The study of gender and sexuality within online safety, privacy and security is critical to addressing gendered online harms such as intimate partner violence, image-based sexual abuse and other tech-facilitated harms. The Gender, Online Safety, Sexuality (GOSS) workshop aims to facilitate the sharing of ideas, stimulate conversations, and build collaborations - dedicated to creating space for current perspectives and future directions related to gender, sexuality, and online safety. GOSS seeks to bridge the social sciences with robust technical understandings of security and privacy - for enduring online safety for people of all genders and sexualities, and help to co-create meaningful steps to structure this subfield. By nurturing an interdisciplinary environment, this workshop aims to create a network of scholars committed to addressing a combination of:
There will be two types of submissions accepted for GOSS 2025, resulting in different types of presentations during the workshop:
One-page position papers (excluding optional references) should detail relevant previous research you have completed or novel perspectives on gender and sexuality at the intersection of online safety, privacy, and security, or otherwise specify your interest for the workshop. You will be asked if you are comfortable with sharing your position papers in advance of the workshop, so attendees can familiarize themselves with the other attendees. You will also be asked if you would be interested in presenting a lightning talk on the content of your position paper. Position paper submissions should not be anonymous. Upon review by the program committee members, up to five participants will be invited to give lightning talks during the workshop.
Two-page extended abstracts of work-in-progress research should detail ongoing work on gender and sexuality at the intersection of online safety, privacy, and security. The goal of these submissions is to enable researchers (including early career researchers or at later career stages) to get feedback on work-in-progress research from the GOSS community. We aim to create a diverse, inclusive, and confidential space for workshop attendees to solicit feedback and gather ideas. Seven WIP submissions will be invited for presentation at during the workshop. Extended abstracts of WIPs may be anonymous, but be advised that presentations during the workshop will not be anonymous.
The titles of the five lightning talks and seven WIPs will be made available on the workshop website, and the position papers and extended abstracts agreed for sharing will be accessible on a shared repository. All participants must register for the workshop and at least one author of a submission must attend the workshop.
Submissions do not need to follow any submission templates. You will also be asked to indicate whether you are comfortable with us sharing your submission in advance of the workshop.
Submissions should be submitted as a PDF via the GOSS 2025 HotCRP: https://goss2025.usenix.hotcrp.com