TY - JOUR
T1 - “School Shouldn’t Be Something You Have to Survive”
T2 - Queer Women’s Experiences with Microaggressions at a Canadian University
AU - Dimberg, Sierra K.
AU - Clark, D. Anthony
AU - Spanierman, Lisa B.
AU - VanDaalen, Rachel A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially funded by the McGill University Office of Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) and supported by the Social Equity and Diversity Education Office at McGill University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The authors used an interpretative phenomenological analysis of focus-group data provided by eight research participants to investigate microaggressions that target queer women at an urban Canadian university. Four themes emerged from the data that support and extend prior sexual orientation microaggressions typologies research: (a) facing skepticism as response to sexual orientation, (b) living with surveillance as response to gender presentation, (c) encountering heteronormative assumptions, and (d) experiencing vulnerability. The authors discuss these findings in the context of previous research, outline future research directions, and provide implications for campus life.
AB - The authors used an interpretative phenomenological analysis of focus-group data provided by eight research participants to investigate microaggressions that target queer women at an urban Canadian university. Four themes emerged from the data that support and extend prior sexual orientation microaggressions typologies research: (a) facing skepticism as response to sexual orientation, (b) living with surveillance as response to gender presentation, (c) encountering heteronormative assumptions, and (d) experiencing vulnerability. The authors discuss these findings in the context of previous research, outline future research directions, and provide implications for campus life.
KW - Sexual orientation microaggressions
KW - gender identity microaggressions
KW - queer women
KW - subtle discrimination
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U2 - 10.1080/00918369.2019.1661729
DO - 10.1080/00918369.2019.1661729
M3 - Article
C2 - 31509095
AN - SCOPUS:85073776805
SN - 0091-8369
VL - 68
SP - 709
EP - 732
JO - Journal of Homosexuality
JF - Journal of Homosexuality
IS - 5
ER -