Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Gender Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) can foster critical consciousness in youth. Students desire intersectional dialogues on oppression, but these discussions, particularly around race, are infrequent and can be fragmented for those with privileged identities.
Area Of Science
- Sociology of Education
- Youth Development Studies
- Critical Pedagogy
Background
- Gender Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) are recognized as spaces for youth consciousness-raising.
- Critical consciousness involves understanding how oppression is structured and maintained.
- Intersectionality provides a framework for analyzing interconnected social categorizations.
Purpose Of The Study
- To examine the nature and content of critically reflective discussions within GSAs.
- To investigate how advisors support and participate in these critical discussions.
- To understand youth experiences with intersectional dialogues in GSAs.
Main Methods
- Analysis of student interview data (n=38).
- Analysis of advisor survey data (n=58), including closed-ended and open-ended questions.
- Utilized intersectionality as the primary analytical framework.
Main Results
- Critically reflective conversations, especially those centering race and its intersections, occur infrequently.
- Youth demonstrate nuanced understanding of intersectionality and a desire for such conversations.
- Students experiencing privilege on certain axes may feel fragmented during discussions on race, sexuality, and gender.
- Students desire active engagement from advisors in critically reflective discussions.
Conclusions
- GSAs have potential for developing critical consciousness through reflective dialogue.
- There is a need for interventions to enhance advisors' and youth leaders' skills in facilitating intersectional dialogues.
- Further programming is required to support deeper critical reflection on social justice issues within GSAs.
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