This keynote address focuses on the role that an insider/outsider approach to information has on ... more This keynote address focuses on the role that an insider/outsider approach to information has on the role that libraries play in the daily lives of marginalized peoples. Grounded in this discussion is the effect that change has on the information environments of libraries and consequently on the people they wish to serve. As developed in this paper change is a concept whose intent is to bring about an enhanced worldview. Moreover, its central attribute provides for reasonable people to reverse previously held opinions about social reality. However, in this process, change also requires members of a marginalized world to replace what was a comfortable and often information rich world with a completely different set of information needs and uses.
Using Yep's (2010¸2016a) notion of thick intersectionality as a theoretical framework, the author... more Using Yep's (2010¸2016a) notion of thick intersectionality as a theoretical framework, the authors advocate for a more nuanced approach to microaggressions than has traditionally been undertaken by microaggression research. The authors describe how such an approach to microaggressions has been successfully employed to train teachers involved with the Metro College Success Program at San Francisco State University. Finally, the authors consider the general theoretical and pedagogical benefits of using a thick intersectional approach to study microaggressions.
Offering a captivating exploration of seven-year-old Ludovic Fabre’s struggle against cultural ex... more Offering a captivating exploration of seven-year-old Ludovic Fabre’s struggle against cultural expectations of normative boyhood masculinity, Alain Berliner’s blockbuster Ma Vie en Rose exposes the ways in which current sex and gender systems operate in cinematic representations of nonconforming gender identities. Using transing as our theoretical framework to investigate how gender is assembled and reassembled in and across other social categories such as age, we engage in a close reading of the film with a focus on Ludovic’s gender performance. Our analysis reveals three distinct but interrelated discourses—construction, correction, and narration—as the protagonist and Ludovic’s family and larger social circle attempt to work with, through, and against transgression of normative boyhood masculinity. We conclude by exploring the implications of transing boyhood gender performances.
Intercultural communication, originating in the United States, has extensively focused on differe... more Intercultural communication, originating in the United States, has extensively focused on differences of communication styles, processes, and problems between sociocultural groups for a long time. This course of study reproduces and reconstitutes a nationalistic binary paradigm of US Americans versus others. It generalizes cultural differences of communication. The assumption of styles in the United States re-centers and re-secures white, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. At the same time, the conception and operation of others are generally non-US American, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. In so doing, the field of intercultural communication tends to ignore, erase, and/or marginalize differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and the body. US domestic racial minorities such as African Americans, Arab and Middle Eastern Americans, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans are often overlooked, for example. In order to counte...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Nov 22, 2019
Queer intercultural communication is an emerging and vibrant area of the communication discipline... more Queer intercultural communication is an emerging and vibrant area of the communication discipline. The examination of this developing area of inquiry, the preliminary mapping of the field of queer intercultural communication, and its potential guidelines for future research deserves our attention. To do so, there are three sections for examination. First is an integrative view of queer intercultural communication by identifying fundamental components of its major contexts – macro, meso, and micro – and a model for understanding this research. Second is the exploration and examination of these major contexts in terms of theoretical, methodological, and political issues and concerns. Lastly, potential guidelines for research in queer intercultural communication are needed.
The complexities of health-related communication research and practice in community and with comm... more The complexities of health-related communication research and practice in community and with community are the foci of this chapter. As scholars and members of multiple communities some marginalized and some not we are committed to the ideology and principles of community-based health communication scholarship that we will describe in these pages. Because of these commitments we begin with a narrative describing a community-based health communication strategy that fell short of these commitments. Our purpose in this narrative of failure is not to discourage community-based collaborative scholarship. Rather we hope it illustrates how readily and unconsciously privilege may be enacted and marginalization experienced in such efforts. While we each have stories to tell one of Leighs experiences with hantavirus prevention education in the U.S.-Mexico border region (USMBR) follows. (excerpt)
... Psychological Bulletin, 112, 106-124. Dion, KL and Dion, KK (1988). Romantic love: Individual... more ... Psychological Bulletin, 112, 106-124. Dion, KL and Dion, KK (1988). Romantic love: Individual and cultural per-spectives. In R. Sternberg and M. Barnes (Eds.), The Psychology of Love. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Edgar, T. and Fitzpatrick, MA (1988). ...
As one of the largest student-led activist actions in the United States, the Day of Silence (US D... more As one of the largest student-led activist actions in the United States, the Day of Silence (US DOS) was established in 1996 to call attention to the quotidian and ubiquitous acts of violence committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals in this country. As two educators who are deeply committed to social justice and inhabit distinct social locations, we decided to participate in the US DOS in an effort to reflect on the complexities surrounding the politics of silence. Using a combination of personal narrative, conventional academic writing, and dialogue, we examine and reflect on the multiple meanings of silence and their potential for social change.1 To accomplish this, our essay is divided into five sections.2 The first, “Exploring the complexities of silence,” examines the meanings of silence in LGBTQ communities and proposes a “queer methodology” (Halberstam, 1998, p. 10) for this examination. The second, “Historicizing silence: A brief history of the US day of silence” provides an historical context for this yearly event. In “Reflecting aloud,” our third section, we draw on our own biographies and histories to make sense of the day. In the fourth section, “Conversing about silences and voice,” we engage in dialogue to discuss the complex relationship between silence and voice, presence and absence, agency and resistance, oppression and liberation.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Jun 1, 2014
Using a combination of critical theory, poststructuralism, and critical pedagogy, this chapter ca... more Using a combination of critical theory, poststructuralism, and critical pedagogy, this chapter calls for a shift in the ways we conceive, imagine, and represent international instructors in US classrooms. More specifically, it highlights the importance of the voices of international instructors themselves, proposes a shift from the current discourse of deficit to one of cultural wealth, and offers some directions for future research in this area.
Nationally, the incidence of AIDS is increasing at a higher rate among Asian and Pacific Islander... more Nationally, the incidence of AIDS is increasing at a higher rate among Asian and Pacific Islander American men who have sex with men (API MSM) than among white MSM. Furthermore, current HIV prevention efforts are inadequate to slow the rapidly rising HIV epidemic in the gay API community, and little attention has been paid to the applicability of existing behavior change models to APIMSM. This paper reviews the five major models of health behavior change used in HIV prevention for the MSM population: the health belief model, theory of reasoned action, social learning theory, diffusion theory, and the AIDS risk reduction model. Although some of these models have been useful in designing risk reduction programs for API MSM, recent empirical data suggest that the models do not adequately address environmental influences affecting API MSM and limit our choices in prevention strategies to the level of the individual. We propose an ecological model for health promotion as a potentially useful theoretical framework, and suggest prevention strategies directed at the individual, the family, the general API community, and the mainstream gay community to reduce HIV risk among API MSM.
... Ialso express thanks to the faculty andstaff attheCenterforComprehensiveCareof ImmuneDeficien... more ... Ialso express thanks to the faculty andstaff attheCenterforComprehensiveCareof ImmuneDeficiencyattheEastern Virginia Medical School, including Edward C. Oldfield III, Sharon Hopson, LuAnn Gahagan, M. Randy Smith, Julie Turner, and Mary Virginia (Ginny) Sealey-Bobby. ...
SUMMARY By examining homophobia and heterosexism within the larger context of heteronormativity a... more SUMMARY By examining homophobia and heterosexism within the larger context of heteronormativity at the intersections of race, class, and gender, I propose, in this article, a model of queer interventions in the university classroom. The article is divided into three sections. First, I describe the conceptual terrain of homophobia, heterosexism, and heteronormativity, and their potential limitations. Second, I present an integrative model, using heteronormativity as the central site of violence, to examine homophobia at the intersections of race, class, and gender within the larger social and cultural domain (macroscopic level) and interpersonal context (microscopic level) and illustrate this model with specific classroom activities. Finally, I discuss the implications of the model for teaching and theorizing about homophobia, heterosexism, and heteronormativity.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most pressing health issues of this century. HIV... more Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most pressing health issues of this century. HIV also has ramifications for the relationships and daily lives of those infected and affected by the disease. One of the most widely recommended AIDS prevention options revolves around whether or not to disclose about ones HIV positive status to others--particularly to potential sex partners. In this volume we consider the impact of HIV disclosure for AIDS prevention. Relying on a theory of privacy and communication (communication privacy management theory) we explore the impact of HIV disclosure for a wider range of issues including communication social interactions and the development and maintenance of personal relationships. This book focuses on choices to disclose or not disclose an HIV positive diagnosis. These decisions about disclosure and privacy are critical for how people with HIV live and manage their relationships. Because the book pointedly focuses on disclosure of HIV infection it is at once unique and yet of interest to a wide variety of related fields of study. The focus of this book is on private voluntary relational disclosure (e.g. "Should I tell you about the diagnosis?") not on forced or public disclosure (e.g. "Information about my HIV diagnosis was divulged to others by a public health worker"). Disclosure is examined in a variety of social contexts including in relationships with intimate partners families friends health workers and coworkers. Of particular interest is examination of decisions to disclose an HIV diagnosis (e.g. reasons for disclosure stigma and relational quality) disclosure message features and consequences of disclosure of HIV infection (e.g. social support physical health sexual behavior self-identity relationships with family and others in ones social network). (excerpt)
This keynote address focuses on the role that an insider/outsider approach to information has on ... more This keynote address focuses on the role that an insider/outsider approach to information has on the role that libraries play in the daily lives of marginalized peoples. Grounded in this discussion is the effect that change has on the information environments of libraries and consequently on the people they wish to serve. As developed in this paper change is a concept whose intent is to bring about an enhanced worldview. Moreover, its central attribute provides for reasonable people to reverse previously held opinions about social reality. However, in this process, change also requires members of a marginalized world to replace what was a comfortable and often information rich world with a completely different set of information needs and uses.
Using Yep's (2010¸2016a) notion of thick intersectionality as a theoretical framework, the author... more Using Yep's (2010¸2016a) notion of thick intersectionality as a theoretical framework, the authors advocate for a more nuanced approach to microaggressions than has traditionally been undertaken by microaggression research. The authors describe how such an approach to microaggressions has been successfully employed to train teachers involved with the Metro College Success Program at San Francisco State University. Finally, the authors consider the general theoretical and pedagogical benefits of using a thick intersectional approach to study microaggressions.
Offering a captivating exploration of seven-year-old Ludovic Fabre’s struggle against cultural ex... more Offering a captivating exploration of seven-year-old Ludovic Fabre’s struggle against cultural expectations of normative boyhood masculinity, Alain Berliner’s blockbuster Ma Vie en Rose exposes the ways in which current sex and gender systems operate in cinematic representations of nonconforming gender identities. Using transing as our theoretical framework to investigate how gender is assembled and reassembled in and across other social categories such as age, we engage in a close reading of the film with a focus on Ludovic’s gender performance. Our analysis reveals three distinct but interrelated discourses—construction, correction, and narration—as the protagonist and Ludovic’s family and larger social circle attempt to work with, through, and against transgression of normative boyhood masculinity. We conclude by exploring the implications of transing boyhood gender performances.
Intercultural communication, originating in the United States, has extensively focused on differe... more Intercultural communication, originating in the United States, has extensively focused on differences of communication styles, processes, and problems between sociocultural groups for a long time. This course of study reproduces and reconstitutes a nationalistic binary paradigm of US Americans versus others. It generalizes cultural differences of communication. The assumption of styles in the United States re-centers and re-secures white, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. At the same time, the conception and operation of others are generally non-US American, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. In so doing, the field of intercultural communication tends to ignore, erase, and/or marginalize differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and the body. US domestic racial minorities such as African Americans, Arab and Middle Eastern Americans, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans are often overlooked, for example. In order to counte...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Nov 22, 2019
Queer intercultural communication is an emerging and vibrant area of the communication discipline... more Queer intercultural communication is an emerging and vibrant area of the communication discipline. The examination of this developing area of inquiry, the preliminary mapping of the field of queer intercultural communication, and its potential guidelines for future research deserves our attention. To do so, there are three sections for examination. First is an integrative view of queer intercultural communication by identifying fundamental components of its major contexts – macro, meso, and micro – and a model for understanding this research. Second is the exploration and examination of these major contexts in terms of theoretical, methodological, and political issues and concerns. Lastly, potential guidelines for research in queer intercultural communication are needed.
The complexities of health-related communication research and practice in community and with comm... more The complexities of health-related communication research and practice in community and with community are the foci of this chapter. As scholars and members of multiple communities some marginalized and some not we are committed to the ideology and principles of community-based health communication scholarship that we will describe in these pages. Because of these commitments we begin with a narrative describing a community-based health communication strategy that fell short of these commitments. Our purpose in this narrative of failure is not to discourage community-based collaborative scholarship. Rather we hope it illustrates how readily and unconsciously privilege may be enacted and marginalization experienced in such efforts. While we each have stories to tell one of Leighs experiences with hantavirus prevention education in the U.S.-Mexico border region (USMBR) follows. (excerpt)
... Psychological Bulletin, 112, 106-124. Dion, KL and Dion, KK (1988). Romantic love: Individual... more ... Psychological Bulletin, 112, 106-124. Dion, KL and Dion, KK (1988). Romantic love: Individual and cultural per-spectives. In R. Sternberg and M. Barnes (Eds.), The Psychology of Love. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Edgar, T. and Fitzpatrick, MA (1988). ...
As one of the largest student-led activist actions in the United States, the Day of Silence (US D... more As one of the largest student-led activist actions in the United States, the Day of Silence (US DOS) was established in 1996 to call attention to the quotidian and ubiquitous acts of violence committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals in this country. As two educators who are deeply committed to social justice and inhabit distinct social locations, we decided to participate in the US DOS in an effort to reflect on the complexities surrounding the politics of silence. Using a combination of personal narrative, conventional academic writing, and dialogue, we examine and reflect on the multiple meanings of silence and their potential for social change.1 To accomplish this, our essay is divided into five sections.2 The first, “Exploring the complexities of silence,” examines the meanings of silence in LGBTQ communities and proposes a “queer methodology” (Halberstam, 1998, p. 10) for this examination. The second, “Historicizing silence: A brief history of the US day of silence” provides an historical context for this yearly event. In “Reflecting aloud,” our third section, we draw on our own biographies and histories to make sense of the day. In the fourth section, “Conversing about silences and voice,” we engage in dialogue to discuss the complex relationship between silence and voice, presence and absence, agency and resistance, oppression and liberation.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Jun 1, 2014
Using a combination of critical theory, poststructuralism, and critical pedagogy, this chapter ca... more Using a combination of critical theory, poststructuralism, and critical pedagogy, this chapter calls for a shift in the ways we conceive, imagine, and represent international instructors in US classrooms. More specifically, it highlights the importance of the voices of international instructors themselves, proposes a shift from the current discourse of deficit to one of cultural wealth, and offers some directions for future research in this area.
Nationally, the incidence of AIDS is increasing at a higher rate among Asian and Pacific Islander... more Nationally, the incidence of AIDS is increasing at a higher rate among Asian and Pacific Islander American men who have sex with men (API MSM) than among white MSM. Furthermore, current HIV prevention efforts are inadequate to slow the rapidly rising HIV epidemic in the gay API community, and little attention has been paid to the applicability of existing behavior change models to APIMSM. This paper reviews the five major models of health behavior change used in HIV prevention for the MSM population: the health belief model, theory of reasoned action, social learning theory, diffusion theory, and the AIDS risk reduction model. Although some of these models have been useful in designing risk reduction programs for API MSM, recent empirical data suggest that the models do not adequately address environmental influences affecting API MSM and limit our choices in prevention strategies to the level of the individual. We propose an ecological model for health promotion as a potentially useful theoretical framework, and suggest prevention strategies directed at the individual, the family, the general API community, and the mainstream gay community to reduce HIV risk among API MSM.
... Ialso express thanks to the faculty andstaff attheCenterforComprehensiveCareof ImmuneDeficien... more ... Ialso express thanks to the faculty andstaff attheCenterforComprehensiveCareof ImmuneDeficiencyattheEastern Virginia Medical School, including Edward C. Oldfield III, Sharon Hopson, LuAnn Gahagan, M. Randy Smith, Julie Turner, and Mary Virginia (Ginny) Sealey-Bobby. ...
SUMMARY By examining homophobia and heterosexism within the larger context of heteronormativity a... more SUMMARY By examining homophobia and heterosexism within the larger context of heteronormativity at the intersections of race, class, and gender, I propose, in this article, a model of queer interventions in the university classroom. The article is divided into three sections. First, I describe the conceptual terrain of homophobia, heterosexism, and heteronormativity, and their potential limitations. Second, I present an integrative model, using heteronormativity as the central site of violence, to examine homophobia at the intersections of race, class, and gender within the larger social and cultural domain (macroscopic level) and interpersonal context (microscopic level) and illustrate this model with specific classroom activities. Finally, I discuss the implications of the model for teaching and theorizing about homophobia, heterosexism, and heteronormativity.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most pressing health issues of this century. HIV... more Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most pressing health issues of this century. HIV also has ramifications for the relationships and daily lives of those infected and affected by the disease. One of the most widely recommended AIDS prevention options revolves around whether or not to disclose about ones HIV positive status to others--particularly to potential sex partners. In this volume we consider the impact of HIV disclosure for AIDS prevention. Relying on a theory of privacy and communication (communication privacy management theory) we explore the impact of HIV disclosure for a wider range of issues including communication social interactions and the development and maintenance of personal relationships. This book focuses on choices to disclose or not disclose an HIV positive diagnosis. These decisions about disclosure and privacy are critical for how people with HIV live and manage their relationships. Because the book pointedly focuses on disclosure of HIV infection it is at once unique and yet of interest to a wide variety of related fields of study. The focus of this book is on private voluntary relational disclosure (e.g. "Should I tell you about the diagnosis?") not on forced or public disclosure (e.g. "Information about my HIV diagnosis was divulged to others by a public health worker"). Disclosure is examined in a variety of social contexts including in relationships with intimate partners families friends health workers and coworkers. Of particular interest is examination of decisions to disclose an HIV diagnosis (e.g. reasons for disclosure stigma and relational quality) disclosure message features and consequences of disclosure of HIV infection (e.g. social support physical health sexual behavior self-identity relationships with family and others in ones social network). (excerpt)
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