Full Description
Dedicated to fostering thriving among 2SLGBTQ+ students on college and university campuses, this comprehensive collection brings together pioneering research, rich theoretical discussions, and practice-informed insights aimed at enhancing inclusion, academic development, and wellbeing for 2SLGBTQ+ students.
This book addresses crucial gaps in understanding campus climate and academic and wellbeing outcomes for diverse 2SLGBTQ+ students. It also provides examples of campus-based initiatives to foster students' belonging and flourishing. It highlights the experiences of often-overlooked subgroups, including asexual and nonbinary students, and those with multiple marginalized identities, such as students of color and disabled students. Alongside exploring experiences of exclusion, the book emphasizes students' strengths and resilience, offering insights for developing socially responsive institutional policies and programs. Uniquely, to inform meaningful change on campuses, the book presents illustrations of campus-based 2SLGBTQ+ initiatives, with several focusing on students often excluded from dominant "LGBT" narratives and student services. Chapters cover a range of topics including mental health and wellbeing support, academic engagement, community building, advocacy, and institutional change efforts.
Thriving On Campus amplifies diverse voices and experiences and showcases innovative practices, offering essential guidance to create inclusive, supportive environments for all 2SLGBTQ+ students in higher education. The chapters in this book were originally published in 2024 as a special issue of the Journal of LGBT Youth. Later in 2024 the journal's name changed to the International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies.
Contents
Foreword: Toward queer thriving Editors' Introduction - Thriving on campus: Promoting the inclusion, academic development, and wellbeing of diverse 2SLGBTQ+ university and college students 1. Queer crip enrollments: 2SLGBTQ mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and/or disabled college students 2. They don't owe you their story: conceptualizing racialized queer care through protective spaces 3. Queering racialized designations: centering queer and trans Latine students at an emerging Hispanic serving institution (eHSI) 4. Identifying stressors inhibiting belonging, visibility, and peer inclusion for college students with MIoSG in STEM 5. The mental health needs of sexual and gender minority collegiate clients at university counseling centers 6. Examining campus support systems for LGBQ+ college students' mental health and well-being 7. 'I have had several providers who recognize my humanity': exploring the overall health and positive healthcare interactions of transgender and gender diverse college students 8. Environmental and individual predictors of resilience for queer-spectrum college students 9. Belongingness, connectedness & engagement: the impacts of an LGBTQ + residential learning community 10. Students' perceptions of all-gender restrooms after implementation 11. Practical insights from the Human Rights Campaign's HBCU PrEP peer educator program 12. Queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC): the sun of LGBTQ + rainbow 13. Queer umbrella: a student-employee collaboration to enhance 2SLGBTQ+ well-being and belonging 14. School of social welfare transgender justice group: student-led advocacy to promote justice and equity for gender diverse college students 15. Three years of Camp Qmunity: an interdisciplinary LGBTQIA + summer intensive program 16. Beyond gender inclusive housing: building a trans and nonbinary residential experience 17. The misgendering and deadnaming survey: an innovative, co-designed campus change project to catalyze improvement
