Since the UK government seems intent on playing political football with young people’s digital & offline lives with the social media ban, I'm resharing the paper that @pamogranite.bsky.social, Catherine Talbot & I wrote re: the importance of SM for LGBTQIA+ users journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Faced with offline discrimination, LGBTQIA+ users frequently turn to social media to find role models, build social networks and test out new forms of self-expr...