Dicky Baruah

Biographic Data

ID292194
NAMEDicky Baruah
GIVEN NAMESDicky
FAMILY NAMEBaruah
SIGNATUREBARUAH D
AFFILIATIONSHumsafar Trust
ORCID0000-0002-1116-3345
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Gender Dysphoria, Affirming Care, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults

    Open AccessAnkur Srivastava, William J Hall et al.ARTICLESex Roles2026

  • PrEP eligibility, HIV risk perception, and willingness to use PrEP among high-risk men who have sex with men in India

    Venkatesan Chakrapani, P A Newman et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2022

    HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is not yet included in India’s national AIDS program, with demonstration projects for MSM in planning stages. In order to support PrEP roll-out for MSM, we assessed: (1) associations between guideline-informed PrEP eligibility, HIV risk perception, and perceived PrEP benefits and costs, with willingness to use PrEP (WTUP); and (2) correlates of non-WTUP among PrEP-eligible MSM. Data were collected from MSM (n =…

  • Affirming and negotiating gender in family and social spaces

    Venkatesan Chakrapani, Ayden I Scheim et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2022

    17 participants) and 10 in-depth interviews with transmasculine people in Mumbai and Chennai. Data analyses were guided by minority stress theory and the gender affirmation model. Within family, the pressure to conform to assigned gender roles and gender policing usually began in adolescence and increased over time. Some participants left parental homes due to violence. In educational settings, participants described the enforcement of gender-nor…

  • Someone Else Is Behind The Screen

    Open AccessAnnika Pinch, Jeremy Birnholtz et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2022Cited by: 4References: 66

    Queer people increasingly use geosocial networking apps (GSNAs), such as Grindr and Blued, to find connections. These apps play a particularly important role in countries such as India, where being visibly queer can carry social stigma, and same-sex intercourse was criminalized until 2018. A key challenge on these apps is self-disclosing enough information to appear authentic and build trust with other users, without drawing unwanted attention, s…

  • Willingness to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Preferences Among Men Who have Sex with Men in Mumbai and Chennai, India

    Open AccessVenkatesan Chakrapani, P A Newman et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

  • Layers of Marginality

    Open AccessJeremy Birnholtz, Shruta Rawat et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2020Cited by: 4References: 37

    Some social technologies can reduce marginality by enabling access to individuals and resources through increased visibility and opportunities for social connection, but visibility carries risks that may be outsized for some marginalized populations. This article reports on a study of location-based social apps (LBSA) used by men who have sex with men (MSM) in Mumbai, India, a legally and socially marginalized population. LBSAs, which facilitate …