  Social interaction across multiple online platforms is a challenge for gender
and sexual minorities (GSM) due to the stigmatization they face, which
increases the complexity of their self-presentation decisions. These online
interactions and identity disclosures can be more complicated for GSM in
non-Western contexts due to consequentially different audiences and perceived
affordances by the users, and limited baseline understanding of the conflation
of these two with local norms and the opportunities they practically represent.
Using focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews, we engaged with
61 \textit{Hijra} individuals from Bangladesh, a severely stigmatized GSM from
south Asia, to understand their overall online participation and disclosure
behaviors through the lens of personal social media ecosystems. We find that
along with platform audiences, affordances, and norms, participant
skill/knowledge, and cultural influences also impact navigation through
multiple platforms, resulting in differential benefits from privacy features.
This impacts how Hijra perceive online spaces, and shape their
self-presentation and disclosure behaviors over time.
  Content Warning: This paper discusses graphic contents (e.g. rape and sexual
harassment) related to Hijra.
