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Alankaar Sharma

@alankaarsharma.bsky.social
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Social work educator and researcher. Masculinities, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, sexuality and sexual rights. He/him.

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Arpita Das @arpitadas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India
Reproduction is considered a core event in a cisgender heterosexual woman’s life. Several hierarchies exist within the field of reproduction, with reproduction being privileged among people from do...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What do future social workers think about same-sex parenting? This is the question we explored in this newly published research. Available to read here: doi.org/10.1080/2770... #SocialWork #Samesexparents #heteronormativity #lgb+families
Screenshot of the article on the journal website. The article is titled ‘Australian social work students’ views towards same-sex parenting”.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Elgar Encyclopedia of #SocialWork has just been published. Sharing here my chapter in it on Men, #Masculinities and #InterpersonalViolence. doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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58: Men, masculinities, and interpersonal violence
As a phenomenon rooted in heteropatriarchy, an examination of interpersonal violence requires attention to the societal gender order which, in turn, necessitates examination of the entanglements of vi...
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The SRG Collective @srgcollective.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New open access article out! Lead by Dr. Candace Christensen and @drshannak.bsky.social, entitled “Queering and Transing Social Work: Imagining QT Futures” in Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work ! apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw/article...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The 2026 #ANZSWWER Symposium will be held at Charles Darwin University, Darwin. The call for abstracts is currently open & will close on 10th July. We encourage contributions from researchers, educators, practitioners, & students, and look forward to receiving your abstracts. #SocialWork
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Call For Abstracts | ANZSWWER
2026 ANZSWWER Symposium Call for Abstracts Complex Lives, Creative Responses: Learning for the Future Charles Darwin University, November 26 and 27 We invite you to submit an abstract for the Australi...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
One of the implicit promises of fascistic misogyny is that stripping freedom from women will give men more freedom. But it's a lie. Men aren't free in a patriarchal system. And in a sex-segregated patriarchal system, they spend more of their time around other men who seek to control them.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sexual Violence and Assault in Rural Australia: A Scoping Review of Regional, Rural, and Remote Contexts. New open access publication in Trauma, Violence, and Abuse journal. doi.org/10.1177/1524... #SexualViolence #SexualAbuse #IPV
A screenshot of the publication. Journal name is Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. Publication title is Sexual Violence and assault in rural Australia: A scoping review of regional, rural, and remote contexts. Also visible are authors' names and the abstract.
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Michael Flood @michaelgflood.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
With its spotlight on the ‘manosphere’, Adolescence begs the question: how do we raise good men? By Professor Michael Flood www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Dropbox copy: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o53eu...
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With its spotlight on the ‘manosphere’, Adolescence begs the question: how do we raise good men? | Michael Flood
Schools, social media platforms, governments and communities can all play a role, but parents can still be powerful influences on the kinds of men their boys will become
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Michael Flood @michaelgflood.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Adolescence writer calls for 'radical action' not role models BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Adolescence: Netflix series writer Jack Thorne wants 'radical action not role models'
The writer behind the year's most talked-about TV show discusses the changes he hopes it will inspire.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In this interesting new article, Lucas Gottzén argues that "feminist scholarship should ... develop models that help men critique neoliberal politics and late capitalism, rather than merely encouraging men to recognize a shared ontological vulnerability." doi.org/10.1332/3033...
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Vulnerability, sovereign masculinity and male identity politics in the manosphere
Critical masculinity scholars have recently suggested that men recognizing their own vulnerability, as well as the vulnerability of others, could be a tool for feminist masculinity politics. These arg...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India - "Reproductive biopolitics is used as a lens to think through the value of wombs in relation to the bodies they inhabit, and the pressures the marketisation of wombs puts on both recipients and donors." doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Reproductive futures within a context of uterus transplants in India
Reproduction is considered a core event in a cisgender heterosexual woman’s life. Several hierarchies exist within the field of reproduction, with reproduction being privileged among people from do...
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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We systematically delved into Tate’s messaging on Telegram and his website so you don’t have to! While contrasting to his vile click baity, misogyny vids @ tweets, Tate’s self-help advice is insidious ideological scaffolding that leads to + celebrates misogyny journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
For men survivors, the experience of disclosing child sexual abuse #CSA is a complex and relational process that evolves over their lifetime. Barriers to disclosure are often linked to patriarchal constructions of masculinity and heteronormativity in society. academic.oup.com/bjsw/article...
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Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse: Experiences of Men Survivors in India
Sexual abuse of boys is a serious problem in India. However, little research exists about the experiences of male survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA), pa
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Jacqui Cameron @jacquic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Check out👇our Conversation article with findings from our 2 #nangs projects led by @julaineallan.bsky.social with Kenny Kor, Helen Simpson and @sarjomac.bsky.social Nangs are popular with young people. But are they aware of the serious harms of nitrous oxide? theconversation.com/nangs-are-po...
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Nangs are popular with young people. But are they aware of the serious harms of nitrous oxide?
We spoke to young people who didn’t know about the risks, even when they reported side effects including brain fog and seizures.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 07/01/2025
Maura Finkelstein, a former tenured professor at Muhlenberg College, was fired for sharing a post by Palestinian poet Remi Kenazi on her Instagram story.
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She was fired for pro-Palestine speech. She's a Jewish professor.
Maura Finkelstein, a former tenured professor at Muhlenberg College, was fired for sharing a post by Palestinian poet Remi Kenazi on her Instagram story.
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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Pleased to see this is now published as online first: “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback” @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social, LaMarre & Adams doi.org/10.1037/qup0...
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Jeffrey Butts @jeffreybutts.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just saying hi to the folks I've recently connected with on this site👋. I’m a #SocialWork academic, focusing on masculinities, sexual violence & sexuality. My recent work explores men survivors’ lived experiences of #ChildSexualAbuse. It's great to connect with folks again, away from the other site!
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The university is a relational space. It isn’t a repository to knowledge that is meted out to those who pay an entrance fee. It isn’t someplace where some teach and others learn. Instead, the university is a community. Learning happens in community. Knowledge is developed in community.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
New publication discussing the role of effeminophobia (i.e. disdain of feminine-identified gender presentations among boys/men) in shaping meaning-making of #ChildSexualAbuse experiences for boys and men victim-survivors. emerald.com/insight/cont.... #MaleSurvivors #CSA #masculinity
Screenshot of the title of the paper. Black text on white background. The text says: Chapter 6. 'I thought that I am girly, girlish because of all that': Effeminophobia as violence in the context of child sexual abuse and hegemonic masculinity in India. Alankaar Sharma. University of Wollongong, Australia.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Our ( @vicclarke.bsky.social and my) critique of #COREQ is now published (proofs corrected version) in Methods in Psychology How do you solve a problem like COREQ? A critique of Tong et al.’s (2007) Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.me...
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Redirecting
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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
CFP for a collection I’m co-editing with Zachary Palmer. Please consider sending us something and RT to help us spread the word.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Allyship and social justice: Men and allies in challenging men's violence and discrimination against women. Book chapter available to read here: xyonline.net/content/ally...
Top 1/4 of the image is white background with black text. The text reads -- Allyship and social justice: Men as allies in challenging men's violence and discrimination against women, Alankaar Sharma. The bottom 3/4 of the image is blackish-brown abstract background with white text. The text reds: Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin & Margot Rawsthorne, Working across difference: Social work, social policy and social work.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
New publication (w/ Dr Amelia Wheeler) -- Heteropatriarchy and child sexual abuse: Contemplating profeminist practice with men victim-survivors, in the Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work. Please let me know if you want access. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
New article alert 🚨 from my fabulous PhD student EB Gross and our health care provider collaborators at UM Health Service on #HealthCare experiences of #trans and #GenderDiverse college students. As always, please let me know if you need a copy! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QTRUI...
screen shot of a peer reviewed article in Journal of LGBT Youth
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
An interview in which journalist Zubeda Hamid of The Hindu newspaper and I talk about how to understand and address sexual abuse of boy children. www-thehindu-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theh...
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Child sexual abuse research in India should move away from prevalence studies, focus on intervention...
Scholar Alankaar Sharma explains how dominant notions of masculinity affect child abuse survivors and can minimise support, how boys can internalise abuse, and the need for research that studies the l...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
I was recently interviewed by the New Indian Express in which I discussed how patriarchy, while unjustly privileging men and boys, is also toxic to their well-being; and how patriarchal norms adversely affect men and boys who have experienced child sexual abuse. #masculinity #childsexualabuse
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Understanding child sexual abuse beyond gender
CHENNAI : While society has become better at acknowledging child sexual abuse (CSA), the belief that only girls are vulnerable persists among many. Dr Alankaar
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
I will be giving the 10th Annual Tulir-CPHCSA Lecture this year on 24th Jan. Tremendously honoured to have been invited to give this lecture. Looking forward to being back in Chennai and sharing what I have learnt about boys, child sexual abuse, and masculinities, through my research and practice.
Invite for the 10th Tulir-CPHCSA Annual Lecture
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
📚 Exciting News! 🌟 Our recently published book Using Social Research for Social Justice just received a review in European Social Work Research journal! 🎉 Check out the review here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Hot off the press! So excited to announce the publication of our book ‘Using Social Research for Social Justice: An Intro for Social Work and Human Services’. Based on our experiences of doing and teaching research over many years and in disparate contexts. www.routledge.com/Using-Social...
Title cover of the book. Featuring an abstract multicolor painting. Authors names are mentioned in the following order: Margot Rawsthorne, Emma Tseris, Amanda Howard, Mareese Terare, and Alankaar Sharma.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Universities: “we hope you had a relaxing holiday period and are ready for an exciting and productive year ahead” Academics:
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Matteo Botto @teobotto.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
📜 Finally, it's online! The article I wrote with Lucas Gottzén is in the Journal of Gender Studies! 🔍 We investigated why many young men enter and leave the manosphere and detailed the essential role of vulnerability in these processes #GenderSky #AcademicSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ge Rivers🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @georgiarivers.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
some pals & I are hosting an LGBTQIA+ research conference at the university of sheffield. it is open to students outside of UoS. if you're interested in presenting, please submit an abstract to this form forms.gle/8LmSEvSbSg5i... by November the 6th. we'll be releasing free tickets to book soon 🏳️‍🌈🎓
Call for papers, deadline: 6th November 2023. 

Queer research is everywhere! 
22nd November 2023 at the University of Sheffield 

We welcome submissions from postgraduate researchers who have any LGBTQIA+ related work to present. 
We recognise that current students may not be at the findings stage of their research and encourage submissions of any completed stage of work that would be of interest to the community. 

Submit your abstracts (250 words) by the 6th November, applicants will be notified of the outcome by 8th November.The information shown in this image is available at the following link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mC4qA_BGgt35uWz3z6gpCta7rBQk6QYR927iZhVuuHU/mobilebasic
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
‘So, What is a Good Masculinity?’: Navigating Normativity in Violence Prevention with Men and Boys. Interesting research which addresses the question: can a focus on ‘positive’ or ‘healthy’ masculinities effectively go beyond the binary gender relations that underpin gendered violence?
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‘So, What is a Good Masculinity?’: Navigating Normativity in Violence Prevention with Men and Bo...
Engaging men and boys to address the links between masculinity and gendered violence is a rapidly expanding space for primary prevention, in Australia and globally. There are parallel debates withi...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Sexual abuse of boys is an under-researched and under-addressed area. Research shows that CSA can impact men survivors’ lives in significant and lasting ways, and survivors’ experiences are profoundly influenced by patriarchal notions of masculinity. Here's a paper on impact of CSA on men and boys.
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Men survivors’ perspectives on impact of child sexual abuse
Previous research has shown alarming rates of prevalence of child sexual abuse (CSA) in India, including among boys. However, little is known about li…
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
First post here! Welcome, everyone!
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Three students are recruiting for projects... Please pass on if/as relevant. 3. Aotearoa-based WhatsApp interviews with younger (18-25) men about male friendship.
Text-dominated recruitment advertisement with a shadow image of two people with arms up. The main text states: participants in a study on young men and friendship. remaining text contains further information.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
The Australian Social Work journal is calling for reviewers. More info: doi.org/10.1080/0312...
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Hot off the press! So excited to announce the publication of our book ‘Using Social Research for Social Justice: An Intro for Social Work and Human Services’. Based on our experiences of doing and teaching research over many years and in disparate contexts. www.routledge.com/Using-Social...
Title cover of the book. Featuring an abstract multicolor painting. Authors names are mentioned in the following order: Margot Rawsthorne, Emma Tseris, Amanda Howard, Mareese Terare, and Alankaar Sharma.
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Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Hi! I'm new here. I am a social work researcher and educator, and I research in the areas of men and masculinities, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, and sexual rights. Here is my most recent publication on men victim-survivors' experiences of disclosing child sexual abuse.
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Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse: Experiences of Men Survivors in India
Sexual abuse of boys is a serious problem in India. However, little research exists about the experiences of male survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA), particu
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