Young, Disabled and LGBT+
Voices, Identities and Intersections
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Book Description
Young, Disabled and LGBT+ brings together the work of an international team interested in exploring the intersection of sexuality, gender identity, and disability in the lives of young people and aims to further develop this area as a distinct area of study.
This volume features original research and writing into lives that are often misunderstood, marginalised and under-represented in research. It is framed with artwork, poetry and writing from young disabled LGBT+ people, and centralises the voices and lives of young disabled LGBT+ people throughout. Drawing from disciplines including: sociology, psychology, disability and youth studies, and with contributions from practitioners, it examines experiences and research from a number of perspectives, such as education, personal lives and activism.
Featuring work from the UK, Canada, United States, India and Australia, it is a timely and topical book which will appeal to scholars particularly interested in sexuality, gender, disability and youth studies; professionals within health, education, social work and youth work who aim to understand and support young disabled LGBT+ people; and young people themselves.
Table of Contents
Artwork of Beth Ward
You be you
The Outsider
Diversity
Section 1. Theoretical and research landscapes
Introduction. Disguise
James Molloy
Chapter 1. Sexuality and gender identity in the lives of young, disabled LGBT+ persons: Initiating a Dialogue
Alex Toft and Anita Franklin
Chapter 2. Also Here, Also Queer: The Work of LGBT+ Disabled Activists/Scholars in "Cripping" Sexualities
Alan Santinele Martino
Chapter 3. The Psychosocial Coping of Multiply Marginalized LGBTQ+ Adolescents with Mental Health Issues
Debra A. Harley
Chapter 4. Developing a psychological understanding of the lived experiences of young lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans (LGBT+) people labelled with intellectual disability (ID)
Robert Dinwoodie and Beth Greenhill
Chapter 5. Centring the voices of disabled LGBT+ young people in research: Ethical and methodological considerations
Anita Franklin and Alex Toft
Section 2. Identity, experience and voice
Introduction. My life in Sport
Zach Brookes
Chapter 6. Lived Difference: Ordinariness and Misfitting in the Lives of Disabled and LGBT Youth
Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Chapter 7. Between and Betwixt: Experiences of Being Young, Trans and Disabled in India
Srilatha Juvva, Krupali Bidaye and Mahima Nayar
Chapter 8. Two Communities, One Family: Experiences of young Deaf LGBT+ people living in a minority within a minority.
Paul Michaels and Abigail Gorman
Chapter 9. Walking through treacle: The educational experiences of a group of young, disabled LGBT+ students
Deborah Philip
Chapter 10. Young, Disability and LGBT+ identities: Personal explorations of intersectional discrimination and support challenges
Vemel Ramasamy
Section 3. Support and Inclusion
Introduction. Why Spark has been good for me
Beth Ward
Chapter 11. ‘A Forbidden Topic’? Sexuality and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities
Paul Withers, with Tina McFay and Shane Beevers
Chapter 12. Creating an LGBTQ+ alliance in a specialist college setting in England:
Reflections from practice
Gillian Leno and Andrew Travers
Chapter 13. Towards expansive and inclusive relationship and sex education: Young disabled LGBT+ people’s ideas for change
Alex Toft and Anita Franklin
Editor(s)
Biography
Alex Toft is a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families at Nottingham Trent University. His research focuses upon sexuality, gender, disability, spirituality and identity. His publications include Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality: Critical Perspectives (2020, with Andrew Yip).
Anita Franklin is a Professor of Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses predominantly on disabled children and young people and their experiences of: decision-making, education, health and social care provision, child protection and issues of inequality and inclusion.