Kathleen M Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen M Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9264-9602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Healing from heterosexism
Background: Expressive writing exercises are associated with psychological benefits for LGBTQ + adults processing sexual minority stressors, but the processes through which this occurs remain unclear.Methods: A discovery-oriented task analysis was conducted on emotion-focused expressive writing responses about troubling heterosexist experiences. Eighteen cases were analyzed in total.Results: The analyses produced a four-stage model that describes…
Heterosexism and the self
Healing from heterosexist experiences
Coping, resilience, and social support among transgender and gender diverse individuals experiencing gender-related stress
Making intelligible the controversies over femme identities
Quite a number of heated arguments have been put forth in the controversy about the meanings and appropriate uses of femme identities. In this article, the authors apply a functionalist theoretical framework, developed to explicate the links between gender and gender identities, to reframe the disputes about femme gender. They position two femme identities as responding to distinctive forms of oppression-one that centralizes the affirmation of ge…
How discrimination in adoptive, foster, and medical systems harms LGBTQ+ families
LGBTQ+ people face multiple challenges to parenthood because of barriers such as discriminatory legislation and policies influencing foster parenting, adoption, and reproductive health services. This study documents these obstacles and examines their impact through a grounded theory analysis of interviews of LGBTQ+ prospective parents. Stressors included social isolation, unnecessary medicalization, prohibitive financial costs related to accessin…
Peeling Back the Layers
Expressive writing exercises, in which participants self-reflect upon a difficult experience, are widely researched interventions. These exercises have been adapted to address a host of concerns, including trauma, mental distress, physical health, and minority stress. Although several theories exist about the mechanisms through which expressive writing yields psychological benefits, the direct perspectives of those who have completed expressive w…
Literacy Education and Disability Studies
In this commentary, the authors present disability studies in education ( DSE ) as an alternative way to reframe, understand, and teach students who are positioned as struggling in literacy classrooms. As the authors detail, a DSE perspective changes the relationship between teachers and students to a more reciprocal one, and in doing so, it relocates the source of and responsibility for literacy struggles. The authors begin with a discussion of …
When the light turns blue
Ellen Brantlinger's research and activism created opportunities for scholars who seek to locate and interrupt the social processes that shape educational inequities. In this essay, we reflect on Ellen's contributions by identifying three key signposts – lessons from Ellen's work that guided our own journeys and shaped the field of disability studies in education. These signposts include the assertions that (1) qualitative research is essential to…
A Disability Studies Response to JTE’s Themed Issue on Diversity and Disability in Teacher Education
In a recent themed issue of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE 63.4) about of disability, diversity, and teacher education, guest editors Marleen Pugach, Linda Blanton, and Lani Florian (2012) invite readers to participate in honest, difficult, and much needed dialogue across the many diversity constituencies in teacher (p. 235). In this commentary, I extend the dialogue begun in this special themed issue by considering the affordances of a Disabi…
Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson
In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson and the participants. The author’s analysis of the classroom interactions makes visible how participants colluded to position one student in particular, Larnell, as a “bad, bad boy,” and worked to ultimately exclude him from the classroom community. The study has implications …
How discrimination in adoptive, foster, and medical systems harms LGBTQ+ families
LGBTQ+ people face multiple challenges to parenthood because of barriers such as discriminatory legislation and policies influencing foster parenting, adoption, and reproductive health services. This study documents these obstacles and examines their impact through a grounded theory analysis of interviews of LGBTQ+ prospective parents. Stressors included social isolation, unnecessary medicalization, prohibitive financial costs related to accessin…
Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson
In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson and the participants. The author’s analysis of the classroom interactions makes visible how participants colluded to position one student in particular, Larnell, as a “bad, bad boy,” and worked to ultimately exclude him from the classroom community. The study has implications …
Healing from heterosexist experiences
Coping, resilience, and social support among transgender and gender diverse individuals experiencing gender-related stress
Making intelligible the controversies over femme identities
Quite a number of heated arguments have been put forth in the controversy about the meanings and appropriate uses of femme identities. In this article, the authors apply a functionalist theoretical framework, developed to explicate the links between gender and gender identities, to reframe the disputes about femme gender. They position two femme identities as responding to distinctive forms of oppression-one that centralizes the affirmation of ge…
Peeling Back the Layers
Expressive writing exercises, in which participants self-reflect upon a difficult experience, are widely researched interventions. These exercises have been adapted to address a host of concerns, including trauma, mental distress, physical health, and minority stress. Although several theories exist about the mechanisms through which expressive writing yields psychological benefits, the direct perspectives of those who have completed expressive w…
Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson
In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson and the participants. The author’s analysis of the classroom interactions makes visible how participants colluded to position one student in particular, Larnell, as a “bad, bad boy,” and worked to ultimately exclude him from the classroom community. The study has implications …
When the light turns blue
Ellen Brantlinger's research and activism created opportunities for scholars who seek to locate and interrupt the social processes that shape educational inequities. In this essay, we reflect on Ellen's contributions by identifying three key signposts – lessons from Ellen's work that guided our own journeys and shaped the field of disability studies in education. These signposts include the assertions that (1) qualitative research is essential to…
A Disability Studies Response to JTE’s Themed Issue on Diversity and Disability in Teacher Education
In a recent themed issue of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE 63.4) about of disability, diversity, and teacher education, guest editors Marleen Pugach, Linda Blanton, and Lani Florian (2012) invite readers to participate in honest, difficult, and much needed dialogue across the many diversity constituencies in teacher (p. 235). In this commentary, I extend the dialogue begun in this special themed issue by considering the affordances of a Disabi…
Literacy Education and Disability Studies
In this commentary, the authors present disability studies in education ( DSE ) as an alternative way to reframe, understand, and teach students who are positioned as struggling in literacy classrooms. As the authors detail, a DSE perspective changes the relationship between teachers and students to a more reciprocal one, and in doing so, it relocates the source of and responsibility for literacy struggles. The authors begin with a discussion of …
Coping, resilience, and social support among transgender and gender diverse individuals experiencing gender-related stress
Making intelligible the controversies over femme identities
Quite a number of heated arguments have been put forth in the controversy about the meanings and appropriate uses of femme identities. In this article, the authors apply a functionalist theoretical framework, developed to explicate the links between gender and gender identities, to reframe the disputes about femme gender. They position two femme identities as responding to distinctive forms of oppression-one that centralizes the affirmation of ge…
How discrimination in adoptive, foster, and medical systems harms LGBTQ+ families
LGBTQ+ people face multiple challenges to parenthood because of barriers such as discriminatory legislation and policies influencing foster parenting, adoption, and reproductive health services. This study documents these obstacles and examines their impact through a grounded theory analysis of interviews of LGBTQ+ prospective parents. Stressors included social isolation, unnecessary medicalization, prohibitive financial costs related to accessin…
Peeling Back the Layers
Expressive writing exercises, in which participants self-reflect upon a difficult experience, are widely researched interventions. These exercises have been adapted to address a host of concerns, including trauma, mental distress, physical health, and minority stress. Although several theories exist about the mechanisms through which expressive writing yields psychological benefits, the direct perspectives of those who have completed expressive w…
Healing from heterosexism
Background: Expressive writing exercises are associated with psychological benefits for LGBTQ + adults processing sexual minority stressors, but the processes through which this occurs remain unclear.Methods: A discovery-oriented task analysis was conducted on emotion-focused expressive writing responses about troubling heterosexist experiences. Eighteen cases were analyzed in total.Results: The analyses produced a four-stage model that describes…
Heterosexism and the self
Healing from heterosexist experiences
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)