A Place for Us: Exploring Gender and Sexuality Resource Centers Within the Postsecondary Orgscape

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Author(s): Jesse Beal (University of Michigan, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 14
Source title: LGBTQIA Students in Higher Education: Approaches to Student Identity and Policy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kaity Prieto (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)and Andrew Herridge (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2853-8.ch010

Keywords: Higher Education / Information Science Reference / LGBTQ+ Studies / Medicine & Healthcare

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Gender and sexuality resource centers (GSRCs) are identity-based resource centers focused on LGBTQIA2S+ identities and communities. This chapter employs a critical organizational theory lens to explore how genderism and cisheterosexism serve as organizing principles for higher education institutions (HEIs). Through the organizational placement and resourcing (financial and human resources) of GSRCs, HEIs allow GSRCs to exist as long as they serve as symbols of the inclusiveness of the organization and validation of the organization's benevolence.

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