For all my sisters: The impact of cisheteronormativity on scholarship about the gendered and sexualized experiences of Black college women

Abstract

In this article, authors explore how and why cisheteronormativity operates within scholarship on Black collegiate women and engage critical cultural theories to suggest how student affairs scholar‐practitioners can be more intentionally inclusive in their conceptual, methodological, and programmatic choices.

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“…At the same time, the 2010s saw the rise of a fourth wave of feminism, which highlighted the use of social media in advocating for contemporary women's concerns, such as rape culture, transgender rights, care work, body shaming, and evolution of gender-inclusive language (Brunell & Burkett, 2024;United Nations, 2017). Aside from exposing and critiquing patriarchal structures, contemporary feminism has also identified cisheteronormativity as another form of structural violence that stems from patriarchy and amplifies the burden of women and gender and sexual minorities (McCloud & West, 2023). Cisheteronormativity is the hegemonic ideology that institutionalizes the privilege of cisgenderism and heterosexuality and marginalizes the gender and sexuality of non-conforming persons (Franco-Rocha et al, 2023).…”