Queer Digital Lives LGBTQ Realities and Resistance under Platform Capitalism

Contributor Biographies

Part I · Theorising Queer Platforms and Algorithmic Power

1. In-Queery of Online Space(s)

Caitlin Walrath, Amelia Parker & Leandra Hernández

2. An imperfect archive: Deplatformed queer images in Sensitive Content magazine

Cody Hays, Amanda Kehrberg, Chelsea Reynolds & Haley Achtzehn

3. Platformed Queerness: Algorithmic Power and Queer Meaning-Making in the Reception of Emilia Pérez

Mary (Maria) C. Ortega

4. Invisible Touch: Algorithmic Hostility, Internet Memes and Queer Resistance on Italian Instagram

Michele Varini & Milos Moskovljevic

5. Entangled in the algorithm: analysing dominant imaginaries of TikTok youth transness and neurodivergence

Megan Fereday & Olu Jenzen

6. Reclaiming the Feed: Queer Media Education for the Platform Society

Salvatore Messina & Marika Mascitti

7. When Pessimism Is the Strategy: Senhorita Bira’s Resistance Through “Confessional Lessons” on YouTube
Fernanda Pires Gurgel

Part II · Global South, Postcolonial, and Authoritarian Infrastructures

8. Ambivalent Visibilities: Bengali Transgender Representation and the Third Space on Social Media

Debjani Halder, Sagnik Chakraborty & Shuba HS

9. Masculinity in Make-up: Resistance and Reception of Androgynous Performances in Instagram Reels

Deepika Gaurav

10. Between Digital Closet and Refuge: Queer Negotiations on Social Media in Northeast India

Sayan Dey & David Lalhmachhuana

11. Platformed Lifelines: Social Media and Information Access for Transgender Communities in Crisis in Malakand, Pakistan

Sajjad Ali, Muhammad Ihtesham Khan, Suliman Akbar, & Asaad Ahmad

12. Queer Expressions through Memes and Fanfiction: Representation and Resistance on Sri Lankan Social Media

Poongulaly Srisangeerthanan

13. Instrument of Mass Rejection: A Computational Analysis of Patterns and Audience Engagement Metrics on Nigerian and Canadian TikTok

Nathan Oguche Emmanuel & Sunday Samuel Ameh

14. Algorithmic Intimacies and the Curated Self: Negotiating Identity, Visibility, and Homonormativity on Blued

Runping Zhu, Yihan He, Zhanbo Shi, & Kun Fang

15. Streaming Queer Asia: Platform Governance and Conditional Visibility on GagaOOLala

Xavier I. C. Chan 陳二泉

16. Techno-Justice: Resisting and Redefining Ghanaian Queer Realities on Instagram

Sheilla Addison

17. Reporting, Resisting, Reposting: Navigating Queerness and Control on Persian Twitter

Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh

Part III · Violence, Moderation, and Online Care

18. Erasure of Queer and Disabled Bodies: A Feminist Disability Lens on Visibility and Censorship

Mona Asadian

19. Digital Harassment and Platformed Lives: LGBTQ Experiences from Delhi NCR, India

Hoimawati Talukdar & Aneesh K A

20. “#PowerToLive”: Digital Care Work in the Climate Crisis

Jess Rauchberg

Part IV · Queer Economies, Labor, and Platform Capitalism

21. From X to OnlyFans – Queer Sex Work in Cross-Platformed Economies

Ivy A. Lyons

22. Towards a transinclusive and decolonial technology: transmasculine hackers’ practices and digital resistances in Brazil

Pedro Barrios

23. Access Denied: No Crips, Queers, Fems, Fatties, Rice, Dinge or Spice Queens

Mark Vicars, James Milenkovic & Janine Arantes

24. YouTube as an Ally of Convenience: Queer Visibility, Algorithmic Harm, and Platform Accountability

Jill Nicole Fredenburg

25. Rogue Archives of Care: Screenshot Practices and Transfeminist Media Infrastructures

Jake E. Knight

26. Platformed Comradeship in an Active Pornographic Space: Sexing up a Queer Commons

Yidong Wang

27. Strategic Ordinariness and Calibrated Authenticity: How LGBTQ+ Couples Navigate Algorithmic Visibility on TikTok

Jonalou S. Labor & Christian Jaycee Samonte

Index

Biography

Paromita Pain is Associate Professor of Global Media Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member for the Cybersecurity Center, and the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She also serves as Associate Faculty at the Center for Border & Global Journalism at the University of Arizona. She is the editor of LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective (2022) and Global LGBTQ Activism (2023).