commitment to addressing systemic injustices.
Microaggression and its impact on second generation Muslim Women
Manna Islam will discuss her study which explores racial and religious microaggressions of second-generation Muslim women who have grown up in the UK. Her study uncovers the need a hybrid identity and a collective sense of belonging.
Analysing interviews with British Bangladeshi women, Manna’s describes how women’s experiences provided a critical look at issues such as the Myth of Meritocracy, the Pathology of the Muslim Religion, Orientalist Media Invalidation, and a Fear of Citizenship Stripping. The psychosocial context of second generation Muslim women is at the essence of the discussion.
“Hey I'm here. I’m hot, I'm having fun.” Exploring the self-curation and digital identities of sex workers on the Web 2.0
Isabella Stoke will be presenting her study into the relationship between sex workers and their virtual self-curation. This study cross-examined the digitised self within the sex industry, by qualitatively analysing sex workers' experiences of advertising on web 2.0. Following interviews with sex workers, the study follows the online curation and identities and the “micro celebrification” of the self online through social media platforms, and through a sex worker lens.
The sex workers’ lived experience revealed an online parasocial intimacy and online identity manufactured through cognitive emotive separation. It also highlighted the altering aesthetic/behavioural constructs to fit targeted audience, stigma, the private vs public self, and online policing, all of which contributing to the “othering” of sex workers.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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