Veronica E. Rubinsztain

The Pit Beneath the Town Square: How Digital Solastalgia Affects Platform Migration and Community Structures of Transfeminine Users

Transgender women and transfeminine nonbinary people (transfems) rely on social media for community and critical resources that are rare offline. However, transfems face perpetual risks of those communities suddenly turning hostile or transphobic, forcing withdrawal and losing those resources. To investigate, we condu…