Title
LGBTQ Persons' Pregnancy Loss Disclosures to Known Ties on Social Media: Disclosure Decisions and Ideal Disclosure Environments
Abstract
ABSTRACTPregnancy loss is a common yet stigmatized experience. We investigate (non)disclosure of pregnancy loss among LGBTQ people to known ties on identified social media as well as what constitutes ideal socio-technical disclosure environments. LGBTQ persons experiencing loss face intersectional stigma for holding a marginalized sexual and/or gender identity and experiencing pregnancy loss. We interviewed 17 LGBTQ people in the U.S. who used social media and had recently experienced pregnancy loss. We demonstrate how the Disclosure Decision-Making (DDM) framework explains LGBTQ pregnancy loss (non)disclosure decisions, thereby asserting the framework's ability to explain (non)disclosure decisions for those facing intersectional stigma. We illustrate how one's LGBTQ identity shapes (non)disclosure decisions of loss. We argue that social media platforms can better facilitate disclosures about silenced topics by enabling selective disclosure, enabling proxy content moderation, providing education about silenced experiences, and prioritizing such disclosures in news feeds. CAUTION: This paper includes quotes about pregnancy loss.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445331
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
pregnancy loss, miscarriage, LGBTQ health, reproductive health, social media, disclosure, intersectional stigma, intersectionality
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cassidy Pyle100.34
Lee Roosevelt200.34
Ashley Lacombe-Duncan300.34
Nazanin Andalibi412516.28