Dr Damien Riggs

Position/s:Senior Lecturer
Social Work and Social Planning
Phone: +61 8 82012786
Email:
Location: Social Sciences South (341)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

After the completion of my PhD i undertook a three-year ARC funded postdoctoral fellowship before commencing in my role as a lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work at Flinders. I am currently the President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and the National Convenor of the Australian Psychological Society's interest group on gay and lesbian issues and the editor of its journal, the Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review. 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor Behaviour Sciences (Flinders)
  • Bachelor Social Sciences (Psychology Honours) (CSU)
  • Phd (Adelaide)

Honours, awards and grants

2010 Early Career Researcher Award, APS
2011 VC Early Career Research Award, Flinders

Key responsibilities

Honours Coordination (2011)
Topic Coordination

Teaching

Teaching interests

  • families, relationships and parenting
  • child protection
  • research methods
  • sexuality studies
  • race and whiteness

Topic Coordinator:

  • SOAD1010  Mental Health and Public Participation
  • SOAD3013  Child and Family Wellbeing
  • SOAD9218  Gender and Sexuality in Community, Mental Health and Public Policy Contexts

Research and supervision

Research interests

  • LGBTQ social science studies
  • foster care
  • experiences of known sperm donors
  • masculinities and parenting
  • social construction of childhood
  • experiences of refugee students in Australian schools

Publications

Books
Due, C. and Riggs, D. (2011). Representations of Indigenous Australians in the mainstream news media. Teneriffe QLD: Post Pressed. [online]. http://www.postpressed.com.au/book/representations-indigenous-australians-mainstreet-new-media/.
Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Becoming parent: Lesbians, gay men, and family. Queensland: Post Pressed.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Priscilla, (white) queen of the desert: Queer rights/race privilege. New York: Peter Lang.
Book chapters
Riggs, D. (2012). Ethical issues in LGBT couple and family therapy. In JJ Bigner & JL Wetchler, ed. Handbook of LGBT affirmative couple and family therapy. New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 421-432.
Riggs, D. (2012). Non-Indigenous Lesbians and Gay Men Caring for Indigenous Children: An Australian Case Study. In CN Phellas, ed. Researching non-heterosexual sexualities. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 201-214. [online]. http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=1751&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=323&title_id=10081&edition_id=10394.
Riggs, D. (2012). Talking about diverse genders and sexualities means talking about more than white middle-class queers. In Y Taylor, ed. Educational diversity: The subject of difference and different subjects. Basinstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-235. [online]. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=494513.
Riggs, D. and das Nair, R. (2012). Intersecting Identities. In R das Nair & C. Butler, ed. Intersectionality, sexuality and psychological therapies: Working with lesbian, gay and bisexual diversity. Chichester, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 9-30. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119967613.ch1.
Riggs, D. (2011). Perceptions of support among Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. In Morrison M, McDermott DT, Carrigan MA and Morrison TG, ed. Sexual minority research in the new millenium. Hauppauge, USA: Nova Publishers, pp. 93-106.

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Books
Due, C. and Riggs, D. (2011). Representations of Indigenous Australians in the mainstream news media. Teneriffe QLD: Post Pressed. [online]. http://www.postpressed.com.au/book/representations-indigenous-australians-mainstreet-new-media/.
Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Clarke, V., Ellis, S.J., Peel, E. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Becoming parent: Lesbians, gay men, and family. Queensland: Post Pressed.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Priscilla, (white) queen of the desert: Queer rights/race privilege. New York: Peter Lang.
Book chapters
Riggs, D. (2012). Ethical issues in LGBT couple and family therapy. In JJ Bigner & JL Wetchler, ed. Handbook of LGBT affirmative couple and family therapy. New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 421-432.
Riggs, D. (2012). Non-Indigenous Lesbians and Gay Men Caring for Indigenous Children: An Australian Case Study. In CN Phellas, ed. Researching non-heterosexual sexualities. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 201-214. [online]. http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=1751&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=323&title_id=10081&edition_id=10394.
Riggs, D. (2012). Talking about diverse genders and sexualities means talking about more than white middle-class queers. In Y Taylor, ed. Educational diversity: The subject of difference and different subjects. Basinstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-235. [online]. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=494513.
Riggs, D. and das Nair, R. (2012). Intersecting Identities. In R das Nair & C. Butler, ed. Intersectionality, sexuality and psychological therapies: Working with lesbian, gay and bisexual diversity. Chichester, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 9-30. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119967613.ch1.
Riggs, D. (2011). Angels and saints: The impact of lay understandings of foster care upon carers. In Jaworski, J.A., ed. Advances in sociology research. New York: Nova Publishers, pp. 217-228.
Riggs, D. (2011). Perceptions of support among Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. In Morrison M, McDermott DT, Carrigan MA and Morrison TG, ed. Sexual minority research in the new millenium. Hauppauge, USA: Nova Publishers, pp. 93-106.
Riggs, D.W. (2011). Elaborating a different yes, but: Complexities of race, sexuality and class in the counselling setting. In Anderson, S.K. & Middleton,V.A., ed. Explorations In Diversity: Examining Privilege And Oppression In A Multicultural Society. Belmont, USA: Brooks Cole, pp. 229-238.
Riggs, D. (2011). What about the children! Homophobia, accusations of pedophilia and the construction of childhood. In B Scherer and M Ball, ed. Queering Paradigms II: Interrogating agendas. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, pp. 245-258. [online]. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=59632&concordeid=430295.
Riggs, D. (2011). The racial politics of marriage: rights and relationships in colonial context. In V Marsh, ed. Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage. Melbourne, VIC: Clouds of Magellan, pp. 191-201. [online]. http://www.cloudsofmagellan.net/Speak_Now.html.
Due, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). The media proudly presents; Lessons from celebrity moms. In Lintott, S., ed. Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone: The Birth of Wisdom. UK: Wiley-VCH, pp. 191-201.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). Developing a responsible foster care praxis: Poly as a framework for examining power and propriety in family contexts. In Barker, M. & Langdridge, D., ed. Understanding non-monogamies. New York: Routledge, pp. 188-200.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). Gay Fathers. In Steinberg, S.R., Kehler, M. & Cornish, L., ed. Boy culture: An encyclopedia. Conneticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Durrheim, K., Hook, D. and Riggs, D.W. (2009). Race and racism. In Fox,D., Prilleltensky, I. & Austin, S., ed. Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications, pp. 197-214.
Riggs, D.W. (2009). Race privilege and its role in the disappearance of birth families and adoptive children in debates over non-heterosexual adoption in Australia. In Ceridwen Spark and Denise Cuthbert, ed. Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia. North Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 161-175. [online]. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4738995.
Riggs, D.W. (2009). Poppadoms, princesses and privilege?: colonial relations in action in the celebrity big brother household. In Clarke, R., ed. Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 209-224.
Riggs, D.W. (2009). Not playing by the rules?: a manifesto on biology, kinship and parenting. In And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, And Our Unexpected Families, ed. And baby makes more: Known donors, queer And baby makes more: Known donors, queer parents, and our unexpected families. Toronto: Insomniac Press, pp. 171-178.
Riggs, D.W. (2009). Essentialist and constructionist positions. In Hawley, J.C., ed. LGBTQ America: An encyclopedia. Conneticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 338-344.
Lovell, J. and Riggs, D.W. (2009). Constructions of difference in children's storybooks and their implication in bullying behaviours. In Barbara Baird and Damien W. Riggs, ed. The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations and Knowledges. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 155-175.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). Attachment theory as a practice of heterosexism: Resisting the psychologisation of lesbian and gay foster carers. In Jessica Nathanson and Laura Camille Tuley, ed. Mother knows best: Talking back to the experts.Toronto: Demeter Press, pp. 148-157.
Riggs, D.W. and Augoustinos, M. (2008). The fine line between compensation and taking advantage: A discursive analysis of race privilege. In Rob Ranzijn, Keith McConnochie and Wendy Nolan, ed. Psychology and Indigenous Australians: Effective Teaching and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 43-54. [online]. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/docs/research/2008_Research_report.pdf.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Recognising race in LGBT psychology: Privilege, power & complicity. In V. Clarke & E. Peel, ed. Out in psychology: Privilege, power and complicity. London: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 59-76. [online]. http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/42981.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Psychoanalysis as a postcolonising reading practice: Towards a discursive psychological reading of racism-as-repression. In Riggs, D.W., ed. Taking up the challenge?: critical race and whiteness studies in a postcolonising nation. Belair, SA: Crawford House Publishing, pp. 347-365. [online]. http://www.damienriggs.com/chapters.htm.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Possessive investments at the intersection of gender, race and sexuality: Lesbian and gay rights in a postcolonising nation. In M. Allen and R. K. Dhawan, ed. Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. New Delhi: Prestige Books, pp. 111-123. [online]. http://www.damienriggs.com/privilege.htm.
Augoustinos, M. and Riggs, D.W. (2007). Representing us and them: Constructing white identities in everyday talk. In G. Moloney & I. Walker, ed. Social Representations and Identity: Content, process and power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-130. [online]. http://reader.eblib.com.ezproxy.flinders.edu.au/Reader.aspx?p=358569&o=478&u=eVQyQrnu%2fIS%2f2ec9fwexOw%3d%3d&t=1274160279&h=D9435AAFF9BB1C27E1B32590n.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Proving the case: Psychology, subjectivity and representations of lesbian and gay parents in the media. In L. Casta?eda & S. Campbell, ed. News and News and sexuality: Media portraits of diversity. London: Sage Publications, pp. 235-256.
Riggs, D.W. and Briggs, L. (2004). Talking about heterosexism: Politics, complicity and identification. In Riggs, D.W. & Walker, G., ed. Out in the Antipodes: Australian and New Zealand perspectives on gay and lesbian issues in psychology. Perth: Brightfire, pp. 416-434.
Refereed journal articles
Riggs, D. (2012). Anti-Asian sentiment amongst a sample of white Australian men on gaydar. Sex Roles. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-012-0119-5.
Palasinski, M. and Riggs, D.W. (2012). Young white British men and knife-carrying in public: Discourses of masculinity, protection and vulnerability. Critical Criminology, 20(4), pp.463-476. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-012-9161-4.
McLean, S., Riggs, D.W., Kettler, L. and Delfabbro, P.H. (2012). Challenging behaviour in out-of-home care: Use of attachment ideas in practice. Child and Family Social Work. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00825.x.
McLean, S., Kettler, L., Delfabbro, P. and Riggs, D. (2012). Frameworks for understanding challenging behaviour in out-of-home care. Clinical Psychologist, 16(2), pp.72-81. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9552.2011.00037.x.
Due, C., Connellan, K. and Riggs, D. (2012). Surveillance, security and violence in a mental health ward: An ethnographic study of an Australian purpose-built unit. Surveillance and Society, 10(3/4). [online]. http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/oz-health.
Riggs, D., Webber, K. and Fell, G. (2012). Australian undergraduate psychology students' atitudes towards trans people. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 8(1), pp.52-62. [online]. http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/GroupContent.aspx?ID=4498.
Cadwallader, J. and Riggs, D. (2012). The state of the union: Toward a biopolitics of marriage. M/C Journal, 15(6). [online]. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/585.
Riggs, D. (2012). Intercountry adoption and the inappropriate/d other: Refusing the disappearance of birth families. Social Policy and Society, 11(3), pp.455-464. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746412000127.
Riggs, D. (2012). Paradoxes of visibility: Lesbian and gay parents in the Australian print media. Jindal Global Law Review, 45(1), pp.201-218. [online]. http://www.jgls.edu.in/JindalGlobalLawReview/CurrentIssue.htm.
Riggs, D. and Due, C. (2012). Representations of Surrogacy in Submissions to a Parliamentary Inquiry in New South Wales. Techne - research in philosophy and technology, 16(1), pp.71-84. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne20121617.
Riggs, D. and Willsmore, S. (2012). Experiences of disenfranchised grief arising from the unplanned termination of a foster placement: An exploratory South Australian study. Adoption and Fostering, 36(2), pp.57-66. [online]. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/baaf/afj/2012/00000036/00000002/art00006.
Due, C. and Riggs, D. (2012). The terms on which child abuse is made to matter: Media representations of the Aurukun case. Australian Feminist Studies, 27(71), pp.3-18. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.648256.
Riggs, D. and Scholz, B. (2011). The value and meaning attached to genetic relatedness among Australian sperm donors. New Genetics and Society, 30(1), pp.41-58. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2011.552299.
Riggs, D. and Russell, L. (2011). Characteristics of men willing to act as sperm donors in the context of identity-release legislation. Human Reproduction, 26(1), pp.266-272. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deq314.
Riggs, D. (2011). Loving otherwise: race, relationality and respectability in Wilkinson v Kitzinger. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, 7(2), pp.2-17. [online]. http://www.acrawsa.org.au/files/ejournalfiles/174V7.2_7.pdf.
Riggs, D. (2011). Australian lesbian and gay foster carers negotiating the child protection system: strengths and challenges. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8(3), pp.215-226. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-011-0059-9.
Riggs, D. (2011). ?Let's Go to the Movies?: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 7(3), pp.297-312. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2011.564948.
Palasinski, M., Riggs, D. and Zebialowicz, A. (2011). You dont do it in public': racism, respectability and responsibility in Celebrity Big Brother. Celebrity Studies, 2(2), pp.164-177. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2011.574857.
Due, C. and Riggs, D. (2011). Freedom to Roam? Use of Schoolyard Space in Primary Schools with New Arrivals Programs. International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2(1), pp.1-16. [online]. http://www.education.monash.edu.au/research/irecejournal/issues/2011/irece2011-vol2-no1-due.pdf.
Riggs, D.W. (2011). Queering evidence-based practice. Psychology and Sexuality, 2(1), pp.87-98. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2011.536319.
Riggs, D.W. and Due, C. (2011). (Un)Common Ground?: English Language Acquisition and Experiences of Exclusion Amongst New Arrival Students in South Australian Primary Schools. Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power, 18(3), pp.273-290. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2011.635373.
Due, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Friendship, exclusion and power: A study of two South Australian schools with New Arrivals Programs. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 35, pp.73-80.
Due, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Playing at the edges: The use of playground spaces in South Australian primary schools with New Arrivals Programmes. Social Geographies, 5, pp.25-37. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sg-5-25-2010.
Riggs, D.W., Delfabbro, P.H. and Augoustinos, M. (2010). Foster fathers and carework: Engaging alternate models of parenting. Fathering, 8(1), pp.24-36. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/fth.0801.24.
Riggs, D.W. and Fell, G.R. (2010). Teaching cultural competency for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans clients. Psychology Learning and Teaching Journal, 9(1), pp.30-38.
Riggs, D.W. and Due, C. (2010). The management of accusations of racism in Celebrity Big Brother. Discourse and Society, 21(3), pp.257-271. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926509360652.
Riggs, D.W. and Due, C. (2010). Gay men, race privilege, and surrogacy in India. Outskirts, 22.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). Pragmatic imbalances: Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. Law in Context, 28(1), pp.65-77.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). On accountability: Towards a white middle-class queer post identity politics identity politics. Ethnicities, 10, pp.344-357. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796810372300.
Riggs, D.W. (2010). Im not gay, but my four mums are': Psychological knowledge and lesbian-headed families. Radical Psychology, 9(1).
Due, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2010). Representing Australian land. Mainstream media reporting of Native Title. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 3(1), pp.26-36.
Riggs, D.W., Delfabbro, P.H. and Augoustinos, M. (2009). Negotiating foster families: Identification and desire. British Journal of Social Work, 39(5), pp.789-806. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcm156.
Riggs, D.W., Augoustinos, M. and Delfabbro, P.H. (2009). Role of foster family belonging in recovery from child maltreatment. Australian Psychologist, 44(3), pp.166-173. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050060903147075.
Riggs, D.W. and Patterson, A. (2009). The smiling faces of contemporary homophobia and transphobia. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 5(3), pp.185-190.
Riggs, D.W. and Augoustinos, M. (2009). Institutional stressors and individual strengths: Policy and practice directions for working with Australian lesbian and gay foster carers. Practice: Social Work in Action, 21(2), pp.77-90. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503150902875919.
Riggs, D.W. (2009). The health and well-being implications of emotion work undertaken by gay sperm donors. Feminism and Psychology, 19(4), pp.517-533. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353509342844.
Due, C. and Riggs, D. (2009). Moving beyond English as a requirement to fit in: Considering refugee and migrant education in South Australia. Refuge, 26(2), pp.55-64. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2011.635373.
Riggs, D.W., King, D., Delfabbro, P.H. and Augoustinos, M. (2009). Children out of place?:  representations of foster care in the Australian news media. Journal of Children and Media, 3(3), pp.234-248. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482790902999918.
Riggs, D.W., Mclaren, S. and Mayes, A.S. (2009). Attitudes toward parenting in a lesbian and gay community convenience sample. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 13(1), pp.51-61. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19359700802480659.
Due, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2008). We grew here you flew here: Claims to home in the Cronulla riots. Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 16, pp.210-228. [online]. http://www.colloquy.monash.edu.au/issue016/due-riggs.pdf.
Fell, G.R., Mattiske, J.K. and Riggs, D.W. (2008). Challenging heteronormativity in psychological practice with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 4(2), pp.127-140. [online]. http://admin.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/GLIP%20Review%20Vol%204%20No%202.pdf.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). All the boys are straight: Heteronormativity in books on fathering and raising boys. THYMOS: The Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2(2), pp.186-202. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/thy/0202.186.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). Lesbian mothers, gay sperm donors, and community: Ensuring the wellbeing of children and families. Health Sociology Review, 17(3), pp.226-234.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). The blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies: Reading Freud in (be)hindsight. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 18, pp.131-139.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). Towards a non-indifferent account of child protection. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), pp.375-388.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). Using multinomial logistic regression analysis to develop a model of Australian gay and heterosexual sperm donors' motivations and beliefs. International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, 6(2), pp.106-123.
Riggs, D.W. (2008). White mothers, Indigenous families, and the politics of voice. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association eJournal, 4(1). [online]. http://www.damienriggs.com/pubs.pdf.
Riggs, D.W. and Delfabbro, P.H. (2008). Economics of care: Remuneration and recognition of foster carers. Journal of the Association For Research on Mothering, 10(1), pp.94-104.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Reassessing the foster-care system: examining the impact of heterosexism on lesbian and gay applicants. Hypatia, 22(1), pp.132-148. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01153.x.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Queer theory and its future in psychology: exploring issues of race privilege. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1(1), pp.39-52. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00033.x.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). Psychology, individualism and activism: Challenging discourses of equality with in the same-sex marriage debate. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 3(3), pp.185-194. [online]. https://admin.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/GLIP%20Review%20Vol%203%20No%203.pdf.
Riggs, D.W. (2007). On being acceptable: state sanction, race privilege and lesbian and gay parents. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7(1). [online]. http://reconstruction.eserver.org/071/riggs.shtml.
Barker, M., Hagger-Johnson, G., Hegarty, P., Hutchison, C. and Riggs, D.W. (2007). Responses from the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section to Crossley's Making sense of barebacking. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(3), pp.667-677. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466606X143199.
Riggs, D.W. and Augoustinos, M. (2007). Learning difference: Representations of diversity in storybooks for children of lesbian and gay parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 3(2 & 3), pp.133-156. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J461v03n02_06.
Riggs, D.W., Augoustinos, M. and Delfabbro, P.H. (2007). Basically its a recognition issue': Validating a foster parent identity. Family Matters, 76, pp.64-69. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=20072919;res=AGISPT.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). What's love got to do with it? Ambivalence and the national imaginary. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 16, pp.32-52.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). This reads like a conspiracy theory, or; Mundane heterosexism hurts too! Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review, 7, pp.310-313. [online]. http://www.bps.org.uk/content/lesbian-gay-psychology-review-vol-7-no-3-november-2006-special-feature-whats-different-about.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Serosameness or serodifference?: Resisting polarised discourses of identity and relationality in the context of HIV. Sexualities, 9(4), pp.409-422. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706068042.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Developmentalism and the rhetoric of best interests of the child: challenging heteronormative constructions of families and parenting in foster care. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 2(2), pp.57-73. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J461v02n02_03.
Riggs, D.W. (2006). Bodies at the border: Contingency, hegemony and materiality. Philament: An On-Line Journal of the Arts and Culture, 9, pp.59-74.
Riggs, D.W. and Choi, P.Y. (2006). Heterosexism, racism and psychology. Psychologist, 19(5), pp.288-291.
Riggs, D.W. and Walker, G.A. (2006). Queer(y)ing rights: Psychology, liberal individualism and colonisation. Australian Psychologist, 41(2), pp.95-103. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050060600578846.
Riggs, D.W. (2005). Caught `n `e Frame? Queer embodiment under heteropatriarchy. Philament: An On-Line Journal of the Arts and Culture, 7.
Riggs, D.W. (2005). Locating control: psychology and the cultural production of healthy subject positions. Culture Health and Sexuality, 7(2), pp.87-100. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691050412331291405.
Riggs, D.W. (2005). Who wants to be a good parent? Scientific representations of lesbian and gay parents in the news media. M/C Journal, 8(1). [online]. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0502/05-riggs.php.
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