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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"sexual and gender minorities"”.
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A new materialist exploration of Sexual and Gender Minorities asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of the UK’s asylum process
This research is a new materialist exploration of sexual and gender minority asylum seekers and refugees lived and embodied experiences of the UK’s refugee status determination process. It explores specifically experiences of sexual minorities who were forced to flee their homeland to the UK where …
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The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease and Associated Risk Factors among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Texas: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2015, 2017, and 2019
Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM’s), commonly referred to as the LGBTQ+ community, have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease than their cisgender heterosexual peers in the United States. In addition, there is mounting evidence that suggests SGM adults have an increased exposure to …
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"If I am not for myself, who is for me?" : an examination of legal and ethical considerations concerning LGBTQ+ populations and collections in museums.
… forced museums to reconcile their collections and interpretations with modern, diverse audiences. Now in the 21st century, museums are beginning to reconcile with a new audience: sexual and gender minorities. Following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, museums …
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Growing Queer: youth temporality and the ethics of group sex in contemporary Moroccan & South African literature
… taskforce that would be devoted to pursuing and prosecuting LGBTIQ people, or those perceived to be on the spectrum (Amnesty International, “Tanzania”). This current onslaught on LGBTIQ citizens has already seen 10 men arrested, ostensibly for participating in a same-sex wedding (Ibid). While …
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From Chilly Climate to Warm Reception: Experiences and Good Practices for Supporting LGBTQ Students in STEM
<p>Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning students (LGBTQ) face unique challenges during their university or college careers, and while society has generally become more accepting of sexual and gender minorities (SGM) over the past decade, students still often face chilly or …
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Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel
… dissertation analyzes the ways in which queer and trans people have been understood through verbal and visual baroque forms of representation in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various structural forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude them …
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Strengths in Intersecting Identities: The Experience of Being Black and a Sexual and Gender Minority
… variables in order to begin to understand a particular group's experience. The unique intersection of demographic variables or identities shapes a person's experience. Thus, the current study was designed to understand the experiences of those who are not typically represented within …
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Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders
… to self-care behaviors, a connection to desire, and inhabiting the body as a subjective site (Piran, 2016). This can be a complicated experience for leaders who hold multiple intersecting identities (Hill et al., 2016). As new medical therapies promise radical weight loss possibilities, the …
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Clinically Assisted Reproduction Among Sexual Minority Women: Plans, Pivots, And Partnered-Decisions
Research focused on the efforts to conceive among sexual minority women (SMW) in same-sex couples has expanded in breadth and depth in recent decades. Yet, as consistent evidence of health disparities among SMW, along with sociopolitical and technological transformations that have changed notions …
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"Unorthodox Conduct": Re-membering Queer Africa in Literature and Film
… Conduct'" explores positive representations of sexual and gender minorities in African literatures and film from the 1970s to 2010s that dismantle heterosexist notions of African sexuality and work towards what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o calls "re-membering." I interrogate how literary and cinematic …
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The Mental Health of Southeast Asian American LGBTQIA+ Adults
<p>The current study examines the prevalence of and relationship between mental health outcomes (depressive symptoms, anxiety) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among a sample of Southeast Asian Americans (age: <em>M</em> = 26.6, <em>SD</em> = 4.0) who self-identified as sexual and gender …
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'Now you see me, now you don't' - a study of the politics of visibility and the sexual minority movement in Kenya
This study explores the varied ways sexual minority organisations in Kenya negotiate their choices, decisions and actions when determining how, when, and why to be publicly visible or retreat from visibility. This they have to do in the context of the threats of retribution on the part of Kenyan …
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Gender, participation and the right to health: health committees in Cape Town, South Africa
… recognized as an integral part of health systems and the right to health. Health Committees are an example of participation, influenced by multiple social factors, yet little research has covered the impact of gendered power relations in health committees themselves. Committees are also deemed to …
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Identity-Focused Therapist Self-Disclosure in Matched Sexual/Gender Minority Dyads: A Longitudinal Therapy Process-Outcome Study
… clinical intervention whose benefits and drawbacks remain contested. Notably, no prior research has differentiated explicitly between self-disclosures related to the therapist’s core identities and those peripheral to identity, and qualitative studies suggest that identity-focused …
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Entre a palavra, a cruz e a espada: tessitura discursiva de homotransfobia parlamentar em uma audiência pública na Câmara dos Deputados
Sexual and gender dissent, which have always been part of concrete life, are existential manifestations as legitimate as cisheterossexuality. Nevertheless, the LGBTQIAPN+ community, has been discriminated against since ages, due to sociohistorical worldviews that produced the abomination, …
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Queering Law and Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Technology Oriented Principle of Equality
… Intelligence (AI) is increasingly failing minorities across multiple domains, including government welfare decision-making, airport security control, policing and criminal justice, online content moderation, hiring processes, and healthcare decisions. These failures disproportionately …
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The Relationship Between Body Image and Supplement Use in GBT2Q Plus Men and Nonbinary Individuals: A Pilot Study
… is a well-documented concern among GBT2Q+ men and non-binary individuals, with potential links to risky health behaviors such as dietary supplement use. However, little is known about how these concerns influence supplementation practices in Canada. This pilot study investigated the …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face discrimination and health/healthcare disparities in American society (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental …
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Perspectivas sobre las prácticas de Farmacovigilancia en tratamientos de reafirmación hormonal para mujeres trans en Bogotá
… Las prácticas de prevención también necesitan estandarizarse. A pesar de avances en políticas públicas en Bogotá, persisten desafíos en la implementación efectiva. El estudio identificó necesidades trazadas por una ruta de atención integral propuesta en 2022, señalando un camino prometedor. La …