Defining LGBTQ+ Publics Through Consumer Genomics

What are the implications of genomic sexuality research for LGBTQ+ identities and publics? This project provides a timely and collaborative intervention as genomics moves into sexuality research, and LGBTQ+ politics gain new salience. While scholarship has engaged with the emergence of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing in relation to race, ethnicity, and disability little work has been conducted regarding more recent forays into sexual identity and the intersection of these categories. This project seeks to address this gap in the research and examine the implications of these genomic sexuality studies for local and global intersectional LGBTQ+ publics.

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Kate O’Riordan

S.L. Nelson

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Publication date: September 2021

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Pages: 214-219

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.28

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] 23andMe (2021) 23andMe, Inc. Available from: http://www.23andme.com/ ( 30 August 2021 ).

[2] 23andMe (2021) Ancestry Composition: 23andMe’s State-of-the-Art Geographic Ancestry Analysis. 23andMe, Inc. Available from: http://www.23andme.com/en-gb/ancestry-composition-guide/ . ( 30 August 2021 ).

[3] 23andMe Blog (2012) 23andMe Studies the Genetics of Sexual Orientation. 23andMe, Inc. Available from: http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/23andme-studies-the-genetics-of-sexual-orientation/ ( 30 August 2021 ).

[4] D Anderson-Minshall (2012) Can your genes explain sexual orientation? Advocate.

[5] Bi.org (2021) Klein Grid. Bi.org. Available from: http://bi.org/en/klein-grid ( 30 August 2021 ).

[6] M Blell and M Hunter (2019) Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing’s Red Herring: ‘Genetic Ancestry’ and Personalized Medicine. Frontiers in Medicine, 6(48).

[7] D Compton, T Meadow, & K Schilt (eds.) (2018) Other, please specify: Queer methods in sociology. University of California Press, Oakland.

[8] C Dadas (2016) Messy methods: Queer methodological approaches to researching social media. Computers and Composition, 40, 60–72.

[9] A De Paor and P Blanck (2016). Precision medicine and advancing genetic technologies—Disability and human rights perspectives’, Laws, 5(3), p. 36.

[10] E Drabant, A Kiefer, N Eriksson, J Mountain, U Francke, J Tung, D Hinds, C Do (2012) Genome-Wide Association Study of Sexual Orientation in a Large, Web-based Cohort. 23andMe.

[11] A Dunne and F Raby (2103) Speculative everything: Design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT Press, Cambridge.

[12] E Eckhert (2016) A Case for the demedicalization of queer bodies. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 89(2), 239–246.

[13] A Ganna, K Verweij, M Nivard, R Maier, R Wedow, A Busch, A Abdellaoui, S Guo, J Sathirapongsasuti, P Lichtenstein, S Lundström, N Långström, A Auton, K Harris, G Beecham, E Martin, A Sanders, J Perry, B Neale and B Zietsch, (2019) Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior. Science, 365(6456), p.eaat7693.

[14] S Garner and J Kim (2019) The privacy risks of direct-to-consumer genetic testing: A case study of 23andMe and Ancestry. Washington University Law Review, 96(6).

[15] D Hamer, H Magnuson, & A Pattatucci (1993). A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation. Science, 261, 321–327.

[16] K Johnson and A Martínez-Guzmán (2013) Rethinking concepts in participatory action research and their potential for social transformation: Post-structuralist informed methodological reflections from LGBT and trans-collective projects. J. Community Appl. Soc. Psychol., 23, 405–419.

[17] A Nelson (2018) The social life of DNA: racial reconciliation and institutional morality after the genome. The British Journal of Sociology, 69(3),522–537.

[18] K O’Riordan (2012) ‘The life of the gay gene: From hypothetical genetic marker to social reality’, Journal of Sex Research 49(4), 362–68.

[19] A Mittos, J Blackburn and E De Cristofaro (2018). ‘23andMe confirms: I’m super white’ -- Analyzing Twitter Discourse On Genetic Testing.

[20] J Reardon and K TallBear (2012) ‘Your DNA Is Our History’: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property. Current Anthropology, 53(5), S233-S245.

[21] C Scodari (2017). When markers meet marketing: Ethnicity, race, hybridity, and kinship in genetic genealogy television advertising’, Genealogy (Basel), 1(4), 22.

[22] S Schlauderaff (2020). Re-Imagining futurity for fat, disabled and ‘unhealthy’ bodyminds: A response to 23andMe’s health + ancestry genetic testing kits. Fat Studies, 9(3), 238–258.

[23] E Thacker (2005) The global genome. MIT Press, Cambridge.

[24] M Warner (2002) Publics and counterpublics. Public Culture, 14(1),49–90.

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