“It Just Never Worked Out”: How Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth Understand their Pathways into Homelessness

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jama Shelton ◽  
Lynden Bond
Keyword(s):  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Youth Homelessness ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Limit Access

Many transgender and gender-expansive young people live outside of mainstream society, due to structural barriers that limit access to employment, health care, education, and public accommodations, as well as prejudice and discrimination within their families and communities. These structural barriers can be understood as cisgenderism. Though a growing body of research examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth homelessness, gaps in knowledge about the specific experiences of transgender and gender-expansive homeless youth remain. This phenomenological qualitative investigation explored aspects of transgender and gender-expansive youth's experiences related to homelessness. This article focuses on participants' understanding of their pathways into homelessness.

scholarly journals Youth Homelessness

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Wilton
Keyword(s):  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Youth Homelessness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Transitioning Youth ◽  
Emotional Supports

Youth homelessness is a complex problem in Canada. While social programs do exist to help homeless youth, there appears to be some confusion as to which program is best suited for helping homeless youth be successful in their lives. This paper examines how social programs help youth leave the streets. The paper analyzes three levels of social programs starting with informal programs, middle-mode programs and formal programs in an attempt to determine the best way to reintegrate homeless youth back into mainstream society. A close examination of social programs suggests that more funding is needed to provide more spaces for youth participation as well as emotional supports to provide stability in their lives. Currently, there are gaps between the social programs. Each program has its own individual rules for operation and does not adequately support transitioning youth. Youth homelessness occurs due to the breakdown of the micro, meso and macro level institutions leaving youth to attempt to take control of their own lives by living homeless.

scholarly journals Female Candidates, Islamic Women’s Organisations, and Clientelism in the 2019 Indonesian Elections

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mahsun ◽  
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth ◽  
Solkhah Mufrikhah
Keyword(s):  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Female Candidates ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Grassroots Support ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women's Networks

This article analyses the factors leading to the success of women candidates in the 2019 elections in Central Java. Recent scholarship on women’s representation in Indonesia has highlighted the role that dynastic ties and relationships with local political elites play in getting women elected in an environment increasingly dominated by money politics and clientelism. Our case study of women candidates in Central Java belonging to the elite of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)-affiliated women’s religious organisations Muslimat and Fatayat shows that strong women candidates with grassroots support can nonetheless win office. Using the concepts of social capital and gender issue ownership, and clientelism, we argue that women candidates can gain a strategic advantage when they “run as women.” By harnessing women’s networks and focusing on gender issues to target women voters, they are able to overcome cultural, institutional, and structural barriers to achieve electoral success even though they lack resources and political connections.

scholarly journals Cancer Disparities and Health Equity: A Policy Statement From the American Society of Clinical Oncology

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (29) ◽  
pp. 3439-3448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manali I. Patel ◽  
Ana Maria Lopez ◽  
William Blackstock ◽  
Katherine Reeder-Hayes ◽  
E. Allyn Moushey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Cancer Disparities ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Cancer Outcomes ◽  
Research Education ◽  
And Gender

ASCO strives, through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality of patient care, to create a world where cancer is prevented and every survivor is healthy. In this pursuit, cancer health equity remains the guiding institutional principle that applies to all its activities across the cancer care continuum. In 2009, ASCO committed to addressing differences in cancer outcomes in its original policy statement on cancer disparities. Over the past decade, despite novel diagnostics and therapeutics, together with changes in the cancer care delivery system such as passage of the Affordable Care Act, cancer disparities persist. Our understanding of the populations experiencing disparate outcomes has likewise expanded to include the intersections of race/ethnicity, geography, sexual orientation and gender identity, sociodemographic factors, and others. This updated statement is intended to guide ASCO’s future activities and strategies to achieve its mission of conquering cancer for all populations. ASCO acknowledges that much work remains to be done, by all cancer stakeholders at the systems level, to overcome historical momentum and existing social structures responsible for disparate cancer outcomes. This updated statement affirms ASCO’s commitment to moving beyond descriptions of differences in cancer outcomes toward achievement of cancer health equity, with a focus on improving equitable access to care, improving clinical research, addressing structural barriers, and increasing awareness that results in measurable and timely action toward achieving cancer health equity for all.

Disrupting Hetero-Gender-Normativity

2016 ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Neal A. Palmer ◽  
Joseph G. Kosciw ◽  
Emily A. Greytak ◽  
Madeline J. Boesen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Lgbt Youth ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Lgbt Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Normative Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
School Supports

For lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, schools are often sites of exclusion and victimization. Research has demonstrated that LGBT youth experience elevated rates of victimization and bullying at school relative to their peers, but less research has explored the contexts and characteristics of schools that enable negative attitudes and behaviors toward LGBT youth. The authors examine how US schools construct environments that are unwelcoming and unsafe for LGBT students and largely fail to provide the supports that could improve the school learning climate. They examine strategies and practices employed by educators, students, and education advocates that can disrupt hetero- and gender-normative practices in schools. Specifically, we examine the mechanisms by which LGBT-related school supports—gay–straight alliances (GSAs), comprehensive anti-bullying/harassment school policies, supportive educators, and LGBT-inclusive curricula—support students’ well-being and academic success and challenge the hetero- and gender-normativity embedded in US secondary schools.

Agrarian struggle and food system injustice in the Anglo-Caribbean: centering social reproduction by (re)turning to Creft and Fanon

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Tessa Barry ◽  
Levi Gahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Food System ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Emancipatory Praxis ◽  
And Gender

This piece offers a critical commentary on the historical-systemic marginalization and food system injustice being experienced by women farmers, agro-producers, and cottage industry owners in the Caribbean. In doing so, we provide an overview of the structural barriers and systemic negligence rural working-class and cash-poor women across the Anglo-Caribbean face as a result of the ongoing trajectories of colonialism, neoliberal logics, and patriarchal norms. In addition, the piece details the disproportionate amount of (devalued) socially reproductive labor women perform within the agrarian Majority World. We end by proposing that the radical potentials, emancipatory praxis, and clarion calls for transformative change offered by the region’s very own Jacqueline Creft and Frantz Fanon are revolutionary voices to pay heed to with respect to advancing a sustainable and (gender) just Caribbean future.

scholarly journals Risk evaluations and condom use decisions of homeless youth: a multi-level qualitative investigation

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David P Kennedy ◽  
Ryan A Brown ◽  
Penelope Morrison ◽  
Loryana Vie ◽  
Gery W Ryan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Multi Level

Victimization and Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minority Homeless Youth Engaging in Survival Sex

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626051989843
Author(s):  
Edward J. Alessi ◽  
Brett Greenfield ◽  
Dean Manning ◽  
Meredith Dank
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Gender Minority ◽  
Survival Sex ◽  
Intersecting Identities ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
And Gender

This study examined how a diverse group of sexual and gender minority (SGM) homeless youth described and understood their victimization experiences occurring before they were homeless and those occurring after they were homeless and engaging in survival sex. In addition, the study explored how these youths manifested resilience when living on the street. The sample consisted of 283 racially/ethnically diverse youth between the ages of 15 and 26 years ( M = 19.6, SD = 1.28) living in a large U.S. city. Participants identified their gender as male (47%), female (36%), transgender (15%), or queer and other (3%) and their sexual orientation as bisexual (37%), gay (23%), lesbian (15%), heterosexual (13%), or queer and other (13%). Thirty-seven percent identified as Black, 30% as multiracial, 22% as Latino/a, 5% as White, and 5% as another race. Content and thematic analyses were used to conduct a secondary analysis of qualitative data. Four themes were identified: unsafe and unsupported at home; barriers to housing and employment stability; ongoing victimization and lack of protection; and unexpected opportunities for resilience. Findings demonstrated that participants experienced victimization related not only to their SGM identities but also to chaotic home environments. Once homeless and engaging in survival sex, youth experienced barriers to securing employment and housing as well as victimization by police and clients. These experiences frequently involved prejudice related to their intersecting identities. Despite encountering numerous challenges, participants described surviving on the streets by living openly and forming relationships with other youth. Implications for practice and policy are discussed.

scholarly journals Prejudice and discrimination in the everyday life of same-sex couples raising children

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário Augusto TOMBOLATO ◽  
Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi MAIA ◽  
Anna Paula UZIEL ◽  
Manoel Antônio dos SANTOS
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Parenthood Status

Abstract The present study investigated the experiences of prejudice and discrimination in the everyday lives of five same-sex couples raising children. Data were collected using a questionnaire and an interview and were analyzed by thematic analysis. Participants attributed meanings to their experiences of being homoparental families: they assumed their social role as they managed to develop their own conjugality and parental projects in the struggle within a social context permeated by the hegemony of heteronormative values. The participants experienced prejudice related to their lifestyle and attained parenthood status, challenging social norms and gender stereotypes. However, it was also found that attitudes of willingness and perseverance in their fight for their rights proved to be protective measures against prejudice and social intolerance. A limited number of studies have examined the prejudice and discrimination towards same-sex families in Brazil; therefore, there is a need for greater visibility and further discussion about this phenomenon.

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