Fine, M;
Torre, ME;
Frost, DM;
Cabana, AL;
(2018)
Special thematic section on "rethinking health and social justice activism in changing times": Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
, 6
(2)
pp. 608-630.
10.5964/jspp.v6i2.905.
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Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between exposure to structural injustice, experiences of social discrimination, psychological well being, physical health, and engagement in activist solidarities for a large, racially diverse and inclusive sample of 5,860 LGBTQ/Gender Expansive youth in the United States. Through a participatory action research design and a national survey created by an intergenerational research collective, the “What’s Your Issue?” survey data are used to explore the relationships between injustice, discrimination and activism; to develop an analysis of how race and gender affect young people’s vulnerabilities to State violence (in housing, schools and by the police), and their trajectories to activism, and to amplify a range of “intimate activisms” engaged by LGBTQ/GE youth with powerful adults outside their community, and with often marginalized peers within. The essay ends with a theoretical appreciation of misrecognition as structural violence; activism as a racialized and gendered response to injustice, and an elaborated archive of “intimate activisms” engaged with dominant actors and within community, by LGBTQ/GE youth who have been exiled from home, school, state protection and/or community and embody, nevertheless, “willful subjectivities”.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Special thematic section on "rethinking health and social justice activism in changing times": Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.5964/jspp.v6i2.905 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.905 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Participatory action research; LGBTQ; identities; activism; youth; solidarity; health; discrimination |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072398 |
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