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Faculty frequently express concerns about students' personal use of information and communication technologies in today's university classrooms. As a requirement of a graduate research methodology course in a university in Ontario, Canada, the authors conducted qualitative research to gain an in-depth understanding of students' perceptions of this issue. Their findings reveal students' complex considerations about the acceptability of technology use. Their analysis of the broader contexts of students' use reveals that despite a technological revolution, university teaching practices have remained largely the same, resulting in "cultural lag" within the classroom. While faculty are technically "in charge", students wield power through course evaluations, surveillance technologies and Internet postings. Neoliberalism and the corporatisation of the university have engendered an "entrepreneurial student" customer who sees education as a means to a career. Understanding students' perceptions and their technological, social and political contexts offers insights into the tensions within today's classrooms.

Sexual and mental health disparities are reported in Arctic Canada as in other Arctic regions that experience shared challenges of insufficient healthcare resources, limited transportation, and a scarcity of healthcare research. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons (LGBTQ+) report sexual and mental health disparities in comparison with their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, and these disparities may be exacerbated in rural versus urban settings. Yet limited research has explored sexual healthcare experiences among LGBTQ+ persons in the Arctic who are at the juncture of Arctic and LGBTQ+ health disparities. We conducted a qualitative study from May 2015 to October 2015 with LGBTQ+ persons in the Northwest Territories, Canada that involved in‐depth individual interviews with LGBTQ+ youth (n = 16), LGBTQ+ adults (n = 21), and key informants (e.g. coaches, teachers, nurses, social workers, and healthcare providers) (n = 14). We conducted thematic analysis, a theoretically flexible approach that integrates deductive and inductive approaches, to identify and map themes in the data. Findings reveal geographical, social, and healthcare factors converge to shape healthcare access. Specifically, the interplay between heterosexism and cisnormativity, intersectional forms of stigma, and place limited LGBTQ+ persons' sexual healthcare access and produced negative experiences in sexual healthcare. Limited healthcare facilities in small communities resulted in confidentiality concerns. Heteronormativity and cisnormativity constrained the ability to access appropriate sexual healthcare. LGBTQ+ persons experienced LGBTQ+, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections stigma in healthcare. Participants also discussed healthcare provider recommendations to better serve LGBTQ+ persons: non‐judgment, knowledge of LGBTQ+ health issues, and gender inclusivity. Findings can inform multi‐level strategies to reduce intersecting stigma in communities and healthcare, transform healthcare education, and build LGBTQ+ persons' healthcare navigation skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A major component of the online pro-eating disorder culture (‘pro-ana’ and ‘pro-mia’) is what is referred to as ‘thinspiration’ or ‘thinspo’, which consists of images, slogans and videos aimed at inspiring the pursuit of extreme thinness. More recently, there is a specific kind of thinspiration, labeled online as ‘black girl thinspiration’, that seeks to inspire black women to reject fuller-figured body shapes as beautiful and responsible. Through the application of a spatial analysis, I contend that pro-eating disorder environments are spaces where women attempt to de-mark their racialized bodies through hard work, will-power and mastery over their desires. Theorizing from critical race and feminist postmodern perspectives, this article disrupts the white hegemony and privilege of the thin ideal. This disruption is achieved through unmapping how modern capitalism, sexism, and racism operate in unison to produce women who starve, purge, abuse laxatives and hate their bodies, while highlighting the tremendous violence embedded in these practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women are taught that if they 'eat right,' 'exercise right,' and have enough 'will-power' they can achieve an idealized thin body. I have been engaged in an ethnography of pro-eating disorder communities ('pro-ana' and 'pro-mia', pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia), eating disorder communities, and media and every-day representations of women's bodies for the last three years. This paper describes the 'safe versus fear/binge food' videos made by girls who identify as having an eating disorder. Bloggers (both pro-eating disorder and otherwise) report consuming processed diet-foods, labeled as 'fat-free', 'sugar-free' and 'calorie-free,' which I define as 'diet pseudo-foods.' My findings led me to interrogate the popular branding and marketing of products with the word 'skinny.' From a feminist postmodern perspective, I draw upon concepts from critical perspectives in food studies in order to contextualize disordered eating within a broader food culture that insidiously sells and glamorizes skinny. I deconstruct how skinny and diet labels are harmful discourses that individualize food choice responsibility, and teach women that self-worth is a waist-line measurement. Food marketing is a pedagogical act that disseminates lessons that perpetuate a 'skinny girl' pedagogy. These lessons damage women's relationships to food/eating, to their bodies, and to their understandings of self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]