“In the Beginning, It Was Little Whispers...Now, We’re Almost a Roar”: Conceptualizing a Model for Community and Self in LGBTQ+ Health Information Practices

Although LGBTQ+ populations experience significant health challenges, little research exists that investigates their health from an informational perspective. Our study addresses this gap by exploring the health information practices of LGBTQ+ communities in South Carolina, focusing on how sociocultural context shapes these practices. Thirty semi-structured interviews with South Carolina LGBTQ+ community leaders analyzed using open qualitative coding informed the development of a conceptual framework describing their information practices. Findings show that participants engaged in two broad types of practices – protective and defensive – as responses to risks and barriers experienced, which are in turn produced by social and structural factors. Findings advance information practices and marginalization approaches and offer ways for medical professionals to improve service to LGBTQ+ populations

Reconceptualizing power and gendered subjectivities in domestic cooking spaces

Drawing on evidence from the Global North and South, this paper explores the power dynamics of domestic kitchens in different geographical contexts. Noting the gendered nature of domesticity, it contrasts those perspectives which regard women’s primary responsibility for foodwork as inherently oppressive, with others which see kitchens and associated domestic spaces as sites of potential empowerment for women. The paper explores the complex, spatially-distributed, character of power surrounding domestic foodwork, decentring Anglo-American understandings of the relationship between gender, power and domestic space by foregrounding the experiences of a range of women from across the globe. The paper also examines the increasing role of men in domestic settings, particularly in the Global North, assessing the extent to which their engagement in cooking and other domestic practices may be challenging conventional understandings of the relationship between gender, power and space. Focusing on the spatial dynamics of the domestic kitchen, this paper advances a more nuanced understanding of the co-constitutive nature of the relationship between gender and power, including the instabilities and slippages that occur in the performance of various domestic foodwork tasks. The paper advocates future research on the boundaries of home, work and leisure, focusing on their significance in the constitution and transformation of male and female subjectivities

Abschrift des Lebenslaufes des Sussmann Frohmann aus Reinheim : nach einem von diesem in jüdisch-deutscher Schrift mir vorliegenden Autograph. /

Describes his life as a teacher, ritual slaughterer and cantor in the small Hesse community of Griesheim and the accusations which led to his retirement from these positions. Sussmann Frohmann wrote this memoir in 1853.Sussmann Frohmann was born in Reinheim (Hesse) in 1791. At the age of 13 he entered his father's forage business. Later he became a teacher, slaughterer and cantor in the small Jewish community of Griesheim (Hesse). He had to give up his position after 20 years when he was accused of illegal perquisites.Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 120Published in Monika Richarz: "Juedisches Leben in Deutschland": Vol. I 3

New composite blue sensitive materials for high resolution optical data storage

none8siIn the last three decades several kinds of organic mixtures for holographic recording were developed in order to achieve a new class of DVD-like optical memories for high-density optical data storage. The holographic materials should satisfy the following requirements: high sensitivity to blue light, low losses, high spatial resolution and long term stability. To this aim we developed new organic photosensitive mixtures based on only three components. We recorded high spatial frequency reflection gratings up to 7400 lines/mm with blue laser light (405 nm) by using a conventional holographic setup. We obtained a macro grating diffraction efficiency up to 67%, refractive index modulation over 0.01, optical shrinkage 10^5 cm/J evidences a very fast recording process with a very low writing intensity (less than 20 MW/cm^2) corresponding to a recording energy density of few mJ/cm^2. The performance of these materials have been also tested in the micro-holographic geometry.L.Criante; F. Vita; R. Castagna; D. E. Lucchetta; F. Simoni; S. Frohmann; T. Feid; S. OrlicL., Criante; Vita, Francesco; R., Castagna; Lucchetta, Daniele Eugenio; Simoni, Francesco; S., Frohmann; T., Feid; S., Orli