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'More than lip service': LGBTQ+ Social Justice Educational Interventions as Institutional Benign Neglect.

  • Published In: Review of Higher Education, 2024, v. 47, n. 3. P. 373 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Catalano, D. Chase J. 3 of 3

Abstract

Using Ahmed's (2012) scholarship on diversity work and institutional life as a conceptual framework, we examine how LGBTQ+ social justice educational intervention (SJEI) facilitators described the challenges of their role. We found LGBTQ+ SJEI facilitators descriptions of their role revealed institutional dynamics that undermine purported support of equity-based work. Institutional realities that facilitators faced were neither intentionally malicious nor hostile, and encapsulated by the descriptor of benign neglect. Our findings expose how LGBTQ+ SJEIs operate as non-performatives treated with benign neglect through unenforceable authority, administrative gaslighting, and resource scarcity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Review of Higher Education. 2024/04, Vol. 47, Issue 3, p373
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Education
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0162-5748
  • DOI:10.1353/rhe.2024.a921607
  • Accession Number:175943297
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