Situated Agency: How LGBTQ Youth Navigate and Create Queer(ed) Space
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| Title: | Situated Agency: How LGBTQ Youth Navigate and Create Queer(ed) Space |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Gooding, Anita R. (ORCID |
| Source: | Journal of LGBT Youth. 2023 20(3):524-544. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 21 |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Young Adults, Youth, Coping, Social Support Groups, At Risk Persons, Bullying, Experience |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19361653.2022.2089430 |
| ISSN: | 1936-1653 1936-1661 |
| Abstract: | Research on LGBTQ + youth often portrays them as either as victims whose lives are defined by violence and discrimination, or as inspirational success stories whose ability to thrive is attributable to external interventions and policies. Drawing on theories of situated agency, minority stress, and queer monstrosity, this participatory qualitative interview project with LGBTQ + young adults illustrates instead how LGBTQ + youth actively shape their coming-of-age experiences and develop unique strategies to survive and thrive in the spaces they occupy. Rather than wholly traumatic or ecstatic, most participants reported mixed experiences with varying support from the people and spaces they encountered. Youth had to regularly engage in the labor of evaluating and responding to this mixed support and mistreatment in everyday situations and relationships. Based on these evaluations participants reported self-regulating their sexual and gender identities and behaviors, shifting tactics between spaces, seeking out and creating queer spaces, embracing their own difference, and engaging in direct resistance. Implications for research and practice suggest that refusing to center deficit-based narratives and recognizing the full range of young people's queer expressions will produce a more accurate picture of LGBTQ + coming of age and the supports that allow more youth to thrive. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1389971 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Research on LGBTQ + youth often portrays them as either as victims whose lives are defined by violence and discrimination, or as inspirational success stories whose ability to thrive is attributable to external interventions and policies. Drawing on theories of situated agency, minority stress, and queer monstrosity, this participatory qualitative interview project with LGBTQ + young adults illustrates instead how LGBTQ + youth actively shape their coming-of-age experiences and develop unique strategies to survive and thrive in the spaces they occupy. Rather than wholly traumatic or ecstatic, most participants reported mixed experiences with varying support from the people and spaces they encountered. Youth had to regularly engage in the labor of evaluating and responding to this mixed support and mistreatment in everyday situations and relationships. Based on these evaluations participants reported self-regulating their sexual and gender identities and behaviors, shifting tactics between spaces, seeking out and creating queer spaces, embracing their own difference, and engaging in direct resistance. Implications for research and practice suggest that refusing to center deficit-based narratives and recognizing the full range of young people's queer expressions will produce a more accurate picture of LGBTQ + coming of age and the supports that allow more youth to thrive. |
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| ISSN: | 1936-1653 1936-1661 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19361653.2022.2089430 |
