Surviving the After: Post-Transfer Life for Queer Latinx Students in Exclusionary Four-Year Institutions

• In Event: Beyond Enrollment: Latinx Belonging, Resilience, and Justice in Higher Education

Abstract

This study explores how the multilayered identities of first-generation, Latinx, LGBTQ2+ transfer students shape their college journeys. Whiteness, heteronormativity, and settler colonialism pervade post-secondary institutions, creating layered structural barriers for this population. Using pláticas, a narrative-based interview method rooted in Latinx traditions, this study explores the college journeys of first-generation, Latinx, LGBTQ2+ transfer students.

Author

• Armando Zavala, California State University - Channel Islands