Jessica Fields
Biographic Data
| ID | 80900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Fields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Fields |
| SIGNATURE | FIELDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9800-6440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Queer relationality and re-orientation through queer kinesthesia: Queer mental health, community, and care during the Covid-19 pandemic
2SLGBTQIA+ people are recognized as vulnerable to crises impacting mental health, while the mechanisms through which they navigate crises and regain stability—as individuals and communities—remain less clear. We argue that their attempts to reorient themselves and regain stability during crisis represent a form of queer kinesthesia , a process of kin-making and self-orientation. This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on queer com…
Beyond the Shell of Home
Drawing on empirical and theoretical traditions that approach people's movement through spaces as stories about culture and possibility, this article considers how the conditions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic rigidified societal institutions — such as the home and the relations it envelops — and articulates “queer roaming” as an integral method of queer ontologies of mobility. The authors’ analysis of interviews conducted during the pandemi…
Biosocial Factors Shaping Perceptions of Disease Risk Among a Community‐Based Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority People Living in Toronto During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic has disproportionately affected vulnerable populations, including sexual and gender minority (SGM) people. Food insecurity, prevalent among this population, may influence perceived vulnerability to infection and related psychological outcomes. This study investigated the association between food insecurity and perceived vulnerability to infection among SGM adults in Toronto, Canada, during the third wave of the …
Health Care Access and Use Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness
This cross-sectional study found that adults experiencing homelessness reported poor access to ambulatory care and a high prevalence of short-term care use, despite high rates of insurance. Changes in homelessness during the past 30 years were associated with worsened health care access and use
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the Covid-19 pandemic
The illegalisation of Rohingya refugees in India: A (Non)citizenship Crisis Promoted by Law and Policy
Detentions and a looming threat of deportations have significantly increased for Rohingya refugees since 2017, when the Indian government drastically changed its protection policy and categorised them as ‘illegal migrants’ under law. The result has been an impetus to the security authorities to proactively detect and monitor with the eventual aim to detain and deport Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. Fuelling such illegalisation process is the Indian…
Adventures in gender and sexualities education: Theory as practice
Across her body of work, Kathleen Quinlivan confronted educators’ and students’ failure to teach or to learn as others – conservatives, liberals, parents, policymakers – expect them to. And in the
Adventures in gender and sexualities education: Moments of wonder
This is the first of two special issues of Sex Education that take as their inspiration Kathleen Quinlivan's wild experiments in gender and sexualities education research.Quinlivan was a professor of education at the University of Canterbury in
Associations between valued living and responsiveness to daily rewards
Google Street View-Derived Neighborhood Characteristics in California Associated with Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes
Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment influence health and health behavior. Google Street View (GSV) images may facilitate measures of the neighborhood environment that are meaningful, practical, and adaptable to any geographic boundary. We used GSV images and computer vision to characterize neighborhood environments (green streets, visible utility wires, and dilapidated buildings) and examined cross-sectional associations with ch…
Embodied Engagements: Body Mapping in a Sociology of Sexuality Classroom
Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we discuss body mapping as an embodied pedagogical practice for teaching sexuality. Body mapping centers stigmatized bodies through guided visual, oral, and textual self-representation. We begin by discussing embodied pedagogies and the bind of representation (ideas grounded in the work of feminists of color) in teaching and learning about sexuality. We then consider three body mapping experiences:…
Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India
Rohingya experiences of displacement and refuge are heavily gendered. Sexual and gender-based violence have been used as weapons against Rohingya women, men, girls and boys in Myanmar for decades. Trafficking and exploitation are rife on the flight out of the country, and host states such as India present their own gendered challenges to family survival and individual coping. In this paper, we examine how some of those violent and disruptive expe…
Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of …
Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the Covid ‐19 health crisis
Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), the infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is both transforming and ending lives. In only 7 months (December 2019-July 2020), at least 11 million people have contracted the virus and over 500 000 have died (WHO, 2020). Though its impact is wide, COVID-19's illness and death tolls are felt most acutely by communities experiencing multiple and intersecting (Crenshaw, 198…
Network Changes in Insula and Amygdala Connectivity Accompany Implicit Suicidal Associations
Limited knowledge exists regarding the neurobiology of suicidal thoughts, given that there are currently no direct probes of the suicidal state. This pilot study used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to evaluate correlates of the implicit association between the self and death compared to the self and life as objective markers of suicide risk. Healthy volunteers (HVs; n=21) completed a modified version of the Suicide Implicit Association Task (S-IAT)…
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
Serving 'the Cause: Cecil Jackson-Cole and the professionalization of charity in post-war Britain
This article explores the relationship between faith, business and charity in mid to late twentieth-century Britain by examining the work of Cecil Jackson-Cole, co-founder of Oxfam, founder of Help the Aged, ActionAid and many other charities. Jackson-Cole's approach to 'building-up' a charity accelerated the ongoing professionalization of the sector. This did not, however, represent a complete break from the Christian charity ethos of the past. …
Tending toward friendship: LGBTQ sexualities in US schools
In 2014, Beyond Bullying, a research project examining LGBTQ sexualities and lives at school, installed private storytelling booths in three US high schools. Students, teachers, and staff were invited to use the booths to share stories about LGBTQ sexualities—their stories often invoked the pleasures and disappointments of being and having a friend. This article analyzes narratives of friendship as told in the Beyond Bullying storytelling booths.…
The Future of Evidence: Queerness in Progressive Visions of Sexuality Education
Divided disasters: Examining the impacts of the conflict-disaster nexus for distanced crises in the Philippines
Divided disasters' are conflicts and natural hazard-induced disasters that occur simultaneously, but in different locations within the same national boundaries. They will place pressure on the same national governance structures, will draw on the same international and national humanitarian resources, and therefore can mutually reinforce the challenges and risks faced by affected populations. Yet, as this paper argues, the impacts do not originat…
Renewed commitments in a time of vigilance: Sexuality education in the USA
Over the past 20 years, the USA has seen more than its fair share of controversy with respect to education about sexuality, sex and intimate relationships. Attention has focused on content (abstinence-only vs. comprehensive instruction), delivery (by teachers, parents, health professionals or community educators) and context (within school and beyond). In recognition of this fact, Sex Education invited the development of a virtual special issue c…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research: A Queer Feminist Understanding
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Striving for empathy: Affinities, alliances and peer sexuality educators
Peer sexuality educators' accounts of their work reveal two approaches to empathy with their students: affinity and alliance. ‘Affinity-based empathy’ rests on the idea that the more commonalities sexuality educators and students share (or perceive they share), the more they will be able to empathise with one another, while ‘alliance-based empathy’ is an analytical process of considering the social contexts that shape others' lives. We assess the…
Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of …
Normal Queers: Straight Parents Respond to Their Children's 'Coming Out
This article explores how normative understandings of gender, family, and sexuality provide the foundation for stigma, an avenue out of deviance, and the means by which stigma is perpetuated. Using participant-observation and interview data from a support group for families of lesbian women and gay men, I examine the destigmatizing identity work with which straight parents responded to their children's lesbian and gay identities. The parents' rel…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Children Having Children: Race, Innocence, and Sexuality Education
This feminist ethnographic study considers the rhetoric of “children having children” in debates over school-based sexuality education, a rhetoric that is universalizing but racialized and gendered. I use participant observation and interview data I collected in a North Carolina school system that serves a predominantly African American, low-income student population. I explore educators', activists', and policymakers' responses to state legislat…
Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India
Rohingya experiences of displacement and refuge are heavily gendered. Sexual and gender-based violence have been used as weapons against Rohingya women, men, girls and boys in Myanmar for decades. Trafficking and exploitation are rife on the flight out of the country, and host states such as India present their own gendered challenges to family survival and individual coping. In this paper, we examine how some of those violent and disruptive expe…
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
Risky business: Sexuality education and research in U.S. schools
Divided disasters: Examining the impacts of the conflict-disaster nexus for distanced crises in the Philippines
Divided disasters' are conflicts and natural hazard-induced disasters that occur simultaneously, but in different locations within the same national boundaries. They will place pressure on the same national governance structures, will draw on the same international and national humanitarian resources, and therefore can mutually reinforce the challenges and risks faced by affected populations. Yet, as this paper argues, the impacts do not originat…
Feminist Ethnography: Critique, Conflict, and Ambivalent Observance
Same-sex marriage, sodomy laws, and the sexual lives of young people
The Future of Evidence: Queerness in Progressive Visions of Sexuality Education
Queering food security research: A critical analysis of 2SLGBTQ+ People's experiences of food insecurity in Toronto during the Covid-19 pandemic
The illegalisation of Rohingya refugees in India: A (Non)citizenship Crisis Promoted by Law and Policy
Detentions and a looming threat of deportations have significantly increased for Rohingya refugees since 2017, when the Indian government drastically changed its protection policy and categorised them as ‘illegal migrants’ under law. The result has been an impetus to the security authorities to proactively detect and monitor with the eventual aim to detain and deport Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. Fuelling such illegalisation process is the Indian…
Embodied Engagements: Body Mapping in a Sociology of Sexuality Classroom
Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we discuss body mapping as an embodied pedagogical practice for teaching sexuality. Body mapping centers stigmatized bodies through guided visual, oral, and textual self-representation. We begin by discussing embodied pedagogies and the bind of representation (ideas grounded in the work of feminists of color) in teaching and learning about sexuality. We then consider three body mapping experiences:…
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research: A Queer Feminist Understanding
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Sexuality Education in the United States: Shared Cultural Ideas across a Political Divide
“Sexuality education”– broadly defined as teaching and learning about a range of issues related to puberty, sexuality, and relationships – occurs all day every day, formally and informally, intentionally and unintentionally. Nevertheless, adults organize policy and instruction for young people around a constrained set of concerns: first, that the sexuality education youth receive does not help them navigate an increasingly sexualized and dangerou…
Learning from and with incarcerated women: Emerging lessons from a participatory action study of sexuality education
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Normal Queers: Straight Parents Respond to Their Children's 'Coming Out
This article explores how normative understandings of gender, family, and sexuality provide the foundation for stigma, an avenue out of deviance, and the means by which stigma is perpetuated. Using participant-observation and interview data from a support group for families of lesbian women and gay men, I examine the destigmatizing identity work with which straight parents responded to their children's lesbian and gay identities. The parents' rel…
Same-sex marriage, sodomy laws, and the sexual lives of young people
Children Having Children: Race, Innocence, and Sexuality Education
This feminist ethnographic study considers the rhetoric of “children having children” in debates over school-based sexuality education, a rhetoric that is universalizing but racialized and gendered. I use participant observation and interview data I collected in a North Carolina school system that serves a predominantly African American, low-income student population. I explore educators', activists', and policymakers' responses to state legislat…
Risky business: Sexuality education and research in U.S. schools
Culling the cousins: Kingship, kinship, and competition in mid-millennial England
Kin selection, an aspect of evolutionary theory, argues that, all else equal, individuals should give preferential treatment to relatives, based on the degree of relatedness [Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1–52.]. However, one may observe instances where competition for scarce or unique resources is stronger between family members than between unrelated individuals. Su…
Learning from and with incarcerated women: Emerging lessons from a participatory action study of sexuality education
Sexuality Education in the United States: Shared Cultural Ideas across a Political Divide
“Sexuality education”– broadly defined as teaching and learning about a range of issues related to puberty, sexuality, and relationships – occurs all day every day, formally and informally, intentionally and unintentionally. Nevertheless, adults organize policy and instruction for young people around a constrained set of concerns: first, that the sexuality education youth receive does not help them navigate an increasingly sexualized and dangerou…
Feminist Ethnography: Critique, Conflict, and Ambivalent Observance
Striving for empathy: Affinities, alliances and peer sexuality educators
Peer sexuality educators' accounts of their work reveal two approaches to empathy with their students: affinity and alliance. ‘Affinity-based empathy’ rests on the idea that the more commonalities sexuality educators and students share (or perceive they share), the more they will be able to empathise with one another, while ‘alliance-based empathy’ is an analytical process of considering the social contexts that shape others' lives. We assess the…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research: A Queer Feminist Understanding
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Renewed commitments in a time of vigilance: Sexuality education in the USA
Over the past 20 years, the USA has seen more than its fair share of controversy with respect to education about sexuality, sex and intimate relationships. Attention has focused on content (abstinence-only vs. comprehensive instruction), delivery (by teachers, parents, health professionals or community educators) and context (within school and beyond). In recognition of this fact, Sex Education invited the development of a virtual special issue c…
Divided disasters: Examining the impacts of the conflict-disaster nexus for distanced crises in the Philippines
Divided disasters' are conflicts and natural hazard-induced disasters that occur simultaneously, but in different locations within the same national boundaries. They will place pressure on the same national governance structures, will draw on the same international and national humanitarian resources, and therefore can mutually reinforce the challenges and risks faced by affected populations. Yet, as this paper argues, the impacts do not originat…
Tending toward friendship: LGBTQ sexualities in US schools
In 2014, Beyond Bullying, a research project examining LGBTQ sexualities and lives at school, installed private storytelling booths in three US high schools. Students, teachers, and staff were invited to use the booths to share stories about LGBTQ sexualities—their stories often invoked the pleasures and disappointments of being and having a friend. This article analyzes narratives of friendship as told in the Beyond Bullying storytelling booths.…
The Future of Evidence: Queerness in Progressive Visions of Sexuality Education
Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of …
Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the Covid ‐19 health crisis
Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), the infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is both transforming and ending lives. In only 7 months (December 2019-July 2020), at least 11 million people have contracted the virus and over 500 000 have died (WHO, 2020). Though its impact is wide, COVID-19's illness and death tolls are felt most acutely by communities experiencing multiple and intersecting (Crenshaw, 198…
Network Changes in Insula and Amygdala Connectivity Accompany Implicit Suicidal Associations
Limited knowledge exists regarding the neurobiology of suicidal thoughts, given that there are currently no direct probes of the suicidal state. This pilot study used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to evaluate correlates of the implicit association between the self and death compared to the self and life as objective markers of suicide risk. Healthy volunteers (HVs; n=21) completed a modified version of the Suicide Implicit Association Task (S-IAT)…
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
Serving 'the Cause: Cecil Jackson-Cole and the professionalization of charity in post-war Britain
This article explores the relationship between faith, business and charity in mid to late twentieth-century Britain by examining the work of Cecil Jackson-Cole, co-founder of Oxfam, founder of Help the Aged, ActionAid and many other charities. Jackson-Cole's approach to 'building-up' a charity accelerated the ongoing professionalization of the sector. This did not, however, represent a complete break from the Christian charity ethos of the past. …
Google Street View-Derived Neighborhood Characteristics in California Associated with Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes
Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment influence health and health behavior. Google Street View (GSV) images may facilitate measures of the neighborhood environment that are meaningful, practical, and adaptable to any geographic boundary. We used GSV images and computer vision to characterize neighborhood environments (green streets, visible utility wires, and dilapidated buildings) and examined cross-sectional associations with ch…
Embodied Engagements: Body Mapping in a Sociology of Sexuality Classroom
Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we discuss body mapping as an embodied pedagogical practice for teaching sexuality. Body mapping centers stigmatized bodies through guided visual, oral, and textual self-representation. We begin by discussing embodied pedagogies and the bind of representation (ideas grounded in the work of feminists of color) in teaching and learning about sexuality. We then consider three body mapping experiences:…
Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India
Rohingya experiences of displacement and refuge are heavily gendered. Sexual and gender-based violence have been used as weapons against Rohingya women, men, girls and boys in Myanmar for decades. Trafficking and exploitation are rife on the flight out of the country, and host states such as India present their own gendered challenges to family survival and individual coping. In this paper, we examine how some of those violent and disruptive expe…
Associations between valued living and responsiveness to daily rewards
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Human sexuality (13 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 works)