All Outputs (2)

‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2020). ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories. Sexualities, 23(4), 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719830343

This article demonstrates, via discourse analysis of a group of young gay and lesbian people's coming out stories, the salience of essentialist ideologies on their identity construction. The study reveals underlying normative assumptions in the young... Read More about ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories.

Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2019). Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019(256), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-2013

This article investigates the construction of two transgender vlogger personas, providing insight into the prevalence of normative discourses which may be drawn on when constructing transgender identities. Many transgender people around the world rel... Read More about Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction.