Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate

Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts situates and problematizes identity interaction, campus life, student experiences, and the effectiveness of services, programs, and policies affecting LGBTQIA college students at both two- and four-year institutions. This volume draws from intersectional and critical perspectives to explore the complex ways in which LGBTQIA identities are shaped, discussed, and researched in higher education spaces. Chapters provide student affairs and higher education scholars with theory and practice perspectives on sociopolitical and historical contexts, student learning and development, support services, and explore how higher education reflects society?s pervasive stereotypes and lack of awareness of LGBTQIA students? identity development and needs.

Foreword Preface: Reflecting on Identity, Reframing Policies, and Reshaping Higher Education Part I: Rethinking LGBTQIA Identity 1. Multiplicity of LGBTQ+ Identities, Intersections, and Challenges 2. How Intersex Identities Shape Sex and Gender: What’s at Stake in Postsecondary Education? 3. Gender, Kinship, and Student Services: A Dialogue Centering Trans Narratives in Higher Education 4. Exploring the Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Collegians with Disabilities: Maybe I Exist Part II: Rethinking Contexts 5. Assessing the Classroom "Space" for LGBTQ+ Students 6. Asexual Student Invisiblity and Erasure in Higher Education: "I Thought I was the Only One" 7. Revealing the Potential for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to be Liberatory Environments for Queer Students: (Re)Centering the Narrative 8. LGBTQ+ Matters and the Community College: Policy and Program Considerations for Students, Faculty, and Staff Part III: Rethinking Policies and Possibilities 9. Challenging Complicity and Institutional Racism: The Role of Critical White Queer Academics 10. Trickle Up Policy-Building: Envisioning Possibilities for Trans*formative Change in Postsecondary Education 11. Trans QuantCrit: An Invitation to a ThirdSpace for Higher Education Quantitative Researchers 12. Ending Allies through the Eradication of the Ally (Industrial) Complex Afterword

Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is Professor of Higher Education/Community College Leadership and Associate Head of the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Devika Dibya Choudhuri is Professor of Counseling at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

Jason L. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah, USA.