Creating Safe and Brave Spaces on Gender and Sexuality Via Autoethnography Assignments on Campus

Authors

Emily Wells, Utah State UniversityFollow
Ilyena Wagner, Utah State UniversityFollow
Audrey Thomas, Utah State UniversityFollow

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Description

Discrimination is still a prominent and widely faced issue on college campuses across the United States, especially in the case of gender and sexuality. Many college environments are unsafe spaces for those whose identities fall outside of the socially accepted norms and can lead to dangerous isolation and feelings of invisibility. Issues faced by students in the LGBTQ+ community and their health and well-being have only been studied more recently, and further research is required to build a safe college environment for all students. This study explores the use of autoethnographies as a method of improving campus environments and analyzes perception changes within autoethnographies as they relate to identities such as sexuality, gender, race, class, mental health, or religion.

Publication Date

12-9-2021

City

Logan, UT

Keywords

discrimination, gender, LGBTQ, safety

Disciplines

Sociology

Recommended Citation

Wells, Emily; Wagner, Ilyena; and Thomas, Audrey, "Creating Safe and Brave Spaces on Gender and Sexuality Via Autoethnography Assignments on Campus" (2021). Fall Student Research Symposium 2021. 87.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fsrs2021/87