Understanding and Transforming Divisions around Sexuality, Gender and Abortion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary: Polarisation is a key issue of our time, and is increasingly focused on gender, sexuality and/or abortion, areas where rights have advanced for some in the 21st century. Beyond Opposition is a project that seeks to develop understandings about the experiences of these divisions, and experiment in living together where we cannot change everyone’s mind. Exploring the experiences of those opposed to or concerned about social and legal changes to gender, sexuality and/or abortion, 161 interviews were held with people living in Ireland, Canada and Great Britain. The interviews found that: Those who are opposed to or concerned about socio-legal changes to gender, sexuality and/or abortion are not all the same, and are not all rightwing Everyday lives can be affected by holding these positions, particularly at work and home Some participants were very careful about where they went and what they said regarding their positions on gender, sexuality and/or abortion Participants said that they found support and developed their activisms because of their experiences, including confrontations Negative experiences can embolden and entrench positions that oppose socio-legal changes on gender, sexuality and/or abortion Bringing people together across divisions around gender, sexuality and/or abortion, three discussion groups (n. 39) and three creative artist-led workshops (n. 35 using visual art, sound and theatre) were carefully created in Dublin, Vancouver and Glasgow. These events brought people together to imagine new worlds in which to live and create across division, without changing minds or debating the issues. The discussion groups and artist-led workshops found that: It is possible to bring some, but not all, people together in workshops that include those who disagree with you on gender, sexuality and/or abortion There is a desire to engage beyond division and polarisation around gender, sexuality and/or abortion The ideal worlds we want to live in are sometimes incompatible with diverging positions on gender, sexuality and/or abortion Art can be used in ways that work across division in gender, sexuality and/or abortion Through curating research via the imperfectutopias.eu virtual exhibition, the project seeks to spark conversations and experiences beyond reporting on findings
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".