Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition
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 th...
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| description | 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”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c1817ef53aa43fa9669058b82d052172023-01-02T00:45:01ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyJournal of Social and Political Psychology2195-33252018-12-016260863010.5964/jspp.v6i2.905jspp.v6i2.905Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical MisrecognitionMichelle Fine0María Elena Torre1David M. Frost2Allison L. Cabana3Public Science Project and Department of Critical Social/Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USAPublic Science Project and Department of Critical Social/Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USADepartment of Social Psychology, University College London, London, United KingdomPublic Science Project and Department of Critical Social/Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USAThis 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”.http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/905participatory action researchLGBTQidentitiesactivismyouthsolidarityhealthdiscrimination |
| spellingShingle | Michelle Fine María Elena Torre David M. Frost Allison L. Cabana Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition Journal of Social and Political Psychology participatory action research LGBTQ identities activism youth solidarity health discrimination |
| title | Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition |
| title_full | Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition |
| title_fullStr | Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition |
| title_short | Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition |
| title_sort | queer solidarities new activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition |
| topic | participatory action research LGBTQ identities activism youth solidarity health discrimination |
| url | http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/905 |
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