Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition
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This article investigates the relationship between exposure to structural injustice, experiences of social discrimination, psychological well being, physical health, and engagement in activist solidarities for a large, racially diverse and inclusive sample of 5,860 LGBTQ/Gender Expansive youth in the United States. Through a participatory action research design and a national survey created by an intergenerational research collective, the “What’s Your Issue?” survey data are used to explore the relationships between injustice, discrimination and activism; to develop an analysis of how race and gender affect young people’s vulnerabilities to State violence (in housing, schools and by the police), and their trajectories to activism, and to amplify a range of “intimate activisms” engaged by LGBTQ/GE youth with powerful adults outside their community, and with often marginalized peers within. The essay ends with a theoretical appreciation of misrecognition as structural violence; activism as a racialized and gendered response to injustice, and an elaborated archive of “intimate activisms” engaged with dominant actors and within community, by LGBTQ/GE youth who have been exiled from home, school, state protection and/or community and embody, nevertheless, “willful subjectivities”.
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Activism has been associated with less psychological distress and suicidal ideation among LGBTQ youth, even when controlling for effects of bullying and discrimination.
“Activism has also been associated with less psychological distress and suicidal ideation among LGBTQ youth, even when controlling for effects of bullying and discrimination [69].”
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- Authors
- Fine, M., Torre, M. E., Frost, D. M., & Cabana, A. L.
- Affiliations
- The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
- University College London (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Social and Political Psychology
- Published
- 2018-12-21
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 608-630
- ISSN
- 2195-3325 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2905965355
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 5.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Social and Political Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe’s Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- PschyOpen (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Psychology Archives (cc-by)
- Funders
- Ford Foundation
- City University of New York
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
- Keywords
- LGBTQ youth, gender expansive youth, activism, structural precarity, misrecognition, structural violence, social discrimination, state violence, housing discrimination, police brutality, student discipline, race and gender, psychological well-being, physical health, queer solidarity
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