This article addresses how leadership scholarship perpetuates whiteness and the problems this causes for educators and students advancing social justice. The organizations that the authors oversee deliver place-based, community-driven programs serving youth and families from the lowest quartile of the socioeconomic ladder. Their constituents are…

This queer narrative study examined the stories of two gay college men living with HIV and their relationship to HIV/AIDS. Foucault's technologies of the self served as the conceptual framework. Technologies of the self are practices, strategies, and narratives participants used to resist the stigma-tizing symbolic violence of AIDS. The men…

This study examined and quantified how race has been discussed in GBV-related research published in top-tier higher education (HE) journals. Intersectionality asserts social identities (e.g., ability, class, race) are "interconnected and operate simultaneously to produce experiences of both privilege and marginalization" (Smooth, 2013,…

Ambiguous loss experiences may be common among sexual minority (LGBQ+) populations who sometimes have fewer supports and increased feelings of vulnerability due to the marginalization they encounter. Consequently, it is increasingly necessary to understand how LGBQ+ individuals encounter loss during formative parts of their development and how…

This article derives from a larger hermeneutic phenomenological study on openly gay undergraduate men in elected student government. Findings from this study include gay men engaging in the work of advocacy and re(-)presentation as part of their elected student government role(s). Gay men acting as advocates in this context were called on to stand…

This arts-based narrative in/queer/y explores the subjectivity of gay college men living with HIV through the stories and art of two participants. Despite their significantly different lives, the two men shared a subjectivity that was also reflected in the lives of other participants. Care of the self reflects Foucault's search for a way of life…

We explored how notions of oppression manifest in the identities of 16 multiracial college students. We were guided by two research questions: (a) How does racial oppression affect multiracial students' identities? and (b) Is that racial oppression tied to traditional manifestations of racism, monoracism, or both? Findings demonstrate that racial…

Using narrative inquiry and guided by crip theory, we critiqued the relationship between the experiences of one queer, disabled college student and compulsory able-bodiedness, compulsory heterosexuality, and academic ableism. Findings reveal the complexities of claiming crip and passing. They also reveal resistance to these complexities through…

College students with and without disabilities who attend Jesuit colleges and universities are stakeholders in a centuries-old tradition of Catholic education that was designed not only to educate but to form the moral character of its students complemented by "conscience and a compassionate concern for others beyond oneself " (McCallum…

To be racialized as a Black person in a US context provokes a series of questions that necessarily indict history, human experience, and anti-Black reverberations that pathologically script them as unlearned and uneducable (Dumas, 2014). Against this backdrop, Black students are engaged in meaning-making. More research is needed to explicate how…

The third wave of college student development involves the use of critical and post-structural frameworks to reimagine formative constructs and concepts that have been key to understanding development in higher education settings. Using data from a constructivist grounded theory study centered on 20 queer Students of Color and their identity…

The purpose of this study was to explore how Hip Hop informed the construction of gendered racial and sexual identities among Black women at predominately white institutions (PWIs). Ten Black women undergraduates at a PWI in the midwestern region of the US engaged in individual and focus group interviews, which included participating in an…

Queer people continue to feel the effects of queer oppression in higher education and beyond, including unique financial challenges. The price of being queer is troubling in a world ordered around capitalism and heteronormative privilege. The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial landscape for queer students and call for a robust…

This constructivist grounded theory study provides insight into the complex process by which 56 STEM students with minoritized identities of sexuality and/or gender (MIoSG) experienced and navigated campus learning environments in their disciplines/fields. The Historicized Model of MIoSG in STEM is situated within systems of power, privilege and…

Using quare theory as a theoretical framework and critical narrative inquiry as a methodology, researchers centered the stories of 20 queer Women of Color affiliated with culturally based sororities. Participants spoke about how they perceived gendered and heterosexist norms in their sororities and how they negotiated their identities in these…