Building Community within the Community: Establishing Relationships with LGBTQIA+ Service Providers to Inform Our Community Engaged Teaching and Research on Victimization

• In Event: Teaching Queer Victimology

Abstract

LGBTQIA+ individuals continue to be at the forefront of legislation and a national conversation regarding human rights, victimization, and violence. Fear, misunderstanding, and prejudice often serve as driving forces for proposed legislation and individual opinion regarding queer identities. Providing real world exposure to these communities, their lived experiences, and their needs within the field of victimization can assist in improving the educational experience of our students as well as lessening misconceptions within the public. Drawing from a case study of individual experiences working with a LGBTQIA+ community service provider, this presentation will discuss how community engaged research and teaching with LGBTQIA+ community service providers may help our queer students feel more seen, educate all our students on lived experience and victimization within LGBTQIA+ populations, and establish lasting working alliances to better inform community engaged teaching and research in these spaces, while also helping to promote LGBTQIA+ service agencies.

Author

• Philip Mulvey, Sam Houston State University