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Preparing Social Workers For Practice With Lgbt Populations Affected By Substance Use: Perceptions From Students, Alumni And Service Providers, Michael P. Dentato Phd, Msw, Brian Kelly, Michael R. Lloyd, Nikki Busch
Preparing Social Workers For Practice With Lgbt Populations Affected By Substance Use: Perceptions From Students, Alumni And Service Providers, Michael P. Dentato Phd, Msw, Brian Kelly, Michael R. Lloyd, Nikki Busch
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
Trends in the field of service among those with alcohol and other drug addictions highlight the urgent need for schools of social work to effectively train students to serve clients with substance use disorders, and have cultural humility to effectively serve disproportionately affected LGBT consumers. Online surveys and interviews examined perceptions of graduate social work students and alumni in a certified alcohol and drug counselor program, along with several service providers within an urban setting in the US. Results indicated that students and alumni did not feel adequately prepared through coursework to practice with LGBT populations affected by substance use, …
Girl Crush: Liminal Identities And Lesbian Love In Children's Cartoons, Madison Bradley
Girl Crush: Liminal Identities And Lesbian Love In Children's Cartoons, Madison Bradley
Media and Communication Studies Summer Fellows
A textual analysis of the cartoon Steven Universe, this project takes a semiotic approach to explore anti-essentialist messages of gender identity. I argue that within the mainstream media, the cartoon expresses prosocial messages about gender by representing nonbinary characters and gender fluid themes. Using children’s media studies, queer studies, and reception studies, I investigate how the show portrays liminal identities. In particular, I focus on how lesbian existence and gender fluidity are simultaneously normalized and othered through the text’s visuals and dialogue. Critically analyzing the ways in which the media represents queerness as ‘too adult,’ this study reveals that children’s …
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998.
Interview keywords: Outfront, Chaplain's Office, Catholicism, religious, relationships, student involvement, government
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross Alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the interviewee’s transition to the Holy Cross community, extracurricular involvements, spiritual life, and career in student services at St. Benedictine College in New York state.
Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Office of Student Affairs
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1970.
Interview keywords: social movements, 1960's, activism
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1973.
Interview keywords: theater, law, Fenwick Scholar, Vietnam War
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998. Highlights of this conversation include content on being bisexual at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: ABiGale, bisexuality
A Conversation With George Grattan
A Conversation With George Grattan
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1991. Highlights of this conversation include George's reflections on the Holy Cross campus climate during the early 1990's, bisexuality, and the coming out process.
Interview keywords: closet, college, coming out, family, Jesuit, professional life, study abroad, support
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1968. Highlights of this conversation include reflections on living as a closeted transgender person at Holy Cross in the 1960's and her transgender outreach efforts following her time at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: activists, academics, basketball, closet, colleges, coming out, communities, compartmentalisation, Digital Transgender Archive, conferences, educators, free inquiry, intersex, Jesuit, musicians, provision of information, relationships, Roman Catholicism, sports, sportspersons, students, transgender community, transgender identity, transgender people, writers