Laura J Wernick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 244859 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura J Wernick |
| NOMBRES | Laura J |
| APELLIDO | Wernick |
| FIRMA | WERNICK L J |
| AFILIACIONES | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6785-4658 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Moving money to support social justice movements
Wealth inequality is rising, and millennials will be the future recipients of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer. Meanwhile, there is a need to move more money to support transformative social justice movements. This study examines the impact of spirituality as a motivator for the social justice movement giving among progressive young adult activists with wealth and class privilege, organizing toward the equitable redistribution of wea…
What would John do? Covid-19 stigmatization, social distance and race
Like many infectious diseases, COVID-19 is a heavily stigmatized and racialized health condition. The objective of the present study was to examine racial differences in COVID-19 stigmatization. To assess the intersection between COVID-19 stigmatization and race, we asked 568 individuals to respond to hypothetical vignettes, using a web-based survey. We presented respondents with the vignette of John, an individual infected with COVID-19 with an …
Action Steps Toward Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education
Despite social work’s commitment to social justice, ableism remains rampant among social work programs. Students and faculty often have to fight in order to have their basic accommodations and access needs met, disability is frequently missing from social work education’s discussions of diversity, and it is often implied that disabled people will be our clients, while social workers themselves are non-disabled. There is a glaring gap in our profe…
Anti-Ableist and Disability Justice Pedagogies in Social Work Education
Our personal and collective experiences of ableism and disability brought us together to envision anti-ableist and disability justice pedagogies in social work education. We begin by describing, defining, and reviewing key terminology and concepts, including disability, ableism, and saneism, by drawing on social work and interdisciplinary literature and situating disabled students’ and educators’ experiences in social work education. We provide d…
Race, masks, residency and concern regarding Covid‐19 transmission
To explore sociodemographic predictors for concern regarding COVID‐19 transmission and how these factors interact with the identities of others, we conducted a web‐based survey where we asked 568 respondents in the United States to indicate their level of COVID‐19 concern in response to a series of images with short vignettes of masked and unmasked individuals of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Using a linear mixed effects model, we found th…
Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing
Youth of Color in the United States are often leaders in movements for social justice. Evidence suggests that organizing has a positive macro-therapeutic effect on the mental health of young organizers; however, they can also experience strain and become targets of the very systems they are trying to change. In a community-based participatory action research study, three organizations that train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York …
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
Policing Gender and Sexuality in High School Sports
Participation in sport is often assumed to promote the healthy development of youth. However, research suggests that gender and sexuality policing in sports negatively impacts the self-esteem of LGBTQ + youth. Using moderated mediation analyses, findings suggest that hyper-surveillance and policing of sexual and gender norms, specifically masculinity, through the use of anti-LGBTQ + language in sport not only marginalizes LGBTQ + individuals, but…
Mask mandates, race, and protests of summer 2020
This study examined predictors to mask mandate support and racial justice protest participation across Asian (n = 103), Black (n = 102), white (n = 102) New York City residents, using binary logistic regressions. Participants with positive feelings about the racial justice movement were more likely to participate in the protests. White and Asian respondents were more likely to support the mask mandates over Black respondents. Asian respondents we…
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
Engaging youth voices to address racial disproportionality in schools
Influence of multicultural curriculum and role models on high school students’ willingness to intervene in anti-LGBTQ harassment
Finding Relief in Action
Youth of Color, especially those in households with low income, experience multiple stressors and trauma that affect their well-being. Few studies examine the impact of youth engagement in leadership and organizing to address systemic inequity on their mental health and well-being. In a community-based participatory action research design, three organizations which train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York, held four focus groups (…
Three strikes and you’re out
School-based sports and physical education play an important role in the development of youth (Jones, Edwards, et al., 2017), but participation in athletics is unequal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth compared to their straight/cisgender peers [Greenspan, S. B., Griffith, C., & Murtagh, E. F. (2017). LGBTQ youths’ school athletic experiences: A 40-year content analysis in nine flagship journals. Journal of LGBT Iss…
Gender Identity Disparities in Bathroom Safety and Wellbeing among High School Students
Heterosexism, Depression, and Campus Engagement Among LGBTQ College Students
LGBTQ people experience health disparities related to multilevel processes of sexual and gender marginalization, and intersections with racism can compound these challenges for LGBTQ people of color. Although community engagement may be protective for mental health broadly and for LGBTQ communities in buffering against heterosexism, little research has been conducted on the racialized dynamics of these processes among LGBTQ communities. This stud…
Critical Consciousness Development Impact on Social Justice Movement Giving among Wealthy Activists
Scholars and practitioners have suggested that people with privilege organize their own communities to affect greater action and leverage their power and privilege; however, little research has examined how such a model functions. Emerging research suggests that transformative organizing (TO) models can be modified to effectively move people with class privilege to take action while maintaining accountability to marginalized communities. Financia…
Theater and Dialogue to Increase Youth’s Intentions to Advocate for LGBTQQ People
Objective: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention using theater and dialogue to raise awareness about homophobia and transphobia and increase intentions to participate in macro-level change efforts around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) issues. Methods: Using a pretest–posttest design, this study examines changes in advocacy intentions around LGBTQQ issues among middle school and high school…
How Theater Within a Transformative Organizing Framework Cultivates Individual and Collective Empowerment Among LGBTQQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth experience oppression in their schools and communities, which creates barriers to their healthy development. Emerging research documents strategies to support LGBTQQ youth, but little is known about developing LGBTQQ youth empowerment. This study extracts qualitative data (key informant interviews, n = 8, and a focus group, n = 8) from a larger case study of an LGBTQQ yout…
LGBTQQ Youth Using Participatory Action Research and Theater to Effect Change
Research has documented the importance of empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and creating LGBTQQ-focused institutional changes in schools. However, little is known about youth-centered strategies in creating such institutional changes. This study examines how participatory action research (PAR) and theater can effect change among adult powerholders in schools and contribute to LGBTQQ-youth-center…
LGBTQQ youth creating change
Factors predicting student intervention when witnessing anti-LGBTQ harassment
Leveraging Privilege
Scholars and practitioners suggest that some people with power and privilege organize within their own communities to create change and help shape a just society. However, extant literature offers no model of how those with privilege organize to support these goals while remaining accountable to cross-class movements and avoiding replication of existing, unjust power structures. This mixed-methods case study examines how an organization of young …
Heterosexism, Depression, and Campus Engagement Among LGBTQ College Students
LGBTQ people experience health disparities related to multilevel processes of sexual and gender marginalization, and intersections with racism can compound these challenges for LGBTQ people of color. Although community engagement may be protective for mental health broadly and for LGBTQ communities in buffering against heterosexism, little research has been conducted on the racialized dynamics of these processes among LGBTQ communities. This stud…
LGBTQQ Youth Using Participatory Action Research and Theater to Effect Change
Research has documented the importance of empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and creating LGBTQQ-focused institutional changes in schools. However, little is known about youth-centered strategies in creating such institutional changes. This study examines how participatory action research (PAR) and theater can effect change among adult powerholders in schools and contribute to LGBTQQ-youth-center…
Three strikes and you’re out
School-based sports and physical education play an important role in the development of youth (Jones, Edwards, et al., 2017), but participation in athletics is unequal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth compared to their straight/cisgender peers [Greenspan, S. B., Griffith, C., & Murtagh, E. F. (2017). LGBTQ youths’ school athletic experiences: A 40-year content analysis in nine flagship journals. Journal of LGBT Iss…
Finding Relief in Action
Youth of Color, especially those in households with low income, experience multiple stressors and trauma that affect their well-being. Few studies examine the impact of youth engagement in leadership and organizing to address systemic inequity on their mental health and well-being. In a community-based participatory action research design, three organizations which train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York, held four focus groups (…
How Theater Within a Transformative Organizing Framework Cultivates Individual and Collective Empowerment Among LGBTQQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth experience oppression in their schools and communities, which creates barriers to their healthy development. Emerging research documents strategies to support LGBTQQ youth, but little is known about developing LGBTQQ youth empowerment. This study extracts qualitative data (key informant interviews, n = 8, and a focus group, n = 8) from a larger case study of an LGBTQQ yout…
Gender Identity Disparities in Bathroom Safety and Wellbeing among High School Students
Factors predicting student intervention when witnessing anti-LGBTQ harassment
Engaging youth voices to address racial disproportionality in schools
LGBTQQ youth creating change
Leveraging Privilege
Scholars and practitioners suggest that some people with power and privilege organize within their own communities to create change and help shape a just society. However, extant literature offers no model of how those with privilege organize to support these goals while remaining accountable to cross-class movements and avoiding replication of existing, unjust power structures. This mixed-methods case study examines how an organization of young …
Mask mandates, race, and protests of summer 2020
This study examined predictors to mask mandate support and racial justice protest participation across Asian (n = 103), Black (n = 102), white (n = 102) New York City residents, using binary logistic regressions. Participants with positive feelings about the racial justice movement were more likely to participate in the protests. White and Asian respondents were more likely to support the mask mandates over Black respondents. Asian respondents we…
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
Policing Gender and Sexuality in High School Sports
Participation in sport is often assumed to promote the healthy development of youth. However, research suggests that gender and sexuality policing in sports negatively impacts the self-esteem of LGBTQ + youth. Using moderated mediation analyses, findings suggest that hyper-surveillance and policing of sexual and gender norms, specifically masculinity, through the use of anti-LGBTQ + language in sport not only marginalizes LGBTQ + individuals, but…
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
Influence of multicultural curriculum and role models on high school students’ willingness to intervene in anti-LGBTQ harassment
Critical Consciousness Development Impact on Social Justice Movement Giving among Wealthy Activists
Scholars and practitioners have suggested that people with privilege organize their own communities to affect greater action and leverage their power and privilege; however, little research has examined how such a model functions. Emerging research suggests that transformative organizing (TO) models can be modified to effectively move people with class privilege to take action while maintaining accountability to marginalized communities. Financia…
Theater and Dialogue to Increase Youth’s Intentions to Advocate for LGBTQQ People
Objective: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention using theater and dialogue to raise awareness about homophobia and transphobia and increase intentions to participate in macro-level change efforts around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) issues. Methods: Using a pretest–posttest design, this study examines changes in advocacy intentions around LGBTQQ issues among middle school and high school…
Leveraging Privilege
Scholars and practitioners suggest that some people with power and privilege organize within their own communities to create change and help shape a just society. However, extant literature offers no model of how those with privilege organize to support these goals while remaining accountable to cross-class movements and avoiding replication of existing, unjust power structures. This mixed-methods case study examines how an organization of young …
LGBTQQ youth creating change
Factors predicting student intervention when witnessing anti-LGBTQ harassment
Theater and Dialogue to Increase Youth’s Intentions to Advocate for LGBTQQ People
Objective: This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention using theater and dialogue to raise awareness about homophobia and transphobia and increase intentions to participate in macro-level change efforts around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) issues. Methods: Using a pretest–posttest design, this study examines changes in advocacy intentions around LGBTQQ issues among middle school and high school…
How Theater Within a Transformative Organizing Framework Cultivates Individual and Collective Empowerment Among LGBTQQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth experience oppression in their schools and communities, which creates barriers to their healthy development. Emerging research documents strategies to support LGBTQQ youth, but little is known about developing LGBTQQ youth empowerment. This study extracts qualitative data (key informant interviews, n = 8, and a focus group, n = 8) from a larger case study of an LGBTQQ yout…
LGBTQQ Youth Using Participatory Action Research and Theater to Effect Change
Research has documented the importance of empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and creating LGBTQQ-focused institutional changes in schools. However, little is known about youth-centered strategies in creating such institutional changes. This study examines how participatory action research (PAR) and theater can effect change among adult powerholders in schools and contribute to LGBTQQ-youth-center…
Critical Consciousness Development Impact on Social Justice Movement Giving among Wealthy Activists
Scholars and practitioners have suggested that people with privilege organize their own communities to affect greater action and leverage their power and privilege; however, little research has examined how such a model functions. Emerging research suggests that transformative organizing (TO) models can be modified to effectively move people with class privilege to take action while maintaining accountability to marginalized communities. Financia…
Gender Identity Disparities in Bathroom Safety and Wellbeing among High School Students
Heterosexism, Depression, and Campus Engagement Among LGBTQ College Students
LGBTQ people experience health disparities related to multilevel processes of sexual and gender marginalization, and intersections with racism can compound these challenges for LGBTQ people of color. Although community engagement may be protective for mental health broadly and for LGBTQ communities in buffering against heterosexism, little research has been conducted on the racialized dynamics of these processes among LGBTQ communities. This stud…
Three strikes and you’re out
School-based sports and physical education play an important role in the development of youth (Jones, Edwards, et al., 2017), but participation in athletics is unequal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth compared to their straight/cisgender peers [Greenspan, S. B., Griffith, C., & Murtagh, E. F. (2017). LGBTQ youths’ school athletic experiences: A 40-year content analysis in nine flagship journals. Journal of LGBT Iss…
Finding Relief in Action
Youth of Color, especially those in households with low income, experience multiple stressors and trauma that affect their well-being. Few studies examine the impact of youth engagement in leadership and organizing to address systemic inequity on their mental health and well-being. In a community-based participatory action research design, three organizations which train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York, held four focus groups (…
Engaging youth voices to address racial disproportionality in schools
Influence of multicultural curriculum and role models on high school students’ willingness to intervene in anti-LGBTQ harassment
Mask mandates, race, and protests of summer 2020
This study examined predictors to mask mandate support and racial justice protest participation across Asian (n = 103), Black (n = 102), white (n = 102) New York City residents, using binary logistic regressions. Participants with positive feelings about the racial justice movement were more likely to participate in the protests. White and Asian respondents were more likely to support the mask mandates over Black respondents. Asian respondents we…
Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions
In the United States and Canada, the adult disability community numbers 27 percent and 16 percent to 33 percent of the population, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2017; Varadaraj et al., 2019). Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work (Slayter & Johnson, 2022). In this Commentary, we use a mix of identity-first disability language and p…
Race, masks, residency and concern regarding Covid‐19 transmission
To explore sociodemographic predictors for concern regarding COVID‐19 transmission and how these factors interact with the identities of others, we conducted a web‐based survey where we asked 568 respondents in the United States to indicate their level of COVID‐19 concern in response to a series of images with short vignettes of masked and unmasked individuals of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Using a linear mixed effects model, we found th…
Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing
Youth of Color in the United States are often leaders in movements for social justice. Evidence suggests that organizing has a positive macro-therapeutic effect on the mental health of young organizers; however, they can also experience strain and become targets of the very systems they are trying to change. In a community-based participatory action research study, three organizations that train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York …
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
Policing Gender and Sexuality in High School Sports
Participation in sport is often assumed to promote the healthy development of youth. However, research suggests that gender and sexuality policing in sports negatively impacts the self-esteem of LGBTQ + youth. Using moderated mediation analyses, findings suggest that hyper-surveillance and policing of sexual and gender norms, specifically masculinity, through the use of anti-LGBTQ + language in sport not only marginalizes LGBTQ + individuals, but…
What would John do? Covid-19 stigmatization, social distance and race
Like many infectious diseases, COVID-19 is a heavily stigmatized and racialized health condition. The objective of the present study was to examine racial differences in COVID-19 stigmatization. To assess the intersection between COVID-19 stigmatization and race, we asked 568 individuals to respond to hypothetical vignettes, using a web-based survey. We presented respondents with the vignette of John, an individual infected with COVID-19 with an …
Action Steps Toward Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education
Despite social work’s commitment to social justice, ableism remains rampant among social work programs. Students and faculty often have to fight in order to have their basic accommodations and access needs met, disability is frequently missing from social work education’s discussions of diversity, and it is often implied that disabled people will be our clients, while social workers themselves are non-disabled. There is a glaring gap in our profe…
Anti-Ableist and Disability Justice Pedagogies in Social Work Education
Our personal and collective experiences of ableism and disability brought us together to envision anti-ableist and disability justice pedagogies in social work education. We begin by describing, defining, and reviewing key terminology and concepts, including disability, ableism, and saneism, by drawing on social work and interdisciplinary literature and situating disabled students’ and educators’ experiences in social work education. We provide d…
Moving money to support social justice movements
Wealth inequality is rising, and millennials will be the future recipients of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer. Meanwhile, there is a need to move more money to support transformative social justice movements. This study examines the impact of spirituality as a motivator for the social justice movement giving among progressive young adult activists with wealth and class privilege, organizing toward the equitable redistribution of wea…
Sociology (19 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (7 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 obras)