Queer Reproductive Decision-Making in Saskatoon: Pandemically Complicated
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Abstract
This thesis examines how eighteen queer people living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, made their reproductive decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the twin lenses of queer theory and Cheryl Mattingly’s critical phenomenology 2.0, I have found that queer people in Saskatoon are influenced in their reproductive decision-making by meanings they have created around queer and reproductive safety, the family structures they feel are best and are supported making, and how COVID has impacted meanings of place. One-on-one remote interviews elicited three significant areas that influenced queer reproductive decision-making. The first was how queer family structures are formed, including an analysis of the nuclear family and the ways that approach does or does not work for queer families, the gendered problems queer people face when contemplating pregnancy, and the impacts of COVID-19 on how queer families are formed. The second centres on safety, with people born and raised in Saskatchewan prioritizing social safety and people born in different, sometimes less queer-supporting countries prioritizing physical safety when making reproductive decisions. The third is the relationship between COVID-19 and place, dissecting how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the meanings of place through social distancing and isolation, and how the space between places (i.e. travel, remote connection software like Zoom) has changed meaning during this pandemic, followed by how COVID-19 has specifically impacted queer peoples’ reproductive decisions. Further research on the current queer experience in the prairie provinces is needed to explore this topic, as qualitative research with queer communities in places like Saskatoon is lacking.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".