Who better to discuss gender politics than me, a wealthy, able-bodied, straight, white man? Perhaps that shouldn’t matter. Ideally, we would approach technological and behavioural sciences with the academic objectivity they warrant. However, in the intersecting domains of sex and gender, it’s impossible to separate the author from the narrative. The term ‘sexual politics’ is […]
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Who better to discuss gender politics than me, a wealthy, able-bodied, straight, white man? Perhaps that shouldn’t matter. Ideally, we would approach technological and behavioural sciences with the academic objectivity they warrant. However, in the intersecting domains of sex and gender, it’s impossible to separate the author from the narrative. The term ‘sexual politics’ is […]
Despite the fact that you might not have heard the term ‘digisexual’ we might all fall inside its spectrum. The term, developed in 2017 by North American academics Neil McArthur and Markie Twist, is used to describe someone whose “primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology”. But what does this really mean and […]
Rebel Wilson, the Australian actor, and Carly Steel, the British actor and presenter, have launched a new dating app, Fluid, for people who want to browse profiles without setting sexuality specifications. In recent years mainstream dating apps such as Tinder have been adding new gender and sexuality options to search parameters and profile settings, in […]
Facebook and Instagram will remove advert targeting options based on users’ interest in posts based on sexuality, the social media platforms’ parent company, Meta, has announced. The move is part of a new policy to remove advert targeting options for topics deemed sensitive. Topics include political affiliation, ethnicity and religion, as well as sexuality. The […]
Does technology have a problem with diversity? Like most big industries rooted in mainstream history – being typically white, male, cis-centric and heteronormative – it’s not surprising that ‘Big Tech‘ struggles with assuaging the needs of marginalized communities. What’s special about technology, however, is its ability to transform society by creating tools for elevating the […]
