On working with poison: Reflections on painful empowerment in queer faculty-student participatory action research

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Lauren F. Lichty, Jessica Belmont
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Abstract

Human sexuality textbooks, like most social and health sciences products, are notoriously limited in their inclusion of queer, trans, and intersex people. While well-intentioned faculty (like the first author) do their best to address these limitations, sometimes it isn't enough. Sometimes our texts, and we, cause harm. This paper describes two phases of a participatory action research (PAR) project involving queer, trans, and intersex students and a queer, nonbinary faculty member that intended to address harm tied to a course text, support student empowerment, and move toward action to improve unjust textbook representation. Through first-person reflective storytelling, we, the faculty member and one student member of the research team, share our approach to “working with poison,” including strategies for infusing trauma-informed practices into our PAR approach. We reflect on the pain of doing this work, and the ways our approach succeeded and failed. We end with recommendations for individuals, publishers, and institutions looking to minimize harm and promote justice in higher education curriculum.

关于与毒药合作:对酷儿师生参与行动研究中痛苦赋权的思考。
众所周知,与大多数社会和健康科学产品一样,人类性教科书在包含酷儿、跨性别和双性人方面受到限制。尽管善意的教师(如第一作者)尽最大努力解决这些局限性,但有时这还不够。有时我们的短信和我们会造成伤害。本文描述了参与式行动研究(标准杆数)项目的两个阶段,该项目涉及酷儿、跨性别和双性学生以及酷儿、非二元教职员工,旨在解决与课程文本相关的伤害,支持学生赋权,并采取行动改善不公正的教科书表现。通过第一人称反思性讲故事,我们,研究团队的教员和一名学生成员,分享了我们“与毒药一起工作”的方法,包括将创伤实践融入标准杆数方法的策略。我们反思做这项工作的痛苦,以及我们的方法成功与失败的方式。最后,我们向个人、出版商和机构提出建议,希望在高等教育课程中最大限度地减少伤害并促进正义。
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期刊介绍: The American Journal of Community Psychology publishes original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; theoretical papers; empirical reviews; reports of innovative community programs or policies; and first person accounts of stakeholders involved in research, programs, or policy. The journal encourages submissions of innovative multi-level research and interventions, and encourages international submissions. The journal also encourages the submission of manuscripts concerned with underrepresented populations and issues of human diversity. The American Journal of Community Psychology publishes research, theory, and descriptions of innovative interventions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: individual, family, peer, and community mental health, physical health, and substance use; risk and protective factors for health and well being; educational, legal, and work environment processes, policies, and opportunities; social ecological approaches, including the interplay of individual family, peer, institutional, neighborhood, and community processes; social welfare, social justice, and human rights; social problems and social change; program, system, and policy evaluations; and, understanding people within their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and historical contexts.
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