LGBTQIA+ Resource List

• National Councils of Teachers of English (NCTE): The Time is NOW: Affirming Black Queer Youth
• What Teachers Need to Know to Do Right by Queer Students
• Measuring Multiple Minority Stress: The LGBT People of Color Microaggressions Scale - This scholarly project attempts to measure additional stress factors related to identity.
• On intersectionality: It’s important to remember that intersectionality is much more than simply the combined discrimination and oppression based on one’s race and gender, and can include other facets of identity. Still, the case that kicked off Kimberle Crenshaw’s coining of the term “intersectionality,” DeGraffenreid v. General Motors, began with a legal exploration of race and gender. Here are a couple of explainers:
  She Coined the Term ‘Intersectionality’ Over 30 Years Ago. Here’s What It Means to Her Today by Katy Steinmetz
• The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
• And just to give you two examples among so many possibilities of how a scholarly intersectional analysis might work, check out the description for:
  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings. This book traces a sociological history from the Renaissance to today of how people perceive Black women in terms of body image and health.
  • Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America by David L. Eng. This is an older psychoanalytic study looking at how the construction of Asian American masculinity is wrapped up in fetishism and emasculation.
• QTBIPOC Mental Health and Well-Being - A list of resources from the Human Rights Campaign.
• 21 Queer BIPOC Photographers Illustrate What “Pride” Really Means (photo-essay)
• Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses - W. Carson Byrd, et. al. eds.: The 2019 essays from this Rutgers University Press anthology look at multifaceted experiences of race, gender, ability, sexuality, nationality, class, and more as it is experienced by faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate students on college campuses, and uses strong evidence to suggest approaches to reduce marginalization and focus on equality in higher education.
• Language, culture, and Two-Spirit identity by Chelsea Vowel
• For more on indigeneity + gender, see the All My Relations podcast (Episode 5: Decolonizing Sex; Episode 6: Indigiqueer)