Collaging together-apart: representations of queer joy in digital spaces
Collaging together-apart: representations of queer joy in digital spaces
This paper examines how queer joy in digital spaces is platformed, performed, and imagined through discussions and collages created during a participatory workshop in the North of England with 11 queer digital platform users. By exploring current and desired forms of queer joy in digital spaces, we evaluate opportunities and challenges for design, including selective anonymity and disclosure, and flexible group boundaries to protect safety whilst also signalling in-group belonging
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Webster, Lexi, Woolley, Dawn, Brown, Genavee, Wilson, Alice, Steeds, Madeleine, Clinch, Sarah and Dalton, Ben
(2026)
Collaging together-apart: representations of queer joy in digital spaces.
Journal of Gender Studies.
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Abstract
This paper examines how queer joy in digital spaces is platformed, performed, and imagined through discussions and collages created during a participatory workshop in the North of England with 11 queer digital platform users. By exploring current and desired forms of queer joy in digital spaces, we evaluate opportunities and challenges for design, including selective anonymity and disclosure, and flexible group boundaries to protect safety whilst also signalling in-group belonging
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 March 2026
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Local EPrints ID: 511338
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/511338
ISSN: 0958-9236
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Author:
Lexi Webster
Author:
Dawn Woolley
Author:
Genavee Brown
Author:
Alice Wilson
Author:
Madeleine Steeds
Author:
Sarah Clinch
Author:
Ben Dalton
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