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It is #PRIDE2020 
and, like last year, I will be doing a different academic article or book every day. This year, I want to look at #LGBTQ intersectionality. We are a diverse community, which means diverse needs. I will focus on allied fields and what we can learn from them.
and, like last year, I will be doing a different academic article or book every day. This year, I want to look at #LGBTQ intersectionality. We are a diverse community, which means diverse needs. I will focus on allied fields and what we can learn from them.
1. Navigating Community Institutions: Black Transgender Women’s Experiences in Schools, the Criminal Justice System, and Churches by Graham in Sexuality Research and Social Policy looks at this populations interaction with these systems. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-014-0144-y
All of these systems are important in #PublicAdministration and #SocialWork and this study looks at how interventions can focus on use of transgender appropriate and sensitive language, prevention of physical and sexual assaults, and anti-discrimination measures
2. There is surprisingly little on Black transgender experience in the lit that doesn't focus on AIDS! We need to be able to center the Black transgender experience (tomorrow comes statistics!!!!) as a unique #lgbtq experience.
I like this article from Irvine from @YouthBreakOUT in Southwestern Law Review "You can't run from the police: Developing a feminist criminology that incorporates black transgender women" PA & SW have a lot to learn. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/swulr44&div=36&id=&page=
3. Not technically an academic article, but @HRC has an important paper on anti-trans violence. I have added three parts which really highlight the interactions they have with police and with discrimination in general.
People who identify as Black and transgender experience higher levels of homelessness, discrimination, and issues with dealing with police. These findings are not surprising, but not talked about enough in the #LGBTQ community.
4. Today I chose "“Blocking” and “Filtering”: a Commentary on Mobile Technology, Racism, and the Sexual Networks of Young Black MSM (YBMSM)" for a couple of reasons. First, it deals with racism within the LGBTQ community, especially around apps. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-018-0493-y
But also, it deals with sexual networks. One thing I have found in #publichealth research is sexual networks of LGBTQ people focus on HIV and other STIs. But in the queer community, sexual networks are also a network of friends and support.
To better understand queer culture and how LGBTQ people, especially of color, interact with health orgs, we need to have a stronger understanding of what sexual networks mean to different people within the community.
4. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health: "Resilience in Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: A Critical Review of the Literature". What I like about this study is it creates a focus on LGBTQ POC research in #socialwork. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19359705.2013.828343
5. During the weekend, I want to highlight LGBTQ nonprofits. Today, let's talk about @blacktransusa. They focus on inequality and supporting the black trans community. Their fb group has an amazing set of resources. Check them out! https://blacktrans.org/
6. Today, Brown Boi Project ( @brownboiproject). They work towards questioning masculinity and helping #LGBTQ people of color become leaders. They offer two retreats a year to leaders of color and have done amazing work.
7. When Black + Lesbian + Woman ≠ Black Lesbian Woman: The Methodological Challenges of Qualitative and Quantitative Intersectionality Research in Sex Roles. This article questions how to really understand intersectionality when doing research https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-008-9400-z
To understand the LGBTQ community, we need better research into intersectionalities. We are a diverse community, and that diversity impacts the way we interact with the heterosexual community and within our own community.
9. “Once You’ve Blended the Cake, You Can’t Take the Parts Back to the Main Ingredients”: Black Gay and Bisexual Men’s Descriptions and Experiences of Intersectionality by Bowleg. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-012-0152-4
If you are doing any sort of intersectionality research, take a look at this piece. It explores how social processes in multiple communities shape intersectional identities.
10. I have mostly been doing articles but I want to add a book today: Queer Indigenous Studies
Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. We don't talk enough about Indigenous studies in #nonprofit or PA literature in general https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/queer-indigenous-studies
Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. We don't talk enough about Indigenous studies in #nonprofit or PA literature in general https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/queer-indigenous-studies
Nor in #LGBTQ studies. This book provides a much needed dialogue into what it means to be both Indigenous and LGBTQ and shows how we need to move beyond eurocentric understandings of sexual orientation gender identity.
11. “Invisible During My Own Crisis”: Responses of LGBT People of Color to the Orlando Shooting in Journal of Homosexuality by Ramirez, Gonzelz, & Galupo. It forces us to question how we talk about the LGBTQ community and how do we make sure we are inclusive
especially during a time of tragedy and stress. One issue is that the white gay male has become the "norm". How do we move forward and celebrate these intersectionalities?
12. “Gay Equals White”? Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Identities and Attitudes Toward LGBT Individuals Among College Students at a Bible Belt University looks at various views on homosexuality and the way we see LGBTQ people. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2017.1378309?casa_token=X6JzLABHaY8AAAAA:fYSZYd92bVTbmiou9f5dZK_m9PEILVejKQmcUIleG99HnUf1OVy_Liknb7rLiEOAg7uYfGh0Ttk
13. For NPOs for the weekend: WeRNative ( @weRnative) does work on LGBTQ and two-spirit support for Native American youth. https://www.wernative.org/my-relationships/sexual-health/lgbt-two-spirit
14. For NPOs for the weekend: Native Youth Sexual Health Network ( @NYSHN) work to support Native American Youth, including LGBTQ and two-spirit youth, with a focus on advocacy.
15. Identity Processes, Threat, and Interpersonal Relations: Accounts From British Muslim Gay Men uses interviews to understand how British Muslim Gays build identity and interact with the gay community, esp. gay white men. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918369.2012.638551
16. The Lies We Have Been Told: On (Homo) Sexuality in Africa. We often talk about homosexuality from a eurocentric viewpoint, and as a field, our research on African nations and cultures, in general, is lacking. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.58.1.55?seq=1
This article looks at how social constructions of same-sex attraction has been talked about differently in African cultures. Some of my work that I am doing right now will emphasize that when we talk about LGBTQ issues, we need to remember the cultural context.
17. Nairobi is a shot of whisky: queer (Ob) scenes in the city We often look at Africa as 1) a monolith and 2) as all homophobic. But there is diversity on the continent and queer culture. This article looks at queer spaces in Nairobi https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2018.1484709
18. Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities. This book is from 1998 but brings in important points as we study homosexuality, we are using western terms. Bringing in local language is important for studying #LGBTQ issues https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Wives-Female-Husbands-Studies-African-Homosexualities/dp/031221216X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=215B9MG8IMZTU&dchild=1&keywords=Boy-Wives+and+Female+Husbands%3A+Studies+of+African+Homosexualities&qid=1592522161&sprefix=zoes+ghana+kitchen%2Caps%2C900&sr=8-1
