Sil Machado, PhD Being Diminished in the Eyes of the Other Collage The encounter with homophobic attitudes and behaviors is a significant, often traumatic stressor in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals. This collage, which is part of an arts-based interpretive phenomenological inquiry into the experience of homophobia, represents the theme of being diminished in the…
READ MOREWritten by: Kristina Schoenthaler Section Editor: Kiara Tookes-Williams Peer Reviewers: Molly Becker, Olivia Jackson, Jasmine Merlette, Zaine Roberts Advisor: Antonella Bariani When working with children in the welfare system, I often ask a simple but powerful question: “If you had a magic wand that could fix all your problems overnight, what would you wish for?”…
READ MOREReview by: Nancy Maguire Section Editors: Serena Wadhwa & Omewha Beaton Yamonte Cooper, (New York, NY: Routledge), 2024, 314 Pages, ISBN 978-1032554105 (hardback), 978-1032554112 (paperback) Dr. Yamonte Cooper’s work, Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities and Interventions, is seminal. He begins by articulating the meaning of anti-Blackness, simply and clearly stated as “racism based…
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