Does the LGBTQ community include intersectional identities in its fight for equality? The simple answer is no, it does not. While the things being fought for by the mainstream LGBTQ equality movement do benefit all LGBTQ people, LGBTQ individuals with… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":88,"date":"2018-04-30T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T21:13:09","slug":"the-playground-can-be-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/30\/the-playground-can-be-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Playground Can Be Stressful"},"content":{"rendered":" Being a member of a minority group can have a\u00a0harmful, prolonged effect on a person. Now mix that with multiple minority statues and it can be a lifelong harm. Cathy Kelleher studied the prolonged effects of people with a minority status. She found that the stigma that LGBTQ youth faced had a negative effect on their lives currently and into the future. She also concluded that any identity-based stigma would have a negative effect on a person of that identity for more than just at the time of the incident. This is called minority stress.<\/p>\n While research has been done on the effects of minority stress almost no research has been done on the multitude of minority stress and the adding on of minority identities. For instance, the stress felt by a woman, and an LGBTQ individual and a person of color is one level, but the stress felt by an LGBTQ woman of color has to be worse and different altogether. This is important to understand because to better help those with minority stress, we need to fuller understand where different identities intersect.<\/p>\n This concept and idea of minority\u00a0stress is a newer idea and would be one of the next steps in LGBTQ\/minority research so that we can better find out how we can equip ourselves to combat minority stress and to help those who face it. The continued research could also go into determining if there is a link between minority stress and the issues faced by minorities later on in\u00a0life. This research has been ignored and has continued to be ignored due to the people who control the funding for research and organization that do the research. This allows the funders and leaders, privileged, white gay men, to bury their pain and the effects of minority stress on them instead of facing it head on and helping others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n Kelleher, Cathy. \u201cMinority Stress and Health: Implications for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Young People.\u201d\u00a0Counselling Psychology Quarterly<\/em>, vol. 22, no. 4, 2009, pp. 373\u2013379., doi:10.1080\/09515070903334995.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being a member of a minority group can have a\u00a0harmful, prolonged effect on a person. Now mix that with multiple minority statues and it can be a lifelong harm. Cathy Kelleher studied the prolonged effects of people with a minority… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":87,"date":"2018-04-23T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T21:08:37","slug":"the-playground-should-be-accessible-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/23\/the-playground-should-be-accessible-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Playground Should Be Accessible to All"},"content":{"rendered":" One of the most ignored identities is the identity of being disabled. We as a society forget that not everyone is as able-bodied\u00a0as we are. So in a society that ignored disabled individuals, it is easy to see how LGBTQ individuals who were disabled would be disproportionately ignored.<\/p>\n One of the main issues that face LGBTQ individuals who are disabled is the lack of sexual education. While there is a lack of sexual education for LGBTQ individuals and the LGBTQ community in a part has been fighting for better education, they continue to ignore education that is inclusive. Dr. Gray from Harvard Medical School said: “Too often adolescents with physical disabilities are told they don\u2019t need to be in sex ed, that it doesn\u2019t apply to them, but everyone needs that information” (Linhares). This is even truer for LGBTQ individuals with disabilities because LGBTQ sexual knowledge is not readily available\u00a0and these individuals could seek harmful ways to learn and find out the information.<\/p>\n It was not until 2014 that leaders in the LGBTQ community even started to recognize the intersection between the LGBTQ community and those with disabilities. In an event held at the White House in 2014, LGBTQ individuals who were disabled were invited to a forum to discuss the intersection and work that could be done. (Patterson) While this event was a big milestone, very few if anything came from the event besides recognition that the issues did, in fact, interact with each other.<\/p>\n As with almost every LGBTQ individual, access to health care is a problem, but with individuals with disabilities access to health care and health insurance becomes more difficult when you add in the fact that those individuals can be rejected care or denied health insurance due to their LGBTQ status.<\/p>\n The LGBTQ community has made the first right step by recognizing that these identities due in fact intersect, but now the community needs to work for protections and rights of LGBTQ individuals with disabilities in their fight for equality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n Linhares, Daniel. \u201cAnalysis: We Must Better Address the Needs of LGBT People with Disabilities.\u201d\u00a0NBCNews.com<\/em>, NBCUniversal News Group, 15 Sept. 2017, www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/analysis-we-must-better-address-needs-lgbt-people-disabilities-n801756.<\/p>\n Patterson, Emmett, et al. \u201cDisability Justice Is LGBT Justice: A Conversation with Movement Leaders.\u201d\u00a0Center for American Progress<\/i>, Center for American Progress, 15 Dec. 2015, www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/lgbt\/news\/2015\/07\/30\/118531\/disability-justice-is-lgbt-justice-a-conversation-with-movement-leaders\/.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *NOTE: These issues could be expanded on and be their own post, but due to space and the topic they were condensed into this small synopsis\u00a0and constrained to met the topic and not expanded on.*<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most ignored identities is the identity of being disabled. We as a society forget that not everyone is as able-bodied\u00a0as we are. So in a society that ignored disabled individuals, it is easy to see how LGBTQ… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":86,"date":"2018-04-16T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:22:32","slug":"ever-part-of-the-park-is-still-the-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/16\/ever-part-of-the-park-is-still-the-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever Part of the Park is Still the Playground"},"content":{"rendered":" Now, the title of this post might seem odd at first, but it boils down to this, even though the T in LGBTQ stands for Transgender<\/a> and gender identity and sexual orientation<\/a> are not the same thing, they are still members of our community and we need to fight for them. Currently, the LGBTQ community is fighting for certain\u00a0equalities, rights, and protections for transgender individuals. These include protections to use the bathroom that matches with their gender identity, \u00a0protections for transgender youths in schools, allowing transgender individuals to serve in the military and other small “victories.”<\/p>\n However, more serious issues face members of the transgender community. In 32 states there are no non-discrimination laws for gender identity for housing and employment\u00a0discrimination (GLADD).\u00a0While other members of the LGBTQ community also face these discriminations, transgender individuals face them at higher rates. (Harris and Anderson).<\/p>\n Another issue facing transgender individuals is that many states require individuals to jump through hoops and a process that takes months to change your sex on your license and other official documents, but this is only if the state allows it in the first place. Most states do not allow individuals to change their sex on their license or other documents. This makes doing daily task difficult and “a constant reminder that the government doesn\u2019t recognize your gender” (American Civil Liberties Union).<\/p>\n Lastly, the violence seen\u00a0by members of the Transgender community is unparallel to others. Even though violence against the LGBTQ community is at high rates, especially\u00a0among LGBTQ individuals of color, violence against transgender individuals, especially transgender women of color, see high rates. (Harris and Anderson). Transgender individuals face high rates of hate crimes and homicides.<\/p>\n This blog post does not even start to go into health issues and healthcare issues that are faced by Transgender individuals, which can be a blog post of its own. Transgender individuals face an impossible number of issues, but the mainstream LGBTQ community choices to ignore most of those issues instead focuses on what they think is right\/is the flashiest issues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n GLADD, et al. \u201cUnderstanding Issues Facing Transgender Americans.\u201d\u00a0Understanding Issues Facing Transgender Americans<\/em>, 2015.<\/p>\n Harris, Angelique and Katherine Anderson. 2016. Issues in LGBT Communities in the United States: Post Marriage. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University\u2019s Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies.<\/p>\n \u201cTransgender People and ID.\u201d\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union<\/em>, American Civil Liberties Union, 2018, www.aclu.org\/issues\/lgbt-rights\/transgender-rights\/transgender-people-and-id.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now, the title of this post might seem odd at first, but it boils down to this, even though the T in LGBTQ stands for Transgender and gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same thing, they are still… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3,"date":"2018-04-12T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymindyourplayground.wordpress.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:51:25","slug":"my-leadership-journey-begins-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/12\/my-leadership-journey-begins-now\/","title":{"rendered":"My Leadership Journey Begins Now"},"content":{"rendered":" My thoughts on leadership have changed drastically from the first time I came to American University to now, which is to be expected and is something I view as a good thing. It means I\u00a0have grown as a person. Back in high school and starting AU, I thought to be a leader meant that you were always right and have to be assertive and be in total control and make every decision. Basically, I thought to be\u00a0an authoritarian\u00a0leader, was true leadership.<\/p>\n However, since coming to AU and learning about different leadership styles from the Leadership Program, I have expanded what I consider leadership and have finally settled into my own personal leadership style. My first two years at AU, I found it hard balancing what I considered my leadership style from high school and these new leadership styles that I was learning about in classes. I finally was able to find my\u00a0balance my junior year and settle into what I think it means to be a leader.<\/p>\n For me, being a leader is about encouraging your followers to take authorship and ownership over the work you are all doing. As the leader, you do not have to be making all the decisions or be controlling everything. However, one important thing is as the leader when something does go wrong, it is your job to take the responsibility on yourself to A. fix it, B. make sure it does not happen again, C. take the blame when needed. One of the worst things a leader can do is to blame their followers for something going wrong to others.<\/p>\n I know my\u00a0leadership journey is not over and is actually just beginning in some instances. I plan to take the change and growth I have experienced\u00a0here in the SPA Leadership Program and use it to continue to grow and change and help others.<\/p>\n Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. \u2014 Izaak Walton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My thoughts on leadership have changed drastically from the first time I came to American University to now, which is to be expected and is something I view as a good thing. It means I\u00a0have grown as a person. Back… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":85,"date":"2018-04-09T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=85"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:05:12","slug":"community-playgrounds-deserve-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/09\/community-playgrounds-deserve-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Playgrounds Deserve Attention"},"content":{"rendered":" Dual income, no kids…the societal motto most people use to refer to members of the LGBTQ community. This implying that all LGBTQ people, especially\u00a0those older and in relationships have a lot of disposable income due to having no kids, but money coming in from two revenue streams. However, that is not true,\u00a0“LGBT people are born into all types of families, including those who are poor. LGBT people face the same socio-economic challenges that other people face. But they also face unique obstacles because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. These include a higher risk of being homeless when they are young, harassment and discrimination at school and at the workplace” (Sears and Badgett). The LGBTQ community has one of the most “significant poverty disparities” (Harris and Anderson) compared to other communities. This is important to note because most of the leaders of the LGBTQ movement are wealthy individuals who spend most if not all of their resources on issues that affect them or LGBTQ youth.<\/p>\n One thing the LGBTQ community does in its fight for LGBTQ equality is to protect and support LGBTQ youth, however, once a person becomes an adult, the support and access to resources almost nationally drop off and they have no to little opportunities\u00a0to dig themselves out of the whole they are in. This coupled with the fact that 28 states do not have any employment nondiscrimination laws that make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation (Movement Advancement Project). However, widescale the LGBTQ community is not focusing on this issue, instead, they are focusing on youths in school and other LGBTQ youths. While it is important to work on youths, the support cannot end when they turn 18, because then they become low-income LGBTQ adults, where there are little to no support for them.<\/p>\n Another issue facing low-income LGBTQ individuals besides\u00a0employment\u00a0is the lack of housing and public accommodations protections and support. In 28 states there are no housing nondiscrimination\u00a0protections and in 29 states there are no public accommodations nondiscrimination protections\u00a0for LGBTQ individuals. (Movement Advancement Project). This means that an individual can get evicted from their living place due to their sexuality and be refused services from groups and resources due to their sexuality. Again, as a whole, the LGBTQ community is not fighting for these issues, instead, they are ignoring them.<\/p>\n So while the LGBTQ community looks out for low-income LGBTQ youth, the support stops when the LGBTQ youth becomes an adult, furthering\u00a0the cycle of low-income LGBTQ individuals.<\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n Harris, Angelique and Katherine Anderson. 2016. Issues in LGBT Communities in the United States: Post Marriage. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University\u2019s Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies.<\/p>\n \u201cMovement Advancement Project | Non-Discrimination Laws.\u201d\u00a0Movement Advancement Project, Movement Advancement Project, 2018, www.lgbtmap.org\/equality-maps\/non_discrimination_laws.<\/p>\n Sears, Brad, and Lee Badgett. \u201cBeyond Stereotypes: Poverty in the LGBT Community.\u201dWilliams Institute<\/em>, TIDES, 3 July 2012, williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/williams-in-the-news\/beyond-stereotypes-poverty-in-the-lgbt-community\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dual income, no kids…the societal motto most people use to refer to members of the LGBTQ community. This implying that all LGBTQ people, especially\u00a0those older and in relationships have a lot of disposable income due to having no kids, but… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1,"date":"2018-04-05T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/spatemplate\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:49:15","slug":"leadership-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/05\/leadership-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership to Me"},"content":{"rendered":" What is leadership? What defines a leader? What makes a leader? These questions are something that I have been struggling with and trying to define ever since I joined the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program at American University. Having studied many different types of leadership and the different qualities that a leader possess, it is easy to see that there is no one set of traits or qualities that all leaders possess and not all leaders are inherently\u00a0good. I think what truly makes a leader is their intention to help and support their followers and that they have followers to believe in them.<\/p>\n History has proven that we have had leaders who are horrible people and who have done horrible things, but thought they were doing the best thing for their supporters and followers. They are still seen as leaders and they have their followers. I think it all comes down to the followers. Leader and leadership is a title that must be bestowed on someone by their followers for it to be true. For example, the only reason politicians\u00a0as seen as leaders is because American citizens give them that power and bestow the title of a leader on them.<\/p>\n So in effect, someone cannot claim themselves to be a leader but instead must have a follower\/support base that believes\u00a0them to be a leader and buys into their mission enough to give them that title. That is what makes a leader, nothing else, that is why we have good, bad, neutral leaders and leaders of all other types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is leadership? What defines a leader? What makes a leader? These questions are something that I have been struggling with and trying to define ever since I joined the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program at American University. Having… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-post1","tag-spa361-s16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":83,"date":"2018-04-02T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T21:00:05","slug":"more-than-just-a-white-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/04\/02\/more-than-just-a-white-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just a White Playground"},"content":{"rendered":" The first intersection we will look at is the intersection of LGBTQ identity and race. The modern LGBTQ rights movement has mainly focused on things such as the right to marry and the right to serve in the military, two issues that are not deeply important to many non-white members of the LGBTQ community. Members of this community instead care about having to deal “with racism within LGBTQ groups and heterosexism within their own ethnic communities” (Knauf), among other things. One queer person of color, Darius, stated that “there’s a definite lack of representation, so it can kind of feels like you’re lost when there’s literally no one who looks like you or when you feel like you have to speak up on every issue because there’s no one else but you to talk about it” (Knauf). This has become indicative\u00a0of the LGBTQ community where those given the microphone and the ability to speak out have been historically white men and women. Later in their interview, Darius called for more resources for queer people of color because most spaces are dominated by queer white people and due to this, people of color’s issues get overlooked.<\/p>\n The aforementioned issues, while mostly community-based, become bigger barriers when the number of systematic\u00a0and policy issues are brought to light. For instance, LGBTQ people of color are shown to have higher rates of discrimination and violence brought against\u00a0them. This applies inside and outside of the workplace, leading to “increased rates of unemployment, increased negative interaction with law enforcement, and racism from within the LGBT community” (Harris and Anderson). However, the LGBTQ community has not fought for non-discrimination\u00a0orders or training for law enforcement or members of their own community, because it is not something that affects white LGBTQ individuals at increased rates. Recent numbers show that “15 percent of African American LGBT adults are unemployed, as are 14 percent of Latinx LGBT adults and 11 percent of API LGBT adults\u2014compared to 8 percent unemployment for the general population” (Funders for LGBTQ Issues).<\/p>\n The last issue that I will focus on that affects LGBTQ individuals of color that is being almost widely\u00a0ignored by the LGBTQ equality movement is HIV\/AIDS. During the 1970-late 1990s, HIV\/AIDS <\/a>was a major crisis that the whole LGBTQ community rallied against, but then infections among white men started to die down and new drugs were given to those who could afford it. In recent years, PrEP<\/a>\u00a0has become available but is a costly drug that most insurances do not cover. However, the disease is still rampant in the LGBTQ community of color with a majority\u00a0of new infections\u00a0coming from gay men of color. As of 2014, 39% of black men and 24% of Latino men accounted for all HIV diagnoses. (Funders for LGBTQ Issues). Even with this increased number of infections and diseases, the LGBTQ community does little to nothing to combat the disease instead believing it is almost non-existent due to the lack of massive infections among white LGBTQ individuals. (Giwa and Greensmith).<\/p>\n These are just a few of the issues that face LGBTQ individuals of color and how they are being ignored by the mainstream LGBTQ equality movement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n Giwa, Sulaimon, and Cameron Greensmith. \u201cRace Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Homosexuality<\/em>, vol. 59, no. 2, 2012, pp. 149\u2013185., doi:10.1080\/00918369.2012.648877.<\/p>\n Harris, Angelique and Katherine Anderson. 2016. Issues in LGBT Communities in the United States: Post Marriage. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University\u2019s Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies.<\/p>\n Knauf, Ana Sofia. \u201cEight People of Color Discuss the Challenges of Navigating Queer Spaces.\u201d\u00a0The Stranger<\/em>, The Stranger, 10 Aug. 2016, www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2016\/08\/10\/24444698\/eight-people-of-color-discuss-the-challenges-of-navigating-queer-spaces.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople of Color.\u201d\u00a0Funders for LGBTQ Issues<\/em>, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, 2017, www.lgbtfunders.org\/resources\/issues\/people-of-color\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first intersection we will look at is the intersection of LGBTQ identity and race. The modern LGBTQ rights movement has mainly focused on things such as the right to marry and the right to serve in the military, two… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":82,"date":"2018-03-26T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:53:40","slug":"building-the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/03\/26\/building-the-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":" Before we can explore the playground, it first must be built. So before we can dive into the LGBTQ movement, LGBTQ equality, and intersectionality we need to provide some foundational knowledge and background information. The first thing that must be learned is queer theory. While Queer theory has many different interpretations we will be using the definition used by Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason in their writing. They state that the meaning of queer theory is determined by a person’s knowledge and position in society. Therefore, it could mean a theoretical perspective from which to challenge the normative, another term for lesbian and gay studies, a theory about queerness and queers, etc. We will be using this model of definition\u00a0because a person’s identities determine how they view the world and define things and with this series being about identities it is important that we have definitions that seek to encompass everyone’s point of view. Another note to take into account is that Beemyn and Eliason talk about the dangers of using the word queer due to the fact that it has become an umbrella that we shove everyone who is not straight under.\u00a0That is why using LGBTQ is more inclusive because it includes queer for people who identify as queer, but also includes those who identify as LGBTQ, but not queer.<\/p>\n Next, we must look at milestones in the LGBTQ rights movement that got us to where we are now. It is widely accepted that the modern LGBTQ rights movement started on June 28, 1969, with the Stonewall Riots in New York City. This was followed by the first Pride parades a year later on the same day. The next signification moment was in December 1973, when homosexuality was removed from the APA list of mental disorders. In 1974, the first two openly LGBTQ candidates were elected to public office, four years before Harvey Milk. October 1979 saw the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. During his term, President Clinton signed into law two aggressively\u00a0anti-LGBTQ rights bills, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell<\/a> and the Defense of Marriage Act<\/a>. All the while during this span from 1969-1996 the height of the AIDS crisis sweeps through the LGBTQ community. The 2000s saw better results with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by President Obama and the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act by the Supreme Court. This is followed by the Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriage, making it legal in all of America. In this time, the military also lifted the ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the military. (CNN)<\/p>\n These milestones are big and amazing, but as we will delve into in subsequent blog post, they are matters that affect a majority of white, educated, wealthy gay men and ignore other members of the community.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work Cited:<\/p>\n \u201cLGBT Rights Milestones Fast Facts.\u201d CNN, Cable News Network, 1 Apr. 2018, www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/19\/us\/lgbt-rights-milestones-fast-facts\/index.html.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Is That Queer Queer? Exploring Norms around Sexuality, Race, and Class in Queer Theory .\u201d\u00a0Queer Studies: a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology<\/i>, by Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, New York University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before we can explore the playground, it first must be built. So before we can dive into the LGBTQ movement, LGBTQ equality, and intersectionality we need to provide some foundational knowledge and background information. The first thing that must be… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":81,"date":"2018-03-19T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/?p=81"},"modified":"2018-05-02T23:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T03:33:59","slug":"beginning-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/2018\/03\/19\/beginning-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning to Play"},"content":{"rendered":" For decades, the LGBTQ<\/a> movement has been thriving and moving strong. Since the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969, the modern LGBTQ rights movement has been fighting for equality. However, who is the equality for? Does the fight include equality for trans individuals, queer people of color, low-income queer people, etc? Critics of the LGBTQ movement has claimed it to be homogeneous<\/a>\u00a0and lacking intersectionality<\/a>. The next series of blog post hope to answer the question, Does the LGBTQ community include intersectional identities in its fight for equality? The post will also look to see what are things that could be done to help bring equality for members of those intersectional identities. The blog will focus mainly on race, class, gender, disabilities identities and their intersection with the LGBTQ community. The series will end with an analysis of the information collected and an answer to the question asked\u00a0above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For decades, the LGBTQ movement has been thriving and moving strong. Since the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969, the modern LGBTQ rights movement has been fighting for equality. However, who is the equality for? Does the fight include… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mind-your-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/gp5975a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]![\"post\"](\"https:\/\/twentysixteendemo.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/post.png\")
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