LibGuides: SWR-360: Week 6 Resources

Week 6 Required Resources

Articles

Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
National Association of Social Workers. (n.d.). Sexual orientation and gender diversity.
Read about how to promote exclusive language and the impact of anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts.
“It Kinda Breaks my Heart”: LGBTQ Young Adults’ Responses to Family Rejection
DeChants, J.P., Shelton, J., Anyon, Y., Bender, K. (2020). “It kinda breaks my heart”: LGBTQ young adults’ responses to family rejection. Family Relations, 71, 968-986.
This study examines the realities of LGBTQ young adults experiencing family rejection, specifically illuminating forms of heterosexist and cisgenderist family rejection and their impact on LGBTQ young adults.
Overlooked and Invisible: Everyday Experiences of Microaggressions for LGBTQ Adolescents
Robb Travers, Michael R. Woodford, & Lauren Munro. (2019). Overlooked and Invisible: Everyday Experiences of Microaggressions for LGBTQ Adolescents. Journal of Homosexuality, 66(10).
This article depicts a qualitative study conducted with LGBTQ adolescents living in southern Ontario, Canada, concerning their experiences with LGBTQ microaggressions within their schools and families.
Understanding Transgender People: The Basics
National Center for Transgender Equality. (2023, January 27). Understanding transgender people: The basics.
This text provides insights into the experiences of transgender individuals. It emphasizes the importance of respecting a person's gender identity, using appropriate pronouns, and understanding the distinctions between gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex.
Understanding Nonbinary People: How to be Respectful and Supportive
National Center for Transgender Equality. (2023, January 12). Understanding nonbinary people: How to be respectful and supportive.
This article offers insights into the diverse experiences of nonbinary individuals.

The Need for More Inclusive Measures of Sexuality within Social Work Research: Addressing the Erasure of Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
Bragg, J.E. (2021). The need for more inclusive measures of sexuality within social work research: Addressing the erasure of sexual and gender minority populations, Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 30(6), 482-499, doi: 10.1080/15313204.2020.1730290.
This research highlights the pressing need for more inclusive measures of sexuality in social work. The study, guided by Queer Theory, demonstrates a significant difference in the identification of sexual and gender minority individuals when using a more inclusive method.

Videos

Sex and Sexuality: Crash Course Sociology #31
Crash Course. (2017, October 30). Sex and sexuality: Crash Course Sociology #31 [Video].
Video 31 explores what sociology can tell us about sex and sexuality.
Gender Stratification: Crash Course Sociology #32
Crash Course. (2017, November 6). Gender stratification: Crash Course Sociology #32 [Video].
Video 32 will look at how society becomes stratified along gender lines, and also Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities.
Everyday Sexism
Bates, L. (2013, December). Everyday sexism. [Video]. Ted Conference.
This Ted Conference shows Laura Bates, a writer and activist discuss her creation, the Everyday Sexism Project.
How to Talk and Listen to Transgender People
Bird, J. (2017, June). How to talk and listen to transgender people. [Video]. Ted Conferences.
To help those who are scared to ask questions or nervous about saying the wrong thing, speaker Jackson Bird shares a few ways to think about trans issues.
Violence Against Women: It’s a Men’s Issue
Katz, J. (2012, November). Violence against women: It’s a men’s issue. [Video]. TED Conferences.
Speaker Jackson Katz asks a very important question that gets at the root of why sexual abuse, rape and domestic abuse remain a problem: What's going on with men?