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Transness is our salve: How trans identity facilitates healing from relational trauma with parental figures

Journal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 616-628, August 2026.
Abstract Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience high rates of relational trauma from parental figures, yet their pathways to healing remain underexplored. This qualitative study used constructivist grounded theory to develop a theoretical framework of how TNB adults heal from parental relational trauma.
Joonwoo Lee, Sebastian Barr, Alberta M. Gloria, Tonya J. Roberts, Stephanie L. Budge   +4 more
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To Arrive Is to Begin: Benjamin Sáenz's Carry Me Like Water and the Pilgrimage of Origin in the Borderlands

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001
This essay examines the "pilgrimage of origin" as presented in Benjamin Sáenz's novel Carry Me Like Water . As is the case with other ethnic literature, Carry Me Like Water teaches us that we must first go back before we can move forward and transform
Alberto López Pulido
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
wiley   +1 more source

Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street: The Bildungsroman and Identity Formation

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
This article employs the psychosocial theories of Erik Erikson on identity development to negotiate the growth and learning process of Esperanza Cordero, the young adolescent heroine of Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street (1984).
Shadi S. Neimneh
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Loving, Luchando, and Literacy: Bilingual Latinx Mothers and the Power of Testimonios in a Community Book Club

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
This study centers bilingual Latinx mothers who engaged in cuentos and testimonios alongside their children during a community book club. Their stories, rooted in love, language, and resistance, challenge deficit narratives and redefine literacy as relational, multimodal, and culturally grounded—positioning mothers as powerful pedagogues and cultural ...
Celina‐Maria Espinosa de Rosales, Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Lenny Sánchez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2018
Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo in traditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality ...
Nathália Araújo Duarte Gouvêa
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Living/leaving la vida loca: on barrios, Chicano youth and gangs.

Odisea, 2017
: Most US barrios are characterized by abundant academic failure, insufficient educational resources and high unemployment rates. In this context, the street becomes a place in which lower class Chicano kids find a space they belong to and a communal tie
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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Thinking Care Through Intersectionality: Toward a Critical Epistemology of Care in Nursing Sciences

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite their proclaimed universality, healthcare systems produce systematic inequities shaped by intersecting axes of power, a paradox that intersectionality is uniquely positioned to address. This philosophical‑reflexive inquiry proposes repositioning intersectionality within nursing sciences not merely as an analytical framework but as the ...
Aline Chenou, Valérie Wilmé, Nadia Tiberti, Erik‐André Sauleau, Sabrina Garnier‐Kepka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joy and Unrest: Transborder College Students' Sense of Belonging at the US–México Borderlands

New Directions for Higher Education, Volume 2026, Issue 214, Page 5-14, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT In this study, we present the Transborder College Student Sense of Belonging Model, developed to understand how to create an inclusive and validating campus climate for Transborder students in postsecondary and higher education institutions along the US–México borderlands.
Vannessa Falcón Orta, Carlos A. Fitch, Efren M. Lopez, Gilberto Reyes Morgan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Curating Structural Sense of Belonging Among Minoritized Students: A Case Study of the Performing Arts

New Directions for Higher Education, Volume 2026, Issue 214, Page 61-68, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding collegiate norms and practices that promote sense of belonging among students who have traditionally been raced, gendered, stigmatized, and excluded as the ‘other’ in predominantly white institutions (PWI) is of paramount importance today as these efforts face increasingly antagonistic legislation, state policies, and ...
Nkenji K. Clarke, Rola Tarek Mohamed, Alicia C. Dowd, Sharmistha Barat   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source