According to previous reports, selfie takers in widely different cultural contexts prefer poses showing the left cheek more than the right cheek. This posing bias may be interpreted as evidence for a right-hemispheric specialization for the expression of facial emotions. However, earlier studies analyzed selfie poses as categorized by human raters, which raises methodological issues in relation...

This thesis is an examination of non-binary transgender communities on the internet and the new, non-binary modes of subjectivity that can be read within these spaces. After my first introductory chapter, which situates my work in the context of previous contributions to transgender theory, I approach non-binary online communities from different perspectives. My second chapter reads certain cod...

A identidade estável, invenção da modernidade, parece abalada hoje, dando espaço para identificações múltiplas e mesmo efêmeras das quais as fotografias de si nas redes sociais (selfies) constituem um catálogo notável. Estaríamos vivendo numa época em que não sabemos mais quem somos? Esse artigo se propõe relacionar práticas com questões construção identidade, tomando a dissociação consciência ...

This paper problematizes notions of good/bad mothering by putting to work Deleuze and Guattari’s haecceity. Focusing on babywearing, it presents an autoethnography my experiences becoming-mother during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using diffractive analysis, I analyze entanglement research diaries, images/selfies, regulations introduced pandemic, “global cultural script” being a good mother. It works...