by Cyberbully Advocate | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
What limiting ideas about your gender or identity do you encounter in your life and how can you challenge them in positive, constructive and playful ways? Where do your own ideas about identity come from? In what ways do you express your authentic self? Who are your...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
In today’s world, the journey of transgender individuals remains a challenging one, fraught with unacceptance and bullying. At STOMP Out Bullying, we believe in creating a world where everyone, regardless of their gender identity, can live with dignity, respect,...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Jun 7, 2024 | digital self-harm, Journal Articles, mental health, Publications, research, self-cyberbullying
Digital self-harm, the anonymous online posting, sending, or otherwise sharing of hurtful content about oneself, has not received the same amount of scholarly scrutiny as other forms of self-directed abuse. In the current paper, we analyze three independent national...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Jun 7, 2024 | Journal Articles, law, Publications, research, sexting, sextortion
Sextortion, the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, is an understudied problem. Despite a recent increase in reported incidents among adolescents in the United States, little is known about the...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Jun 7, 2024 | Blog, cyberbullying, digital self-harm, Featured, mental health
Sameer and I first became aware of digital self-harm over a decade ago when we learned of the suicide of Hannah Smith. She was 14 years old when she ended her life after being mistreated online. The resulting investigation determined that the threats and hurtful...
