The Art of Masked Advocacy: The Care of the Self of Gay College Men Living with HIV

Denton, Jr.; Abes, Elisa S.

doi:10.1353/csd.2022.0033

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“…Reading critical whiteness theories, premised upon Black and other scholars of colors’ conceptualizations of racist social formations, we re-turn Rory’s productively interfering question: “What do I have to hold onto if it’s not that image?” In this undulating wave’s pattern, we wonder, how do enduring discourses of development create the conditions for her and other young adults to possess self-positionings and to “polish and present” her image in a way that, in the instance of representational logics, unevenly and problematically affords her racially “neutral” visibility and unearned credibility? Reading these material-discursive patterns through “third wave” frameworks (e.g., Allen et al, 2022; Denton, 2019; Okello, 2020; Reyes & Tauala, 2019), we wonder how her word- less yet tacitly perceptible ways might make differently legible the slippage of the previously “solid idea of an identity” expressed by Rory. To what did her “solid idea of an identity” stick?…”

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Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

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Becker

White

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article shares what surfaced during diffractive analysis of data from a participatory arts-engaged research project called Life Lines. Drawing on material feminism, studio-inquiry practices were designed to assist young adults in creatively speculating alongside researchers over varied conceptualizations of identity, including dominant explanations centering on cognitive development and alternative framings emphasizing materiality’s role in subjective formation. Lines as both culturally inscriptive “engines of theory” and as materially sensitive artistic inquiry practices were enlisted to open new insights about how it is for young adult bodies to sustain developmentalism’s “cruel optimism” about coherence, stability, and progression.

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Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

Clark/Keefe

Becker

White

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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Creating Queer Epistemologies and Embodied Knowledge Through Narrative and Arts-Based Research

Denton,

Cain

2023

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research

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Queer people historically shared personal and queer tales, recounted stories of queer joy to maintain hope, and whispered warnings through anecdotes of hardship. Further, queer artists contributed to the shaping of social trends and values through their creations. In this article, we explore how blending the practices of storytelling and artmaking can provide a powerful way to conduct research, co-construct knowledge, and sit within complex epistemological spaces with queer participants. We provide brief descriptions and reflections of our experiences conducting scholarship through the combination of narrative inquiry and arts-based research as queer researchers working with queer participants. Ultimately, we argue that combining these methods allows us to access new, deeper meanings alongside our queer participants.

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Supporting Queer and Trans Students Amidst a Rise in Anti Queer and Trans Legislation and Policies

Lemerand,

Duran

2023

LGBTQIA Students in Higher Education

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Despite scholarship describing college campuses as becoming more affirming of queer and trans students, queer and trans people continue to be under attack legislatively, recently in growing intensity, such as Florida's “Don't Say Gay” law. These political and legal movements will have deleterious effects on these communities for years to come. However, queer and trans communities have always fought for their existence in the face of cisheterosexist violence. In this chapter, the scholars contend higher education professionals at every level have potential to be advocates of and support the holistic well-being and academic success of queer and trans students. Building off decades of traditions, theories, and strategies of activists and changemakers, namely those from multiply marginalized communities, the authors highlight three central ideas for those working in postsecondary education: 1) supporting students' positive meaning making of their identities, 2) creating and fostering counterspaces/counternarratives, and 3) collectively organizing for liberation.

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The Art of Masked Advocacy: The Care of the Self of Gay College Men Living with HIV

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Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

Creating Queer Epistemologies and Embodied Knowledge Through Narrative and Arts-Based Research

Supporting Queer and Trans Students Amidst a Rise in Anti Queer and Trans Legislation and Policies

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