Julie Mooney-Somers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 146774 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julie Mooney-Somers |
| PRENOMES | Julie |
| SOBRENOME | Mooney-Somers |
| ASSINATURA | MOONEY-SOMERS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4047-3403 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Persistent Patterns of Licit and Illicit Drug Use Among Gender and Sexuality Diverse Women in Australia
Sexual Violence and Mental Health Among a National Australian Sample of Bisexual and Pansexual Cisgender Women
This study examines sexual violence and mental health among a national sample of 1,072 bisexual and pansexual cisgender women in Australia. Differences and similarities in demographics, perpetrator characteristics, sexual violence prevalence, and mental health outcomes are explored. Bisexual and pansexual women reported high levels of lifetime (63.3%) and past-year (13.9%) sexual violence, with pansexual women at higher risk. Significant associat…
Drinking, risk, and care
Social ecologies of vaping
Background E-cigarette use is common among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women, yet limited research has explored the influences on vaping practices in this group. This article draws on a longitudinal study of LBQ women’s nicotine use in Australia.Methods Using a social ecological model of health, we examine changes in vaping among 19 LBQ women and non-binary people aged 21–63 years. Participants took part in three semi-structured interviews…
A systematic review and lived experience-informed thematic synthesis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people’s experiences in mental health and substance use services
Psychological, social and cultural influences on smoking among lesbian, bisexual and queer women
This article identifies factors contributing to the ongoing socio-cultural relevance of smoking for some LBQ women in Australia. These specific psychological, social and cultural contexts remain salient for LBQ women's smoking and must be factored into smoking cessation campaigns and programme designs for this population. Tailored messaging that emphasises alternative self-care strategies and the benefits of quitting in the context of supportive …
Queering vaping
Vaping is a dynamic, contested queer practice, reflecting LBQ women's negotiations of identity, community, and agency within restrictive policy environments. Policy and public health strategies must consider the queer socio-cultural meanings and community practices that shape vaping, to avoid reinforcing stigma and unintended harms to LGBTQ+ communities
Beyond dental dams
This paper presents findings from a critical review of literature on the sexual health of lesbian, bisexual, queer, and other sexuality-diverse (LBQ+) women. The review aimed to understand how LBQ + women's sexual health is framed in current research and the impact of this framing on recommendations for future research and practice. We also explored how holistic definitions of sexual health are applied in research. A narrative synthesis of litera…
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people
In Australia, Aboriginal young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or otherwise sexuality and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) are recognised within several overlapping priority populations in state and federal sexually transmissible infection and HIV strategies. However, limited research has documented their unique sexual health experiences, needs and preferences. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 1…
Unpacking vaping in schools
Objectives: In early 2021, Western Sydney school principals expressed heightened concern about rising e-cigarette usage among high school students. This prompted us to assess knowledge, attitudes and perceptions surrounding adolescent vaping in students, school staff and parents, and their preferred strategies to effectively communicate prevention messages. Design: Exploratory qualitative study. Setting: Participants included students (aged 12–16…
Perceptions and Cultural Practices of Vaping Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in Australia
Background The rising prevalence of vaping poses new challenges and opportunities for health policy and public health interventions. Given that, historically, smoking has been more prevalent among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women than other women, this study explores LBQ women’s perceptions and experiences of vaping. Methods Sixty LBQ women and some non-binary people (aged 18–72) participated in in-depth qualitative interviews between May…
All the dykes I know drink beer
This article explores the relationship between gender, sexuality and alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women in Australia. On average, LBQ women consume alcohol at a higher rate than heterosexual women, yet the use of alcohol and its gendered meanings in this population remain under-explored. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 cisgender women, 10 transgender women, and 8 non-binary people who identify as le…
How a 25-year-old periodic survey for lesbian, bisexual and queer women responded and adapted to gender diversity
Twenty-five years ago, the first Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey sought to generate knowledge about HIV risk for women in contact with Sydney’s gay and lesbian community. SWASH has gone on to become the longest running periodic survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women’s health. It reflects LBQ women’s lives back to them and makes LBQ women knowable for Australian public policy. But, like all research, the social reality SWA…
Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Identifying Women
Background: Lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women exhibit high rates of alcohol and tobacco use, yet there is limited qualitative research examining why. Previous research has focused on minority stress explanations, linking alcohol and tobacco use to experiences of discrimination. However, other work considers the social contexts and cultural practices associated with alcohol and tobacco consumption. This confirms the need for more in-depth u…
The sector is ready, and the community needs Australian alcohol and other drug treatment services to ask about sexuality and gender identity
Sexuality and gender diverse Australians are a priority population in federal and state‐based alcohol and other drug (AOD) strategies. Research evidence shows higher prevalence of AOD use by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, riskier use and a higher proportion have accessed AOD treatment. Despite these disparities, Australian AOD treatment services do not routinely collect data on sexuality or gender identity. As a res…
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic
Trans and gender diverse people are globally recognised as being under-served in clinical services, with significant implications for their health. During a national reorientation of the Australian cervical screening programme - from Papanicolaou smears to human papillomavirus screening - we conducted interviews with 12 key informants in cancer policy, sexual and reproductive health and trans health advocacy to understand how trans people's needs…
Alcohol and tobacco consumption among Australian sexual minority women
The Logic of Condom Use in Female Sex Workers in Bali, Indonesia
Studies on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention practices of female sex workers often examine the use of condom as a single behaviour: using or not using condom. This study explores typologies of the logic of condom use as part of exercising meaningful identities from female sex workers' perspectives. We employed in-depth interviews with a purposely selected 35 female sex workers in Bali, Indonesia. Information from the in-depth intervie…
The prevalence and factors associated with smoking among lesbian and bisexual women
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
Manifesto on Art, Design and Social Science—Method as Speculative Event
The authors propose that techniques from art and design can be used within social science research as part of a speculative methodology and provide a set of heuristic principles for speculative method, characterizing it as processual, performative, playful, promising and propositional
The Fallacy of the Bolted Horse
The aim of this article is to critically review and analyse the public representations of mature-age university students in developed and some developing nations and how they compare to the public representations of mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia ('students' also refers to graduates unless the context requires specificity). Relevant texts were identified by reviewing education-related academic an…
Newcomers in a hazardous environment
Public health and social welfare interventions and programmes need to build social networks, social support and solidarity within FSW communities, and provide health education and HIV prevention resources much earlier in women's sex work careers
Manifesto on Art, Design and Social Science - Method as Speculative Event
The authors propose that techniques from art and design can be used within social science research as part of a speculative methodology and provide a set of heuristic principles for speculative method, characterizing it as processual, performative, playful, promising and propositional
Children with lesbian parents
Existing research on children with lesbian parents is limited by reliance on volunteer or convenience samples. The present study examined the quality of parent– child relationships and the socioemotional and gender development of a community sample of 7-year-old children with lesbian parents. Families were recruited through the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a geographic population study of 14,000 mothers and their children. Thi…
Negotiating Desire and Sexual Subjectivity
This article examines the negotiation and interpretation of first experiences of sexual desire in a group of eight young women who identify as Lesbian Avengers, using in-depth narrative interviews. Accounts of desire and its relationship to sexual subjectivity were organized under four broad themes: The significance of a kiss: Is this desire? describes the difficulty in categorizing first experiences of desire towards another woman as sexual; My …
Sex as Commodity
This article draws on a discursive analysis of individual and group interviews with forty-five heterosexual men to examine how men take up and resist discourses of sexuality and gender to (re)produce a recognizable heterosexual subjectivity. It explores the commodification of sex in men's accounts and the various practices men described undertaking to obtain sex. The article argues that the contexts in which men (re)produce sexual subjectivity ha…
At the intersection of marginalised identities
Although the levels of injecting drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations are high, we know little about their experiences of injecting drugs or living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The loss of traditional family and cultural ties means connection to community is important to the well-being of LGBT populations. Although some kinds of drug use are normalised within many LGBT communities, injecting drug use…
All the dykes I know drink beer
This article explores the relationship between gender, sexuality and alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women in Australia. On average, LBQ women consume alcohol at a higher rate than heterosexual women, yet the use of alcohol and its gendered meanings in this population remain under-explored. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 cisgender women, 10 transgender women, and 8 non-binary people who identify as le…
Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Identifying Women
Background: Lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women exhibit high rates of alcohol and tobacco use, yet there is limited qualitative research examining why. Previous research has focused on minority stress explanations, linking alcohol and tobacco use to experiences of discrimination. However, other work considers the social contexts and cultural practices associated with alcohol and tobacco consumption. This confirms the need for more in-depth u…
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people
In Australia, Aboriginal young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or otherwise sexuality and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) are recognised within several overlapping priority populations in state and federal sexually transmissible infection and HIV strategies. However, limited research has documented their unique sexual health experiences, needs and preferences. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 1…
How a 25-year-old periodic survey for lesbian, bisexual and queer women responded and adapted to gender diversity
Twenty-five years ago, the first Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey sought to generate knowledge about HIV risk for women in contact with Sydney’s gay and lesbian community. SWASH has gone on to become the longest running periodic survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women’s health. It reflects LBQ women’s lives back to them and makes LBQ women knowable for Australian public policy. But, like all research, the social reality SWA…
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
Perceptions and Cultural Practices of Vaping Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in Australia
Background The rising prevalence of vaping poses new challenges and opportunities for health policy and public health interventions. Given that, historically, smoking has been more prevalent among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women than other women, this study explores LBQ women’s perceptions and experiences of vaping. Methods Sixty LBQ women and some non-binary people (aged 18–72) participated in in-depth qualitative interviews between May…
Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices
National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of these infections. A collaboration of university researchers, Indigenous health workers and young Indigenous people conducted 45 field interviews to examine how young Indigenous Australians keep themselves healthy and protected ag…
Negotiating Desire and Sexual Subjectivity
This article examines the negotiation and interpretation of first experiences of sexual desire in a group of eight young women who identify as Lesbian Avengers, using in-depth narrative interviews. Accounts of desire and its relationship to sexual subjectivity were organized under four broad themes: The significance of a kiss: Is this desire? describes the difficulty in categorizing first experiences of desire towards another woman as sexual; My …
Children with lesbian parents
Existing research on children with lesbian parents is limited by reliance on volunteer or convenience samples. The present study examined the quality of parent– child relationships and the socioemotional and gender development of a community sample of 7-year-old children with lesbian parents. Families were recruited through the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a geographic population study of 14,000 mothers and their children. Thi…
Sex as Commodity
This article draws on a discursive analysis of individual and group interviews with forty-five heterosexual men to examine how men take up and resist discourses of sexuality and gender to (re)produce a recognizable heterosexual subjectivity. It explores the commodification of sex in men's accounts and the various practices men described undertaking to obtain sex. The article argues that the contexts in which men (re)produce sexual subjectivity ha…
Learning from the past
The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis to explore how they actively negotiate the experience …
Amphetamine-type stimulant use and HIV/STI risk behaviour among young female sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices
National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of these infections. A collaboration of university researchers, Indigenous health workers and young Indigenous people conducted 45 field interviews to examine how young Indigenous Australians keep themselves healthy and protected ag…
HIV risk among Australian men travelling overseas
Increasing international mobility presents a risk for communicable disease transmission. Overseas-acquired HIV infections have been increasingly observed across Australian jurisdictions. This includes a mix of men emigrating from countries with high HIV prevalence and men travelling abroad. There is currently little research exploring international mobility and HIV risk, and as a consequence the increase of men acquiring HIV while travelling over…
Condom negotiation across different relationship types by young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Cambodia's 100% Condom Use Programme is credited with an increase in consistent condom use in commercial sexual interactions and a decrease in HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSWs). There has been little improvement in condom use between FSWs and non-commercial partners, prompting calls for more innovative approaches to increasing condom use in these relationships. To understand why condoms are used or not used in sexual interactions inv…
At the intersection of marginalised identities
Although the levels of injecting drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations are high, we know little about their experiences of injecting drugs or living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The loss of traditional family and cultural ties means connection to community is important to the well-being of LGBT populations. Although some kinds of drug use are normalised within many LGBT communities, injecting drug use…
Newcomers in a hazardous environment
Public health and social welfare interventions and programmes need to build social networks, social support and solidarity within FSW communities, and provide health education and HIV prevention resources much earlier in women's sex work careers
Manifesto on Art, Design and Social Science - Method as Speculative Event
The authors propose that techniques from art and design can be used within social science research as part of a speculative methodology and provide a set of heuristic principles for speculative method, characterizing it as processual, performative, playful, promising and propositional
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
Manifesto on Art, Design and Social Science—Method as Speculative Event
The authors propose that techniques from art and design can be used within social science research as part of a speculative methodology and provide a set of heuristic principles for speculative method, characterizing it as processual, performative, playful, promising and propositional
The Fallacy of the Bolted Horse
The aim of this article is to critically review and analyse the public representations of mature-age university students in developed and some developing nations and how they compare to the public representations of mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia ('students' also refers to graduates unless the context requires specificity). Relevant texts were identified by reviewing education-related academic an…
The prevalence and factors associated with smoking among lesbian and bisexual women
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
The Logic of Condom Use in Female Sex Workers in Bali, Indonesia
Studies on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention practices of female sex workers often examine the use of condom as a single behaviour: using or not using condom. This study explores typologies of the logic of condom use as part of exercising meaningful identities from female sex workers' perspectives. We employed in-depth interviews with a purposely selected 35 female sex workers in Bali, Indonesia. Information from the in-depth intervie…
The sector is ready, and the community needs Australian alcohol and other drug treatment services to ask about sexuality and gender identity
Sexuality and gender diverse Australians are a priority population in federal and state‐based alcohol and other drug (AOD) strategies. Research evidence shows higher prevalence of AOD use by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, riskier use and a higher proportion have accessed AOD treatment. Despite these disparities, Australian AOD treatment services do not routinely collect data on sexuality or gender identity. As a res…
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic
Trans and gender diverse people are globally recognised as being under-served in clinical services, with significant implications for their health. During a national reorientation of the Australian cervical screening programme - from Papanicolaou smears to human papillomavirus screening - we conducted interviews with 12 key informants in cancer policy, sexual and reproductive health and trans health advocacy to understand how trans people's needs…
Alcohol and tobacco consumption among Australian sexual minority women
Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Identifying Women
Background: Lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women exhibit high rates of alcohol and tobacco use, yet there is limited qualitative research examining why. Previous research has focused on minority stress explanations, linking alcohol and tobacco use to experiences of discrimination. However, other work considers the social contexts and cultural practices associated with alcohol and tobacco consumption. This confirms the need for more in-depth u…
Unpacking vaping in schools
Objectives: In early 2021, Western Sydney school principals expressed heightened concern about rising e-cigarette usage among high school students. This prompted us to assess knowledge, attitudes and perceptions surrounding adolescent vaping in students, school staff and parents, and their preferred strategies to effectively communicate prevention messages. Design: Exploratory qualitative study. Setting: Participants included students (aged 12–16…
Perceptions and Cultural Practices of Vaping Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in Australia
Background The rising prevalence of vaping poses new challenges and opportunities for health policy and public health interventions. Given that, historically, smoking has been more prevalent among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women than other women, this study explores LBQ women’s perceptions and experiences of vaping. Methods Sixty LBQ women and some non-binary people (aged 18–72) participated in in-depth qualitative interviews between May…
All the dykes I know drink beer
This article explores the relationship between gender, sexuality and alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women in Australia. On average, LBQ women consume alcohol at a higher rate than heterosexual women, yet the use of alcohol and its gendered meanings in this population remain under-explored. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 cisgender women, 10 transgender women, and 8 non-binary people who identify as le…
How a 25-year-old periodic survey for lesbian, bisexual and queer women responded and adapted to gender diversity
Twenty-five years ago, the first Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey sought to generate knowledge about HIV risk for women in contact with Sydney’s gay and lesbian community. SWASH has gone on to become the longest running periodic survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women’s health. It reflects LBQ women’s lives back to them and makes LBQ women knowable for Australian public policy. But, like all research, the social reality SWA…
Sociology (24 obras) · Psychology (22 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (20 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Lesbian (14 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Queer (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Population (10 obras)