@article{ref1,
title="Explaining self-harm: youth cybertalk and marginalized sexualities and genders",
journal="Youth and society",
year="2015",
author="McDermott, Elizabeth and Roen, Katrina and Piela, Anna",
volume="47",
number="6",
pages="873-889",
abstract="This study investigates self-harm among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people. Using qualitative virtual methods, we examined online forums to explore young LGBT people's cybertalk about emotional distress and self-harming. We investigated how youth explained the relationship between self-harm and sexuality and gender. We found that LGBT youth may articulate contradictory, ambiguous, and multiple accounts of the relationship but there were three strong explanations: (a) self-harm was because of homophobia and transphobia; (b) self-harm was due to self-hatred, fear, and shame; (c) self-harm was emphatically not related to sexuality or gender. There was evidence of youth negotiating LGBT identities, managing homophobia, resisting pathologization, and explaining self-harm as a way of coping.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0044-118X",
doi="10.1177/0044118X13489142",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X13489142"
}