Tag: LGBTQ

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Love Letters to the LGBTQIA+ Community Project

In celebration and recognition of Pride Month and eternal LGBTQIA+ pride, we dedicate these love letters of support and affirmation to you – our LGBTQIA+ friends, students, colleagues, family members, and peers. We write these letters to let you know that you are welcome, needed, valued, respected, and honored, and we hope they give you […]

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Prof. Jacobson López’s Research in Ghana Improves Access to Preventative HIV Care

Prof. Daniel Jacobson López traveled to Ghana this summer to consult on how intersectional stigma prevents vulnerable populations from accessing healthcare and preventive HIV care. This research was conducted as part of the Promoting Reductions in Intersectional StigMa (PRISM) initiative, an organization of researchers and healthcare providers exploring how multiple stigmatized identities create barriers to […]

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Fatherly: Lecturer Rebecca Minor (MSW’15) Debunks Misconceptions of Gender Dysphoria in Trans Youth

A 2018 study by a professor at Brown University introduced a misguided hypothesis that trans youth experience gender dysphoria due to conflicts between social identities and self identities. BUSSW lecturer Rebecca Minor clarifies the trans youth experience and harmful misconceptions around the difficult process of coming out in a recent Fatherly article.  Excerpt from “‘Social Contagion’ […]

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