Citations:gatekeepery

English citations of gatekeepery and gatekeeper-y

Adjective: "engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping"

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• 2006, Elroi Waszkiewicz, "Getting by Gatekeepers: Transmen's Dialectal Negotiations within Psychomedical Institutions", thesis submitted to Georgia State University, page 115:

  Before he found a trans-positive nurse practitioner in this clinic to work with, his previous provider there was “ridiculous and intense and gatekeeper-y about testosterone.”

• 2017, Frank Cifaldi, quoted in Will Freeman, "Save And Continue", Develop, April 2017, page 14:

  Nostalgia is unproductive at best, and harmful at worst. I think it leads to gatekeeper-y behaviour, in terms of people feeling ownership over how we talk about things, or what something should be, or what gender a Ghostbuster is allowed to be.

• 2017, anonymous, quoted in Ludovica Price, "Serious Leisure In The Digital World: Exploring The Information Behaviour Of Fan Communities", thesis submitted to City, University of London, page 274:

  The Ao3 Terms and Conditions and the Wrangling First Principles both strictly prevent us from being gatekeepery. We can’t change tags, we can't tell users how to tag in any official capacity (“describe not proscribe”).

• 2018, Harjit Bagga, quoted in Riki Lane, "'We Are Here to Help': Who Opens the Gate for Surgeries", TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1 May 2018, page 219:

  Collaboration is much greater [now]. But it’s still a bit slow. . . .Unfortunately. . . . It’s still gatekeepery, but slightly less.

• 2018, anonymous, quoted in Carrie Gould, "The increasing use of permanent exclusion by primary schools: a thematic analysis of the perceptions of school staff and Educational Psychologists", thesis submitted to the University of Bristol, page 112:

  What I like about our private Educational Psychologist is that she is not afraid to say exactly what she thinks. You know, this child, I believe, has these kind of difficulties and I recommend that she needs to or he needs to. And that’s, although it’s kind of gatekeepery, it’s more than that, because then you realise well actually this is going to help this child because this will engage other services.

• 2019, Charlie Jane Anders, "I'll have you know", MIT Technology Review, Volume 122, Number 5, September/October 2019, page 83:

  Seems like gender transition has gotten easier and less gatekeepery since the last time El looked into it.

• 2020, Emily Kempf, quoted in Meggie Gates, "Blood, ink, and tears", Chicago Reader, 16 January 2020, page 11:

  "There's this gatekeeper-y, bully, 'protect the tradition at all cost' attitude," Kempf says. "It's not gendered, it's a girl or guy. A guy came up to me when I was bartending and after he learned I stick and poked [a form of tattooing], he was very rude to me. I was like, why is he so mad, I'm not doing anything wrong."

• 2020, Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, unnumbered page:

  This was one of those gatekeepery anecdotes that you needed an English/Posh Git dictionary to make any sense of.

• 2020, Maren Jane Hancock, "Stereo/Types: Canadian Women DJs Sound Off", dissertation submitted to York University, page 180:

  In 2015, Chhavi Nanda, aka Chippy Non-stop, held the first Intersessions DJ workshop geared towards womxn and non-binary folks in Vancouver; notably, she was inspired in large part due to the “gatekeeper-y” older men” (Thomas 2020) that dominated the Vancouver scene at that time.