Researching Hate as an Activist

Rachel Keighley (she/they) is Research Associate at the University of Leicester in the School of Criminology, UK, and Vice-Chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network. Her work includes researching LGBTQ+ hate, racism and modern slavery and sexual exploitation.

• 1. Introduction: research as activism.- 2. Methods as activism. 3. Conceptualising LGBTQ+ hate.- 4. The online hate landscape.- 5. The nature of online hate.- 6. Understanding its hate speech not free speech.- 7. A policing of queer identities / Inter-LGBTQ+ online hate.- 8. Responding to online hate – research as activism beyond academic knowledge.