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Shifting sexual and gender identity labels in the US between 2012-2018 among American college-aged youth
No full textDrawing on US data from a five-year nationwide longitudinal study of college applicants between 2012-2018 (N=6139; 2015–2016 was not surveyed) this presentation will examine shifting identity labels used to characterize sexuality and gender. A special focus will be on how these labels differ between difference regions of the US and various other demographic markers such as race and age. The literature on sexual fluidity and emergent sexual and gender identity labels will be used to contextualize trends observed. For example, 2016 study published in the Journal of American College Health by Sara Oswalt and colleagues provides a brief overview of various sexual and gender identity categories that were then used by college students. These identity labels include sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression articulated together. Recommendations will be made on how we analyze data and organizationally approach the topic of such labels to better support and affirm students
Please send me healing vibes : Affective connection in an online queer community
No full textThis presentation draws from my research with nine UK-based single and/or LGB (lesbian, gay or bisexual) parents who used adoption, donor conception, surrogacy or co-parenting arrangements to bring children into their lives. Each individual took part in three interviews over eleven months and shared selections of their digital interactions from a range of contexts, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp. The project considers how these participants construct their parenting practice in and through their digital connections with others, developing a theory of ‘parenting with connection’ and its three core components: epistemic connection, collective connection and affective connection, through a constructivist grounded theory approach (Charmaz 2014). In keeping with the symbolic interactionist roots of grounded theory, this theory of parenting with connection is process-focused, giving primacy to the construction of meanings, practices, selves and communities through action and interaction.
This presentation explores the theme of affective connection in relation to data from one of the gay male parents who took part in this study: Tony (pseudonyms used throughout). I focus on a selection of Tony’s posts to a private Facebook group for UK-based ‘Fae Revolutionaries’, a queer counter-cultural network originating in the U.S. during the 1970s gay rights movement. My close discourse analysis of these posts, alongside supporting interview data, explores the affective timbre of Tony’s communication in this digital context, with a particular focus on how affect shapes and mobilises his connections with this queer community. I argue that Tony’s posts are centred on embodied and spiritual expressions of connected feeling that go beyond the linguistic externalisation of individual emotion (as emphasised, for example, in Bednarek, 2008; Martin & White, 2005). I conceptualise this communicative practice as ‘affective connection’, suggesting that emotion and feeling shapes Tony’s connections with this community in a way that transcends the boundaries of individual minds, bodies, or indeed digital screens
Book Review: If Women Rose Rooted: A Life Changing Journey to Authenticity and Healing by Sharon Blackie
Get PDFCommunity forum: in conclusion
No full textThe online community forum is a virtual place for connection and continued discussion of the conference themes. All registered attendees are invited and encouraged to attend.
The closing forum on 3/19 will host an opportunity to share reflections and mingle with other participants from the 2021 Religion & Ecology Summit
One Word Sawalmem
No full textOne Word Sawalmem is a project that uses film and media content co-created by young native people, strategic partnerships and education initiatives to empower the youth climate movement with ancestral insight and inspiration. Natasha Deganello Giraudi and Michael Pom Preston, of the Winnmem Wintu tribe, co-direct the film in which he shares his story of personal transformation related to a single untranslatable word from his language — a word offered to humanity as medicine to heal our relationship with the Earth. Sawalmem, sacred water, is how the Winnemem Wintu tribe has always been in relationship with water. Coming from Northern California, where water is abundant, the tribe decided it was time to share the meaning of Sawalmem to help change the misconception of water as resource to water as sacred life giver
Black World, Plant World: A conversation about Spirituality and Ecology with Eduardo Duran and Rachel Bryant
No full textHealing Cosmovisions and Transformative Cosmopolitics
No full textIn many cultural stories, or cosmovisions, of “reality” and of “the people” healings take place in which reconnections, remembrances, and restorations occur. This talk focuses on two cultural expressions – Indigenous Northern Plains Peoples and Chinese Confucian thought – discussing the way cosmovisions reconnect humans to the generative life matrix, recall deep time, and restore creative energies for a functional cosmopolitics