Graduation Date
Fall 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Master of Arts degree with a major in Social Science, Environment and Community
Committee Chair Name
Janelle Adsit
Committee Chair Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Renee Byrd
Second Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Third Committee Member Name
Jennifer Eichstedt
Third Committee Member Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Subject Categories
Sociology
Abstract
Emotional abuses within LGBTQ2SIA* communities are rarely acknowledged as existing or often normalized. Through care and anti-oppression works, transformative justice models such as community and self-accountability have helped carve out ways of addressing harm directly and breaking cycles of violence. The research in this thesis has been through mixed qualitative methodologies including semi-structured interviews and surveys. The participants' along with other authors, artists, activists and scholars’ narratives draws upon the experiences of emotional abuse lived within structural and social surveillance. The settler colonial state sanctioned projects have responded to harm by perpetuating violence upon those most marginalized. Deconstructing emotional abuse demands the abolishment of such structures and a recentering of self and community accountability processes within transformative justice utilizing concepts of critically queering to frame care and anti-oppression work. While this research paper addresses how emotional abuses in LGBTQ2SIA* communities are lived and can be addressed, the reader is also given information on how this research can be made more accessible and transformed into what participants have shared for future and current care work.
Citation Style
APA
Recommended Citation
Siebuhr, Alexia, "Collective healing within queer paradoxes: deconstructing emotional abuse in LGBTQ2SIA* communities to cultivate more accountable and compassionate worlds" (2020). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 444.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/444
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