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On transits and transitions : trans migrants and U.S. immigration law
Celebrations of the \"transgender tipping point\" in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.
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Familiar Perversions
Familiar Perversions evaluates the many successes of the family equality movement, while asking important questions about its place within neoliberalism, racial inequality, and the policing of sexual cultures. Liz Montegary investigates how queer family politics might strengthen the diverse networks of kinship, intimacy, and care on which people depend.
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How Homophobia Hurts Children
Homophobia hurts kids. Explore ways to minimize that trauma!
This book illustrates the ways that children growing up to be gay are harmed by homophobia before anyone, including themselves, even knows they are gay. This compelling and sympathetic volume describes many simple ways that these children can be helped to understand that they can grow up to lead normal lives, with hopes and dreams for their futures. How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community brings home the voices of these children. They describe their experiences to show how they came to the frightening recognition that they are part of a group held in disregard by the rest of society, even sometimes by their own families.
Dr. Jean M. Baker, the author of How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community is a clinical psychologist and the mother of two gay sons. In this book she shares her experience as both psychologist and mother to show how the myths and fallacies about homosexuality have influenced parents, schools, churches, and lawmakers to send children the cruel message that if they are gay, they are not normal and will not be able to lead normal lives.
In this unique volume you'll find:
a chapter on identity development, following the Eriksonian model
interviews with high school students who are self-identified as gay
firsthand descriptions of the harassment and victimization of those perceived as gay in schools
research on how victimization at school affects gay youths
a discussion of the relatively new phenomenon of gay/straight alliances (gay support groups or clubs)
a chapter on transgender identity with interviews with four transsexual persons who describe their personal childhood experiences and their transition process
The focus of How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community, centering on
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Sexual Minorities
Explore the crucial issues facing the GLBT population in their struggle for acceptance in contemporary America!
Sexual Minorities: Discrimination, Challenges, and Development in America examines the stumbling blocks that prevent gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and trangenders from living wholesome, healthy lives. This book concentrates on the effects of outside influences on the homosexual psyche from adolescence to mid-life and programs and services that need to be developed to improve quality of life. While some outside influences can make positive changes-such as Internet-based outreach to educate men in chat rooms about HIV-sexual minority groups face negativity from society in the forms of homophobia and heterosexism.
Sexual Minorities uses statistics, charts, graphs, and surveys to reveal a remarkable trend correlating how contemporary American society treats sexual minorities and how it affects their psychological and psychosocial health. This book also reveals how-when internalized- this hurtful discrimination can cause self-hatred and depression. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the GLBT population, including:
the history of homophobia and intolerance toward homosexuals with its basis in cultural, religious, and sociological views
an in-depth survey utilizing Erikson's psychosocial model to determine the lifespan development of seven 'out' gay males who discuss their coming-out period, their roles in society, their legacies, and later-life issues
the lack of federal legislation protecting GLBT employees in the workplace and recommendations for creating a sense of security for these employees
a case study revealing the high incidence rate of heterosexism amongst social workers and the repercussions this could have among homosexual clientele
surveys and statistics investigating the rate of abusive behavior in lesbian relationships
three chapters involving spe
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Dignity for all
Awards:2012 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award FinalistAll students deserve a safe, respectful school environmentRegister for Peter DeWitt's upcoming webinar on Dignity for All.Students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered are susceptible to harassment from their peers and are at high risk of dropping out of school. This book provides professional development ideas and real-life vignettes that will help educational leaders foster a more caring school culture not only for LGBT students, but for all students. Peter DeWitt presents specific strategies for school leaders that include: Implementing a student code of conduct and school board policies to safeguard students; Helping staff members recognize and respond to overt and covert LGBT issues; Professional development guidelines to equip staff to intervene; Ways to include appropriate LGBT topics in the curriculum; Supporting Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) in middle and high school settingsThis practical and compassionate guide contains numerous cases and examples, strategies and templates for codes of conduct (including the NY Code), book study questions, and links to pertinent articles, websites, and blogs for further information. Dignity for All helps inform educators of the issues and methods for building acceptance in a diverse world.
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