| Title: |
‘More than lip service’: LGBTQ+ Social Justice Educational Interventions as Institutional Benign Neglect |
| Authors: |
Catalano, D. Chase J.; Tillapaugh, Daniel; Christiaens, Roman; Simms, Sy |
| Source: |
The Review of Higher Education ; ISSN 1090-7009 |
| Publisher Information: |
Project MUSE |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1353/rhe.0.a913752 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.0.a913752 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.E003C598 |
| Database: |
BASE |