Kristina Fuentes
Biographic Data
| ID | 254514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Fuentes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuentes |
| SIGNATURE | FUENTES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4826-4980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adapting Participatory Visual Methods to Online and Hybrid Settings
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of health researchers working with participatory visual methods (PVM) such as Photovoice and Digital Storytelling (DST) have shifted from in-person to online and hybrid settings. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore what the existing methodological literature tells us about these adaptations. Our review was oriented around two research questions: (1) What practices and adapta…
Refusing Surveillance, Reframing Risk
Social work has long operated at the intersection of care and control—nowhere is this more apparent than in its treatment of sex-working parents. This article draws on participatory research with thirteen sex-working parents in California to examine how the child welfare system, family court, and public benefit infrastructures extend punitive surveillance under the guise of support. Utilizing the framework of prison industrial complex abolition, …
Sesta/Fosta as de Facto Hate Policy
Introduction Sex workers overlap demographically with individuals who are pushed into informal economies due to their marginalized identities. Although policies increasing the criminalization of sex work are not regarded as hate politics, we argue that these policies are de facto hate policies against LGBTQ + communities and other marginalized groups. Methods We utilize a literature review of nine empirical studies (2018–2023) on the effects of S…
Strengths and challenges among Black and Latinx people living with HIV during Covid-19
30) were interviewed by telephone and completed demographic, mental health, alcohol and substance use, health literacy, and clinical measures in October and November 2020 in Los Angeles County. Rapid qualitative analysis, descriptive statistics, and mixed-methods merging were used to analyze the data. Qualitative results demonstrated that participants found HIV self-management strategies translated to aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic including hy…
Sex Working Parents
Introduction Research suggests that many sex workers are parents. This paper furthers the literature’s understanding of everyday barriers plaguing sex working parents (SWP) that compound to complicate their ability to build connections with their child’s world and other sex workers. Methods This Participatory Action Research study employed five focus groups in 2022 with thirteen English-speaking SWP in Los Angeles. The focus groups utilized group…
Challenging dominant narratives, interrupting objectification, and queer creativity
Drawing on queer of color critique, this paper uses mixed methods including participant observation, interviews, visual and textual analysis, and photovoice to interrogate sex workers' queer creative practices. Building upon the larger oeuvre of sex working artists, contemporary sex working artists in Los Angeles utilizes queer creativity to thwart hegemonic readings of sex work. Performances at two activist fundraisers drew on the themes and est…
Sex Worker Collectives Within the Whorearchy
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights movement. I utilize qualitative dialogues aligned with participatory principles to consider how a Black feminist disability framework can be employed to explore how intersectionality weaves itself into the lives and networks of 13 sex workers in Los Angeles, CA. Spec…
Under Construction
The empirical literature on social movement framing has largely neglected the processes by which frames are made. This paper addresses this lacuna through a study of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' (CIO) embrace of 'free enterprise' in its postwar program in the 1940s. Conventional accounts present the CIO's use of consensual language in this period as a reflection of the labor federation's rightward ideological drift, but a close exami…
Equality on Trial
Reviewed by: Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace by Katherine Turk Kristina Fuentes Katherine Turk, Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) Katherine Turk's book explores how Title vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has both inspired progressive visions of workplace gender equality in the United States and played a role in preven…
Sex Worker Collectives Within the Whorearchy
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights movement. I utilize qualitative dialogues aligned with participatory principles to consider how a Black feminist disability framework can be employed to explore how intersectionality weaves itself into the lives and networks of 13 sex workers in Los Angeles, CA. Spec…
Sesta/Fosta as de Facto Hate Policy
Introduction Sex workers overlap demographically with individuals who are pushed into informal economies due to their marginalized identities. Although policies increasing the criminalization of sex work are not regarded as hate politics, we argue that these policies are de facto hate policies against LGBTQ + communities and other marginalized groups. Methods We utilize a literature review of nine empirical studies (2018–2023) on the effects of S…
Sex Working Parents
Introduction Research suggests that many sex workers are parents. This paper furthers the literature’s understanding of everyday barriers plaguing sex working parents (SWP) that compound to complicate their ability to build connections with their child’s world and other sex workers. Methods This Participatory Action Research study employed five focus groups in 2022 with thirteen English-speaking SWP in Los Angeles. The focus groups utilized group…
Under Construction
The empirical literature on social movement framing has largely neglected the processes by which frames are made. This paper addresses this lacuna through a study of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' (CIO) embrace of 'free enterprise' in its postwar program in the 1940s. Conventional accounts present the CIO's use of consensual language in this period as a reflection of the labor federation's rightward ideological drift, but a close exami…
Equality on Trial
Reviewed by: Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace by Katherine Turk Kristina Fuentes Katherine Turk, Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) Katherine Turk's book explores how Title vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has both inspired progressive visions of workplace gender equality in the United States and played a role in preven…
Under Construction
The empirical literature on social movement framing has largely neglected the processes by which frames are made. This paper addresses this lacuna through a study of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' (CIO) embrace of 'free enterprise' in its postwar program in the 1940s. Conventional accounts present the CIO's use of consensual language in this period as a reflection of the labor federation's rightward ideological drift, but a close exami…
Sex Worker Collectives Within the Whorearchy
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights movement. I utilize qualitative dialogues aligned with participatory principles to consider how a Black feminist disability framework can be employed to explore how intersectionality weaves itself into the lives and networks of 13 sex workers in Los Angeles, CA. Spec…
Challenging dominant narratives, interrupting objectification, and queer creativity
Drawing on queer of color critique, this paper uses mixed methods including participant observation, interviews, visual and textual analysis, and photovoice to interrogate sex workers' queer creative practices. Building upon the larger oeuvre of sex working artists, contemporary sex working artists in Los Angeles utilizes queer creativity to thwart hegemonic readings of sex work. Performances at two activist fundraisers drew on the themes and est…
Strengths and challenges among Black and Latinx people living with HIV during Covid-19
30) were interviewed by telephone and completed demographic, mental health, alcohol and substance use, health literacy, and clinical measures in October and November 2020 in Los Angeles County. Rapid qualitative analysis, descriptive statistics, and mixed-methods merging were used to analyze the data. Qualitative results demonstrated that participants found HIV self-management strategies translated to aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic including hy…
Sex Working Parents
Introduction Research suggests that many sex workers are parents. This paper furthers the literature’s understanding of everyday barriers plaguing sex working parents (SWP) that compound to complicate their ability to build connections with their child’s world and other sex workers. Methods This Participatory Action Research study employed five focus groups in 2022 with thirteen English-speaking SWP in Los Angeles. The focus groups utilized group…
Adapting Participatory Visual Methods to Online and Hybrid Settings
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of health researchers working with participatory visual methods (PVM) such as Photovoice and Digital Storytelling (DST) have shifted from in-person to online and hybrid settings. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore what the existing methodological literature tells us about these adaptations. Our review was oriented around two research questions: (1) What practices and adapta…
Refusing Surveillance, Reframing Risk
Social work has long operated at the intersection of care and control—nowhere is this more apparent than in its treatment of sex-working parents. This article draws on participatory research with thirteen sex-working parents in California to examine how the child welfare system, family court, and public benefit infrastructures extend punitive surveillance under the guise of support. Utilizing the framework of prison industrial complex abolition, …
Sesta/Fosta as de Facto Hate Policy
Introduction Sex workers overlap demographically with individuals who are pushed into informal economies due to their marginalized identities. Although policies increasing the criminalization of sex work are not regarded as hate politics, we argue that these policies are de facto hate policies against LGBTQ + communities and other marginalized groups. Methods We utilize a literature review of nine empirical studies (2018–2023) on the effects of S…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Criminalization (3 works)