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Coming Out As Complex: Understanding Lgbtq+ Community Writing Groups, Hillary Weiss
Coming Out As Complex: Understanding Lgbtq+ Community Writing Groups, Hillary Weiss
Wayne State University Dissertations
Though composition studies has increasingly studied writing spaces outside of the classroom and workplace, LGBTQ+ community writing groups have received little focus in composition research. This dissertation studies four LGBTQ+ community writing groups across North America to find why people choose to join these groups and how power and conflict function in these spaces. I argue that LGBTQ+ writing groups improve writing and offer emotional support, friendship, and community, as other writing groups do, but these particular spaces also provide group members with opportunities to improve one’s self, publish, and educate the community about LGBTQ+ issues. I also find that …