The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives

Thompson, Beverly Yuen

doi:10.1080/15299716.2012.702623

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“…For example, one study of biracial-and bisexual-identified women found that the narrow, homogenous imaginings of community often portrayed or assumed in identity-based organizational settings were not consistent with participants' lived experiences, nor were they useful for using community as platform for personal growth or social change (Thompson, 2012). Another study explored recent Latina immigrants' experiences of community and found that participants were highly concerned with developing a new sense of community belonging in the United States, as well as maintaining connections to their country of origin (Bathum & Bauman, 2007).…”

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective

Hudson

2015

Journal of Community Practice

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Although previous research indicates a positive relationship between community belonging and well-being, little is known about how this relationship is experienced within diverse communities. In this study, interviews were conducted with 12 queer-mixed-identified individuals. Proposed is a conceptual framework for understanding how and why experiences of community belonging contribute to and detract from well-being. Specifically, the dimensions being close, being read, being seen, and being heard are explored through participants' intersectional and often-contradictory narratives. This study may enhance scholarship regarding lived experiences of community; research and practice related to multiracial, queer, and trans * experiences; and community efforts to promote well-being.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 95%

Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective

Hudson

2015

Journal of Community Practice

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Section: Lesbian or Lgbt Community Factorsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…For example, some lesbian communities are rejecting of bisexual women, particularly biracial or ethnic minority bisexual women (Thompson, 2012;Weiss, 2011). Bisexual women may feel more affinity to broader queer or LGBT communities than to lesbian social networks, depending on whether they are in relationships or dating women, men, or both (Thompson, 2012). There is no stereotypical "look" for bisexual women as there is for lesbians (Taub, 1999), making them less visible and under greater scrutiny because of not "looking like a lesbian" (Hayfield et al, 2013).…”

Section: Lesbian or Lgbt Community Factorsmentioning

confidence: 98%

An Ecological Framework for Sexual Minority Women’s Health: Factors Associated With Greater Body Mass

Eliason

Fogel

2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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In recent years, many studies have focused on the body of sexual minority women, particularly emphasizing their larger size. These studies rarely offer theoretically based explanations for the increased weight, nor study the potential consequences (or lack thereof) of being heavier. This article provides a brief overview of the multitude of factors that might cause or contribute to larger size of sexual minority women, using an ecological framework that elucidates upstream social determinants of health as well as individual risk factors. This model is infused with a minority stress model, which hypothesizes excess strain resulting from the stigma associated with oppressed minority identities such as woman, lesbian, bisexual, woman of color, and others. We argue that lack of attention to the upstream social determinants of health may result in individual-level victim blaming and interventions that do not address the root causes of minority stress or increased weight.

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“…Second, we look at how transnational and migration histories often shape individual identities, thereby challenging the 'US-based versus international' dichotomy that has been reinforced by existing work in this domain. Third, we affirm the distinct value of an intersectional identity perspective by exploring both mixedrace identity and queerness -a relatively unexplored approach in social science research, and social work research specifically, yet fertile ground for social science scholarship at the individual, community and organisational levels (Thompson, 2012).…”

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Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration

Hudson

Mehrotra

2014

Qualitative Social Work

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Social work scholarship concerned with mixed-race and queer identities is growing and ever-changing, yet often treats race and sexuality as separate experiences independent from context and environment. In addition, in studies of mixed-race people, the legacy of the Black-White/US-based multiracial paradigm and the history of such research using race as the only or primary analytic has left a dearth of studies that seek to understand mixed-race experiences within geographical, transnational and intersectional contexts. In this paper, we extend previous work focused on situational and contextual multiracial identities through an interview-based study of a sample of 12 queer and mixed-race individuals. We employ a narrative analysis to explore how emergent themes of geography and migration are salient to self-making processes of participants. Findings include: (1) diverse geographic and migration histories among participants; (2) interviewees' use of discursive strategies that draw upon experiences of geography and migration within the narrative structure; and (3) the critical role of geography and migration in expanding and changing participants' identity discourses and in shaping individuals' identity and sense of community. Ultimately, this work serves as a call for on-going attention to how geography and migration, as well as intersectional and transnational perspectives, add depth and texture to studies of queer-mixed people while also offering specificity to social work's broader commitment to context and environment.While social work research with mixed-race populations is growing, it has often failed to engage with some of the contextual and dynamic processes related to mixed-race experiences (Jackson, 2012). In addition, US-based studies of mixedrace people tend to focus almost exclusively on racial identity without consideration of the importance and interconnectedness of intersectional identities such as gender, class, sexual orientation and ability. Even more seldom is a consideration of geography and migration, particularly as they intersect with multiraciality and queerness in shaping identity and lived experiences. In other fields, such as geography and cultural studies, increasing attention has been paid to the mutually constitutive relationship between geography and identity. For example, in their work on identity and geography, Berry and Henderson (2002: 3) assert that 'Racial and ethnic identities do not exist in a vacuum; the places and spaces in which individuals and groups operate influence how race and ethnicity have come to be understood, expressed, and experienced'. In addition, recent social work literature points for the importance of considering the role of migration in shaping life experiences (Williams and Graham, 2014). However, geography and migration are still relatively underexplored and under-applied in social work research related to mixed-race and/or queer experiences and identity.As part of a larger effort to address these aforementioned gaps in existing work, this paper explor...

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The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives

Cited by 19 publications

References 11 publications

Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective

Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective

An Ecological Framework for Sexual Minority Women’s Health: Factors Associated With Greater Body Mass

Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration

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