Performative Online Identities: A Qualitative Study of Male Sex Worker Usernames
Performative Online Identities: A Qualitative Study of Male Sex Worker Usernames
Kristopher J. Jackson Martha M. Whitfield a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, USAb University of California, San Francisco, CA, USAKristopher Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing & Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and practices as an acute care nurse practitioner. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. His program of research focuses on HIV prevention, sexual health, and healthcare access for sexual and gender minority communities, with particular attention to sex workers and other marginalized LGBTQIA+ groups. His work examines how expectations of masculinity, stigma surrounding sexual behavior, and other individual and structural factors shape the adoption of prevention strategies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and patterns of substance use in the context of commercial sexual encounters.Martha Whitfield is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing & Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, practices as a nurse practitioner on an inpatient addiction treatment service in Fall River, Massachusetts, and is a Clinical Affiliate with the University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction. Her program of research focuses on harm reduction approaches to substance use in primary care and community settings, and on improving access to care for marginalized and minoritized populations affected by substance use disorders. She also studies how increased representation for these populations in research, policy, and practice can reduce inequities in care and outcomes.