Farinaz Basmechi, PhD holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of North Texas and is currently pursuing a second PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, content analysis, and digital media, and she is currently a researcher on the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project. Her dissertation in sociology was Not Just About a Piece of Cloth: Three Content Analysis Studies of an Online Anti-Mandatory Hijab Movement in Iran. In her current research, she is focusing on the graduate students’ experiences with their sexuality and sexual violence in the era of crisis. She has published research in Sociological Spectrum, First Monday and with Oxford University Press.
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