Research Rodeo 7
Hello everyone, and Happy Thursday. And for my Jewish followers, Happy Purim! My family spent Sunday making hamantaschen, and my 3 year old had a great time helping! There has been a lot of interesting research that has just come out so let’s get started with another Research Rodeo (and if you want copies of these articles, please let me know and I am happy to share).
Greenwood et al. (2024) School of social welfare transgender justice group: student-led advocacy to promote justice and equity for gender diverse college students This article focuses on the creation of a transgender and gender diverse (TGD) student advocacy group, focusing on having students identify their own needs from the university. As can be seen below, the group did a lot during their first year. Not included is they also created a student-only group for TGD students. Importantly, the group is student-focused and student-led, allowing TGD students to be the ones who decide what is needed. Working with faculty, students can learn how to create advocacy programs that are effective and focused. For nonprofits, this can be used outside the university to help LGBTQIA+ children learn about advocacy and how to fight for their own rights. It is also important, when providing support for LGBTQIA+ people, to have them lead on what is the needs of the community.
Chaney & Mason (2024) Queering recovery: A proposed model for LGBTQ+-affirmative relapse prevention This article looks at the unique issues that LGBTQIA+ individuals face and how these societal pressures may put them at a higher risk for drug and alcohol abuse. Specifically, uniquely LGBTQIA+ issues, such as queer family issues, heterosexism and cissexism (both internalized and societal), and adverse LGBTQIA+ childhood experiences all add to the high risk for drug and alcohol abuse within the community. Chaney and Mason propose queering the AFFIRM (Audit, Fortify, Figure Out, Interrupt, Review/Refine, Make Connections) model of treatment for working with queer individuals. By queering each part of this model, the authors ask what are the unique issues that LGBTQIA+ individuals face and how can queer culture and experiences help/hinder each part of recovery. For nonprofits, what this article reminds us is that when providing treatment, there are uniquely LGBTQIA+ experiences which need to be incorporated. Furthermore, when people are working with queer people, their own viewpoints and perspectives on queerness should be interrogated.
Denton (2023) “Some Days It’s the Best Thing . . . Some Days It’s the Worst”: Gay College Men Living With HIV Navigating the Meanings of AIDS Though it is not talked about as much as it used to be, HIV is still impacting the queer community. There is still a stigma connected with HIV; indeed the drag queen Q in last week’s drag race talked about the stigma they have faced being HIV positive. In this article, we can see the stigma that people with HIV still face, including with unsupportive family and potential partners rejecting him because of his status. The stigma comes from both within and outside the queer community. For nonprofits, it is important to remember that HIV and AIDS still impacts the community and, furthermore, people may experience stigma from outside and inside the community, leading to isolation on multiple fronts.
Dutta & Srinivasan (2024) “Inclusion for LGBTQ talent: a practice theory approach” In this article, Dutta and Srinivasan explore what leads to organizations to create a more inclusive environment. Specifically, when an organization has regulatory pressures, market pressures, societal pressures, leadership, collaboration and partnership, and cisgender allyship. All of these impacts why organizations aim to be a more inclusive environment for LGBTQIA+ individuals. This leads to the question of is your organization inclusive and, importantly, what outside or inside influences can help lead to your organization being more inclusive.
I hope you have found these articles as interesting as I have. There is a lot of fantastic research which has been coming out (I am admittedly falling behind in reading all of it) and I love sharing it with you all!