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{"title":"Intersectional Scholar Advocacy in a Shifting United States Political Landscape","authors":"Kristen E. Benson,&nbsp;Katie Heiden-Rootes","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Intersectional feminist frameworks offer family science scholars the conceptual lens to consider overlapping systems of identities and power structures in families and society to understand how families live. Yet the shifting politicization of scholarship that examines diversity and inclusion is contributing to the social erasure of people and families who live with marginalized identities, highlighting the ongoing necessity and relevance of intersectional family science scholarship. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework and research paradigm in family studies that allows for systemic critique of inequitable power structures that impact families as well as the production of knowledge. Here, we recognize the changing landscape of higher education and the potential strain that family science scholars at Predominantly White Institutions face. We address the impacts of shifting federal political priorities and policies on intersectional feminist family science scholars and scholarship, how we have been directly affected, and offer strategies for navigating uncertain times.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"864-877"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145477815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Application of Intersectionality Theory in Family-Based Substance Use Prevention for Urban Black Adolescents","authors":"Ijeoma Opara,&nbsp;Isha W. Metzger,&nbsp;Christine Pham,&nbsp;Donte T. Boyd","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The harmful consequences of substance use are particularly concerning for Black adolescents in urban communities, many of whom face additional environmental challenges that disrupt their transition into adulthood. Families play a pivotal role in prevention, and some have been successful, as substance use rates among Black adolescents are lower than their racial–ethnic peers. Yet, prevention research often overlooks the influence of place, Black family processes, and the heterogeneity of adolescents' intersecting identities. Applying intersectionality theory in family science provides a lens to examine how overlapping identities such as race, gender, and class interact with systemic racism and environmental stressors to shape risk. We discuss how intersectionality can inform the study and design of substance-use-prevention interventions, using Black adolescents in urban communities as an example. We highlight the strengths of urban Black families and outline implications for family scientists and prevention researchers pursuing intersectional, family-centered approaches.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"910-921"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145473007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family-Led Systems Change for Equity in Early Care and Education: A Critical Family Partnership Framework","authors":"Colleen K. Vesely,&nbsp;Bethany L. Letiecq,&nbsp;Jihyae Choe,&nbsp;Elizabeth DeMulder","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Families who experience structural marginalization are experts on how oppression manifests in their everyday lives and how systems reproduce inequities. They are often most motivated to transform systems for their liberation and, we argue, should be empowered to drive systems change. Yet, frameworks to guide such transformative, family-led efforts remain nascent. This article details the development of the Critical Family Partnership Framework through a community-based, Family-Centered Participatory Action Research (FCPAR) approach. Informed by critical intersectional theory and the Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership, the framework was co-constructed over a yearlong project centering the voices of families from diverse cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, alongside practitioners and agency leaders in an early childhood system. Although developed in early childhood contexts, the framework holds broader relevance for those engaging in intersectional family science seeking to advance equity by transforming family-serving systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"834-850"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145652599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The War on Intersectionality","authors":"Patrick R. Grzanka","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70021","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Intersectionality scholars, including myself, spent much of the past 15+ years in what Jennifer Nash (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) called the “intersectionality wars” (17), or fierce and sometimes deeply personal debates on the appropriate uses and perceived abuses of intersectionality in academic scholarship. Whereas the intersectionality wars played out in the pages of books (Carastathis &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;), paywalled academic journal articles (Bilge &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;), professional conferences (Nash &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;), blogs, symposia, and the like, we—the community of scholars and activists dedicated to advancing intersectional inquiry and social transformation—now find ourselves in a &lt;i&gt;war on intersectionality&lt;/i&gt; (Bhatia &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), or sustained attacks on intersectionality and its proponents by right-wing activists intent on eliminating intersectionality from public, civic, and institutional life. In fact, the war on intersectionality is now being waged at the highest levels of government and public policy. It is indeed time to take very seriously the coordinated assault on intersectionality and its practitioners throughout higher education and American society.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Much of the post-2020 public discourse on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in organizations, including higher education, has focused on the boogieman of “CRT.” CRT is distinct from actual Critical Race Theory (Delgado and Stefancic &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;), the legal studies framework—of which intersectionality is an integral part (Cooper &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;; Grzanka et al. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;)—that examines how the law and public policy buttress white supremacy across registers of social life, including those that appear to be race-neutral or nonracial (see Ray &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt; for an overview). CRT, on the other hand, was purposefully constructed by Christopher Rufo and his functionaries on the far-right to serve as a malleable, boundaryless catch-all for antiracist things they oppose, such as acknowledging that racism is real and has observable consequences (Wallace-Wells &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Rufo and his allies used the signifier of CRT to drum up a moral panic about how elementary school teachers, high school social studies instructors, librarians, and college professors alike were systematically indoctrinating children across the United States into the idea that racism is “inherent”—a favorite word of theirs and the new Trump administration (Rufo &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;)—to U.S. institutions. CRT, they argue, is about making white children feel personally responsible and guilty for past and present racial atrocities and is a moral pestilence to be rooted out of institutions, starting with schools (Rufo &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Curiously, little coverage of the anti-CRT crusades focused on the ways intersectionality specifically became a central target of conservative activists. But the vitriol directed toward intersectionality, Black feminists, womanists, and queer and tran","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"878-882"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145396781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bidirectional Intersectional Supervision: Redefining Power and Equity for Black Clinicians","authors":"Lastenia Francis","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional clinical supervision models in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) often reinforce hierarchical norms that marginalize Black clinicians' cultural knowledge and lived experience. This article presents the Bidirectional Intersectional Supervision (BIS) Model, an equity-centered framework grounded in Black feminist epistemologies. BIS reimagines supervision as a collaborative, relational process structured around three core commitments: epistemic justice, intersectional reflexivity, and relational accountability. Through practices such as reciprocal learning, collaborative decision-making, reciprocal feedback, and integration of new knowledge, BIS transforms supervision into a site of mutual growth, critical inquiry, and structural resistance. The model offers practical strategies for supervisors while addressing institutional and socio-political barriers to implementation. By embedding justice into the supervision pedagogy, BIS advances more inclusive and culturally responsive clinical training, affirming the knowledge contributions of marginalized supervisees as central, not supplemental, to therapeutic competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"883-894"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145255241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Viewing the Family Court Experiences of Affirming Parents and Their Transgender and Gender Diverse Children Through the Lens of Intersectionality","authors":"Katherine A. Kuvalanka,&nbsp;Maya Fiera,&nbsp;Jason Abram,&nbsp;Sophia Goldberg","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An intersectionality framework was utilized to investigate how sexism, racism, classism, and anti-transgender bias played a role in one custody case involving a transgender child. This case study—the story of a Black Latina affirming mother, who underwent a seven-year custody battle with the white father of their biracial transgender daughter—provided an opportunity to consider ways that intersecting biases can work to oppress affirming parents and their transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children through the family court system. Such custody decisions are happening amidst the larger political climate, which has become deeply hostile and dangerous for TGD youth and their affirming families, perhaps in conjunction with, or as part of, the larger backlash against DEI advancements. Transformative suggestions are shared for addressing the existing inequalities and injustices in family court revealed through our analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 4","pages":"851-863"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145241982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflexive voices: Revealing the person behind the science","authors":"Caroline Sanner","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70007","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"383-385"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mobilizing family science in the digital era: A critical retrospective of the JFTR digital scholarship board","authors":"Tyler B. Jamison,&nbsp;Casey Scheibling","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As digital platforms increasingly shape how families connect and gather information, family science must adapt its communication strategies to remain relevant and impactful. The <i>Journal of Family Theory &amp; Review</i> (JFTR) Digital Scholarship Board (DSB) was created to translate scholarly insights into accessible content for scholars, practitioners, and the public. Using conceptual scaffolding from Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model and insights about media framing, we examine how the DSB functions within the virtual microsystem, linking academic research to individuals through mediated communication. Drawing on 10 years of DSB history and engagement data, we examine how shifting digital infrastructures reshaped the DSB's strategies and reach. We discuss tensions related to mistrust in science, platform transitions, content format, and academic labor that underlie this work. Ultimately, we argue that digital scholarship is vital to the public relevance of family science and offer lessons for sustaining meaningful research dissemination in a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"365-382"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sharing a home, but not a family: The unspoken stories of cohabiting with divorced partners and their children","authors":"Linna Sai,&nbsp;Grace Gao","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reflects on the experiences of two women cohabiting with heterosexual partners who have children from previous marriages. Using duoethnography, we explore the challenges and possibilities of sustaining relationships and managing shared spaces in these complex family structures. Through a queer theoretical lens, we examine how non-traditional family arrangements disrupt conventional gender roles and challenge nuclear family ideals. Unlike formalized stepfamily roles, cohabiting women occupy ambiguous positions, resisting societal caregiving expectations and rigid stepparent identities—dynamics that influence their personal and professional lives. Our findings contribute to stepfamily literature by centering the perspectives of cohabiting women, revealing how their roles remain fluid and continuously negotiated rather than predetermined. In doing so, we challenge the assumption that women in stepfamilies must inevitably adopt maternal roles. Ultimately, we advocate for broader recognition of diverse family forms and for social and organizational policies that better accommodate the complexities of contemporary relational arrangements.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"405-422"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM): Reconceptualizing minority stress within family systems","authors":"Muzi Nina Li,&nbsp;Xiang Zhou","doi":"10.1111/jftr.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jftr.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As global family structures diversify and marginalized communities gain visibility, traditional health disparity frameworks like Minority Stress Theory remain limited by their individualistic focus and fail to capture how chronic marginalization impacts families collectively. In response, we propose the Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM), a family health disparity mechanism framework that situates minority stress within ecological family systems. MFSM reconceptualizes minority stress as a multi-level, relational, and dynamic process operating within families, emphasizing how minority family identity moderates the impact of external and intrafamilial stressors on family health. By capturing how families interpret, negotiate, and adapt to minority stress across individual, subsystem, and whole-system levels, MFSM addresses critical gaps in current health disparities research. This model offers a paradigm shift from viewing minority stress as an intrapsychic burden to understanding it as a family-wide force, advancing contextually grounded, family-centered approaches to research, policy, and intervention across diverse marginalized populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Theory & Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"506-526"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}