Collective Trauma in Queer Communities

Kelly, Maura; Lubitow, Amy; Town, Matthew; Mercier, Amanda

doi:10.1007/s12119-020-09710-y

Cited by 19 publications

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“…In other words, it seemed to be a universal understanding among participants that queer people experience trauma and victimization at disproportionately high rates. Research has discussed the relationship between structural oppression and victimization of LGBTQ+ people and subsequent collective trauma (Kelly et al, 2020), but has not examined sexual victimization and its specific contribution to collective trauma. Implications from the current project suggest that experiences of sexual oppression and violation may be particularly salient to collective trauma in the queer community.…”

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Sexual Consent and Communication Among the Sexual Minoritized: The Role of Heteronormative Sex Education, Trauma, and Dual Identities

Heer

Brown

Cheney

2021

Feminist Criminology

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Prior research and the #MeToo movement have recognized the complexities of sexual consent and how it contributes to experiences of sexual violence. A heteronormative perspective often dominates discussions on sexual violence at the expense of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual minoritized individuals’ (LGBTQ+) experiences. Utilizing focus groups with LGBTQ+ people to discuss sexual consent, themes relating to sex education, defining sex in queer relationships, trauma and victimization, and overlapping gender and sexual orientation identities emerged. Findings are presented in the context of feminist and queer theoretical perspectives with particular focus on power inequity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual Consent and Communication Among the Sexual Minoritized: The Role of Heteronormative Sex Education, Trauma, and Dual Identities

Heer

Brown

Cheney

2021

Feminist Criminology

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“…Each of the authors described both the importance of community to our identities and our tensions in arriving at mainstream queer community spaces. While externally there can be a perception of “queer community” as a singular place in which all non‐cis hetero people interact peacefully, in practice queer communities—especially those built and centered around white cis gay men—often perpetuate misogyny, transmisogyny, transphobia, biphobia, racism, colonialism, classism, ableism, body shaming, and other entangled dynamics of oppression (e.g., Ghabrial, 2017; Kelly et al, 2020; Tran et al., 2022). Community is a complex phenomenon that can be positive and negative, accepting and rejecting.…”

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Identity as a compass when navigating uncharted equitable spaces: Our queer evaluation practices

Hartman

Hoessler

Tom

et al. 2022

New Drctns Evaluation

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Alternative approaches within evaluation increasingly allow space for evaluators to bring themselves to their work. As queers, we are gifted‐partially as a necessity for our survival‐with deeper understandings of and navigational capacities to work within complexity. Furthermore, existing as queer empowers us to think and operate outside what is the norm, known, familiar and comfortable, and thus enables us to challenge normative systems for purposes of social change. Our chapter offers situated insight into what queer evaluation practices look like and empowers us to practice bringing ourselves into different contexts, including uncharted spaces. We illustrate principles of queer evaluation through cases of our unique identities, contexts, landscapes, and evaluation experiences, within a process that is iterative, dialogic, and relational. We argue that the exploration of ourselves is critical as evaluators and invite readers to wander alongside us while actively searching their identities. Rather than hiding these biases and perspectives, we believe in the importance of knowing oneself and our connections to the histories of those who came before, which serve as our guides. Only from this point can we begin to unravel the unknown into the known and transform the inequitable into the equitable that has yet to exist. We argue that by embracing our identities we are better able to navigate the complexities that exist in our work and deepen our understanding of the contexts around us.

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“…An important reason for understanding the historical and cultural landscape that has shaped the GSD community of today, is that these historical and generational traumas (Kelly et al, 2020) are passed down in the minds, hearts and psychologies of contemporary GSD people from those that came before. The narratives from historical and generational traumas reify what is allowed and permissible in society:…”

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It's not just in my head: An intersectional, social and systems‐based framework in gender and sexuality diversity

Dunlop

Lea

2022

Psychol Psychother

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Background:The mental health and well-being of gender and sexuality diverse (GSD) people needs to be understood within a socio-political and cultural context. Aims: In this paper, an intersectional, social and system-based framework for understanding the mental health and well-being of GSD people is presented, for practitioners within this field to consider GSD mental health experiences and challenges within context. Materials and Methods: Starting with a consideration of the current landscape of understanding, pivotal theories and understandings within the field are outlined. The need for a framework that centralises intersectionality and broader systemic considerations is presented. Results:The framework provided has an explicit focus on four key features: (1) intersectionality, (2) institutions, policies and laws, (3) people and groups and (4) social stories. Discussion: Consideration of each of these 'circles of influence' can help practitioners to understand the multi-layered and intersectional experience of GSD folk and allows for an understanding of potential intervention at both an individual and systemic and societal level. Conclusion: Use of such a framework in practice goes above and beyond what is currently available by centralising the role and impact of such wider systemic variables through an intersectional lens. The framework can be applicable worldwide given its flexibility to consider and apply pertinent policies, laws, people, groups and social stories within a particular country or culture.

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Collective Trauma in Queer Communities

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Sexual Consent and Communication Among the Sexual Minoritized: The Role of Heteronormative Sex Education, Trauma, and Dual Identities

Sexual Consent and Communication Among the Sexual Minoritized: The Role of Heteronormative Sex Education, Trauma, and Dual Identities

Identity as a compass when navigating uncharted equitable spaces: Our queer evaluation practices

It's not just in my head: An intersectional, social and systems‐based framework in gender and sexuality diversity

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