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4. Community-Based Participatory Research with Invisible, Geographically-Dispersed Communities: Partnering with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Communities on the California Central Coast.

Author

Oaks, Laury, Israel, Tania, Conover, Kristin J., Cogger, Alise, and Avellar, Todd Raymond

Subjects
*COMMUNITY-based participatory research, *LGBTQ+ people, *TRANSGENDER communities, *LGBTQ+ communities, *PSYCHOLOGY of LGBTQ+ people, *SOCIAL surveys
Abstract

This article reports on the community-based participatory research (CBPR) process of a 3.5-year study documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community members' perceptions of local LGBTQ communities on the Central Coast of California. This three-phase study consisted of online and paper-and-pen surveys to analyze community strengths, challenges, priorities, and feelings of connection; collaborative interpretation of survey results through community forums; and a regional "LGBTQ Summit" to envision and initiate data-based actions to address community priorities. The focus throughout the project was on establishing collaborative partnerships to plan and guide the project, cultivating community participation in interpreting and disseminating findings, and honoring diverse LGBTQ community members' voices through data-driven community action. This article documents lessons learned about building and facilitating community-university partnerships, organizing and maintaining a sustained community research collaborative, engaging community participation, and ultimately, creating lasting, community-driven interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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5. A Grounded Theory of Sexual Minority Women and Transgender Individuals’ Social Justice Activism.

Author

Hagen, Whitney B., Hoover, Stephanie M., and Morrow, Susan L.

Subjects
*LGBTQ+ people, *POLITICAL participation, *ACTIVISM, *SOCIAL justice, *SEXUAL minority women, *TRANSGENDER people, *GROUP identity, *LGBTQ+ identity
Abstract

Psychosocial benefits of activism include increased empowerment, social connectedness, and resilience. Yet sexual minority women (SMW) and transgender individuals with multiple oppressed statuses and identities are especially prone to oppression-based experiences, even within minority activist communities. This study sought to develop an empirical model to explain the diverse meanings of social justice activism situated in SMW and transgender individuals’ social identities, values, and experiences of oppression and privilege. Using a grounded theory design, 20 SMW and transgender individuals participated in initial, follow-up, and feedback interviews. The most frequent demographic identities were queer or bisexual, White, middle-class women with advanced degrees. The results indicated that social justice activism was intensely relational, replete with multiple benefits, yet rife with experiences of oppression from within and outside of activist communities. The empirically derived model shows the complexity of SMW and transgender individuals’ experiences, meanings, and benefits of social justice activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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6. Au-delà de l’arc-en-ciel : parcours, trajectoires et altérités dans le Village de Montréal

Author

Chanady, Alexandre and Grenier, Line

Subjects
organismes communautaires, Montreal gay Village, Village (gay) de Montréal, gentrification, embourgeoisement, LGBTQ communities, power, quartier, pouvoir, community organizations, city, communautés LGBTQ, ville, neighborhood
Abstract

Ce mémoire de maitrise explore l’hétérogénéité et la diversité dans le Village de Montréal. Il s’intéresse à ce quartier au-delà de ce que sa vitrine commerciale laisse voir. Ses lieux de sortie et de rencontres, tout comme ses autres commerces et ses tissus résidentiel et communautaires, ne seraient pas des blocs homogènes, mais des mosaïques qui sont investies par une multitude de personnes, de groupes et de communautés. Ceux-ci, dépendamment de leurs trajectoires et de leurs parcours, ont des perceptions et des vécus forts différents les uns des autres des mêmes lieux, d’une part, et du Village dans son ensemble, d’autre part. Sur la base d’une analyse documentaire et de six (6) entrevues menées auprès de personnes qui fréquentent les milieux communautaires et activistes LGBTQ, ce mémoire révèle les multiples stratégies et manières d’occuper l’espace urbain dans le Village, et les réseaux et les lieux où s’observe cette diversité., This Master’s thesis explores the diversity and heterogeneity of space within Montréal’s (gay) Village. It seeks to analyze this neighborhood beyond what its ‘commercial showcase’ might reveal at first sight. The Village’s bars and clubs, as well as its shops, community organizations and sociodemographic composition, are not thought as homogeneous, but rather mosaics of multiple people, groups and communities across space. These latter, depending on their trajectories and routes, often have different perceptions and experiences of a single place or of the Village as a whole. Based on a document analysis and interviews with six (6) LGBTQ activists, this thesis reveals multiple strategies and ways to engage space, as well as the networks and spaces within Montreal’s Village where this diversity can be experienced.

Published
2020

8. At skabe talerum: et narrativt studie af fortællinger om vold i lesbiske relationer

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore narratives on violence in lesbian relationships. The study seeks to explore how stories and the act of storytelling can be used as a means to investigate a topic that has been discounted by focusing on the conditions and limitations for speaking. The study consists of both a personal narrative about being in a relationship with violence and community-based perspectives on the subject. The main objective of the study is to conduct a methodological discussion on how to examine the topic with an emancipatory approach by including the narrator as an active participant in the research process. I found that dominant narratives on intimate partner violence shaped by a binary understanding of gender make it difficult to define, discuss and examine the violence that occurs in lesbian relationships. By using a theoretical perspective on narratives and feminist methodologies, the study purports that stories and the act of storytelling can be used as a method to negotiate meaning and agency for the narrator. Having the narrator take part as a research participant shaped the entire research process and had a positive impact on the narrator’s ability to process her experiences.

Published
2016

9. At skabe talerum: et narrativt studie af fortællinger om vold i lesbiske relationer

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore narratives on violence in lesbian relationships. The study seeks to explore how stories and the act of storytelling can be used as a means to investigate a topic that has been discounted by focusing on the conditions and limitations for speaking. The study consists of both a personal narrative about being in a relationship with violence and community-based perspectives on the subject. The main objective of the study is to conduct a methodological discussion on how to examine the topic with an emancipatory approach by including the narrator as an active participant in the research process. I found that dominant narratives on intimate partner violence shaped by a binary understanding of gender make it difficult to define, discuss and examine the violence that occurs in lesbian relationships. By using a theoretical perspective on narratives and feminist methodologies, the study purports that stories and the act of storytelling can be used as a method to negotiate meaning and agency for the narrator. Having the narrator take part as a research participant shaped the entire research process and had a positive impact on the narrator’s ability to process her experiences.

Published
2016

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