The authors used an interpretative phenomenological analysis of focus-group data provided by eight research participants to investigate microaggressions that target queer women at an urban Canadian university. Four themes emerged from the data that support and extend prior sexual orientation microaggressions typologies research: (a) facing skepticism as response to sexual orientation, (b) living with surveillance as response to gender presentation, (c) encountering heteronormative assumptions, and (d) experiencing vulnerability. The authors discuss these findings in the context of previous research, outline future research directions, and provide implications for campus life.
Journal article
2021-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
68
709 - 732
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Sexual orientation microaggressions, gender identity microaggressions, queer women, subtle discrimination, Adolescent, Aggression, Canada, Female, Focus Groups, Homosexuality, Female, Humans, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Universities, Women, Young Adult