Kimberly D Hudson
Biographic Data
| ID | 170627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly D Hudson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudson |
| SIGNATURE | HUDSON K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9231-8312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social workers’ support of the status quo: Results from a national survey
Social work has an intimate and complex relationship with the systems that shape the social, political, economic, and environmental fabric of the United States. System justification theory helps explain why people are motivated to accept the status quo of systems and unequal social arrangements. This study examined the system-justifying beliefs of a national sample ( N = 516) of master’s-level social workers to better understand how beliefs about…
Social Work Literature and Gendered Racism: A Scoping Review
A formal evaluation of social work literature on the topic of gendered racism has yet to be undertaken. Accordingly, authors present a scoping review of peer-reviewed social work literature on gendered racism. Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework, databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles including the term “gendered raci*” and published by social work scholars or journals since 1991. In the sample of 33 artic…
Exploring the intersections of LGBTQ experience and social work education: A scoping review
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues, experiences, and theorizing have had limited representation within social work education. In recent years there has been an increase in the scholarly discourse regarding queer and trans issues and social work education, but little is known about the landscape of this body of published work. In this scoping review, we explored peer-reviewed literature regarding the intersections of soc…
Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults
Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender expansive, and queer (LGBTQ) health is dominated by disparities in disease, access, and risk behaviors. Such research is critical for examining the myriad factors that limit the lives of gender and sexual minorities. Few studies, however, have explored LGBTQ people's concepts of health. People's accounts of health are important, as they reveal insights into a person's relationship to the soci…
Nonclinical best practices for creating LGBTQ-inclusive care environments: A scoping review of gray literature
Guidelines for LGBTQ-inclusive care have been developed by a number of expert organizations to mitigate significant barriers to accessing quality physical and mental health care. This scoping review synthesized nonclinical best practices for creating LGBTQ-affirming care environments as described in 12 publicly available resources. Results were organized into seven domains: (1) interpersonal quality; (2) visual cues in the physical environment; (…
Dual pandemics or a syndemic? Racism, Covid-19, and opportunities for antiracist social work
In this article, we critically engage the “dual pandemics” framing of this special issue. We first consider the key assumptions of this popular frame, specifically the conceptualization of racism as a pandemic, and examine limitations of medicalizing racism. We follow with an introduction of the term syndemic, coined by public health scholar Merrill Singer, and discuss how the language of syndemics might accurately characterize the synergism and …
Pandemic and protest in 2020: Questions and considerations for social work research
The convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and social/political protest concerning structural anti-Black racism marks a moment for deep reflection and revision of many taken-for-granted assumptions about our research and academic lives as social work scholars. In this reflexive essay we, as two non-Black qualitative social work scholars, explore some of the questions and considerations for social work research that have surfaced since the emergence…
Intersectional Social Work Practice: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Peer-Reviewed Recommendations
In the past decade, the use of intersectionality in social work scholarship has grown tremendously. Various applications of intersectionality theorizing have led to new approaches in social work research and, ultimately, have informed implications for practice. In this study, we used critical interpretive synthesis to explore how social work scholars articulate practice implications of an intersectional framework. Seventeen peer-reviewed journal …
“Render a service worthy of me”: A qualitative study of factors influencing access to LGBTQ-specific health services
For a half-century, LGBTQ-specific health services have sought to address the unmet health care needs of LGBTQ people in the U.S. However, there is a dearth of research examining factors that influence LGBTQ care-seekers’ reasons for choosing LGBTQ-specific services and their experiences accessing care. This interview-based study explored factors that facilitate and inhibit access to LGBTQ-specific health services among a sample of 40 LGBTQ adult…
Operationalizing Intersectionality in Social Work Research: Approaches and Limitations
Despite intersectionality’s relevance to social work, scholars have raised concerns that its misguided applications place it “in danger of being co-opted, depoliticized, and diluted.” This scoping review examined the use of intersectionality in empirical social work research, specific to the extent, contexts, and degree of responsibility with which it has been applied. Using the search term convention [“social work” OR “social services”] AND [“in…
That is when I changed and my whole life changed”: Turning points in health perceptions among LGBTQ adults of color
This study explored turning points in health perceptions among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults of color living in a major US city. Turning points in health perceptions were elicited from 38 participants through in-depth interviews and were examined using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Findings revealed three key themes: (a) diagnosis and disease; (b) death or illness of family and friends; and (c) changes in…
We Are Powerful People: Health-Promoting Strengths of LGBTQ Communities of Color
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color experience intersecting systems of oppression that limit access to health care, safety, and other basic resources. Important research has documented these disparities, their antecedents, and consequences. However, little research has examined the strengths of multiply marginalized LGBTQ communities. Drawing from a health equity framework, this study is based on interviews…
Identity-conscious services for diverse patients: A descriptive analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-focused federally qualified community health centers
Significant health disparities affect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population. There has been growing attention to these disparities, with research focused on issues such as barriers to care, provider education, and disparate outcomes across the life course. However, there has been little research on the role of LGBT-focused health care settings. The objective of this study was to describe the patient populations and service…
A critical examination of key assumptions underlying diversity and social justice courses in social work
This article examines underlying assumptions of Master of Social Work diversity and social justice courses as sites that embody social work’s dual projects of social justice and professionalization. Through a latent content analysis of course syllabi from 27 US-based social work programs, three key assumptions emerged: (1) social workers are members of dominant social groups; (2) cultural competency and anti-oppression are compatible frameworks; …
(Un)doing Transmisogynist Stigma in Health Care Settings: Experiences of Ten Transgender Women of Color
Transgender women of color face numerous barriers to accessing quality health and human services due to intersecting systems of oppression. Using transmisogyny as a conceptual tool, the current study drew upon individual, in-depth interviews with ten transgender women of color living in New York City. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the experiences of participants in care settings and compare their experiences in …
What Are We Teaching in Diversity and Social Justice Courses? A Qualitative Content Analysis of MSW Syllabi
Diversity and social justice are central to social work and related curricular content is mandated by accreditation standards. However, research regarding diversity and social justice courses remains limited. This study aimed to better understand how these courses are conceptualized through a qualitative content analysis of course descriptions and objectives from 27 MSW course syllabi. Findings were organized into themes related to knowledge, ski…
With Equality and Opportunity for All? Emerging Scholars Define Social Justice for Social Work
Social justice is globally acknowledged as a guiding principle in social work professional doctrines. Yet, a lack of conceptual and practical clarity concerning the role of social justice in social work persists. In particular, little is known about how doctoral students conceptualise social justice for social work. The present study emerges from a national survey of Ph.D. students in social work in the USA asking: ‘What are some of the core comp…
Individual and systemic barriers to health care: Perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults
Access to effective services is imperative to address the many health and mental health disparities that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people face. This population, however, remains underserved and often ill-served in health care environments. Furthermore, interactions between system- and individual-level dimensions of access create barriers to service engagement. Within much of the extant literature surrounding health care barri…
Dangerous Waters and Brave Space: A Critical Feminist Inquiry of Campus LGBTQ Centers
Grounded in critical feminisms, this study examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) centers at public universities in the context of the regulating discourse of homonormative whiteness. Homonormative whiteness refers to dominant norms that constitute the queer body as White and male, positioning static ideas of whiteness and masculinity as normative. Interviews, including the use of mental maps, were conducted with 12 prima…
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado: Una intervención para inculcar la justicia social en el curriculum de los programas de bienestar social
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective
Although previous research indicates a positive relationship between community belonging and well-being, little is known about how this relationship is experienced within diverse communities. In this study, interviews were conducted with 12 queer-mixed-identified individuals. Proposed is a conceptual framework for understanding how and why experiences of community belonging contribute to and detract from well-being. Specifically, the dimensions b…
Teaching Note—Infusing Social Justice Into Doctoral Programs of Social Welfare: An Incremental Approach
This article describes an effort to further infuse social justice education into doctoral programs in social welfare. It articulates the rationale and tactical approaches for aligning mission statements with the operational realities of university contexts. Within 1 school of social work, doctoral students with diverse orientations to social justice came together to articulate a vision for social justice education that expanded the educational co…
Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge
Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that have defined both the potentialities and the limitations of community as a liberatory and/or liberated space. This article sheds light on how ambiguously identified, bodied, and placed people are affected by cultures and systems of oppression in ways that create unique tensions with community and generate knowledge …
Dangerous Waters and Brave Space: A Critical Feminist Inquiry of Campus LGBTQ Centers
Grounded in critical feminisms, this study examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) centers at public universities in the context of the regulating discourse of homonormative whiteness. Homonormative whiteness refers to dominant norms that constitute the queer body as White and male, positioning static ideas of whiteness and masculinity as normative. Interviews, including the use of mental maps, were conducted with 12 prima…
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective
Although previous research indicates a positive relationship between community belonging and well-being, little is known about how this relationship is experienced within diverse communities. In this study, interviews were conducted with 12 queer-mixed-identified individuals. Proposed is a conceptual framework for understanding how and why experiences of community belonging contribute to and detract from well-being. Specifically, the dimensions b…
We Are Powerful People: Health-Promoting Strengths of LGBTQ Communities of Color
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color experience intersecting systems of oppression that limit access to health care, safety, and other basic resources. Important research has documented these disparities, their antecedents, and consequences. However, little research has examined the strengths of multiply marginalized LGBTQ communities. Drawing from a health equity framework, this study is based on interviews…
(Un)doing Transmisogynist Stigma in Health Care Settings: Experiences of Ten Transgender Women of Color
Transgender women of color face numerous barriers to accessing quality health and human services due to intersecting systems of oppression. Using transmisogyny as a conceptual tool, the current study drew upon individual, in-depth interviews with ten transgender women of color living in New York City. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the experiences of participants in care settings and compare their experiences in …
What Are We Teaching in Diversity and Social Justice Courses? A Qualitative Content Analysis of MSW Syllabi
Diversity and social justice are central to social work and related curricular content is mandated by accreditation standards. However, research regarding diversity and social justice courses remains limited. This study aimed to better understand how these courses are conceptualized through a qualitative content analysis of course descriptions and objectives from 27 MSW course syllabi. Findings were organized into themes related to knowledge, ski…
Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge
Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that have defined both the potentialities and the limitations of community as a liberatory and/or liberated space. This article sheds light on how ambiguously identified, bodied, and placed people are affected by cultures and systems of oppression in ways that create unique tensions with community and generate knowledge …
A critical examination of key assumptions underlying diversity and social justice courses in social work
This article examines underlying assumptions of Master of Social Work diversity and social justice courses as sites that embody social work’s dual projects of social justice and professionalization. Through a latent content analysis of course syllabi from 27 US-based social work programs, three key assumptions emerged: (1) social workers are members of dominant social groups; (2) cultural competency and anti-oppression are compatible frameworks; …
Dual pandemics or a syndemic? Racism, Covid-19, and opportunities for antiracist social work
In this article, we critically engage the “dual pandemics” framing of this special issue. We first consider the key assumptions of this popular frame, specifically the conceptualization of racism as a pandemic, and examine limitations of medicalizing racism. We follow with an introduction of the term syndemic, coined by public health scholar Merrill Singer, and discuss how the language of syndemics might accurately characterize the synergism and …
That is when I changed and my whole life changed”: Turning points in health perceptions among LGBTQ adults of color
This study explored turning points in health perceptions among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults of color living in a major US city. Turning points in health perceptions were elicited from 38 participants through in-depth interviews and were examined using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Findings revealed three key themes: (a) diagnosis and disease; (b) death or illness of family and friends; and (c) changes in…
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado: Una intervención para inculcar la justicia social en el curriculum de los programas de bienestar social
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge
Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that have defined both the potentialities and the limitations of community as a liberatory and/or liberated space. This article sheds light on how ambiguously identified, bodied, and placed people are affected by cultures and systems of oppression in ways that create unique tensions with community and generate knowledge …
Teaching Note—Infusing Social Justice Into Doctoral Programs of Social Welfare: An Incremental Approach
This article describes an effort to further infuse social justice education into doctoral programs in social welfare. It articulates the rationale and tactical approaches for aligning mission statements with the operational realities of university contexts. Within 1 school of social work, doctoral students with diverse orientations to social justice came together to articulate a vision for social justice education that expanded the educational co…
Dangerous Waters and Brave Space: A Critical Feminist Inquiry of Campus LGBTQ Centers
Grounded in critical feminisms, this study examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) centers at public universities in the context of the regulating discourse of homonormative whiteness. Homonormative whiteness refers to dominant norms that constitute the queer body as White and male, positioning static ideas of whiteness and masculinity as normative. Interviews, including the use of mental maps, were conducted with 12 prima…
Transformando las rutinas organizacionales en los programas de doctorado: Una intervención para inculcar la justicia social en el curriculum de los programas de bienestar social
En este artículo se describe el esfuerzo para infundir un marco de justicia social en un programa doctoral de trabajo social dentro de una universidad prominente de investigación de los Estados Unidos. El proyecto de investigación “Justicia Social en la Educación Doctoral” (SJDE) identificó los Objetivos de Aprendizaje de la Justicia Social (SJLOs) en una serie de categorías de la investigación científica, como la enseñanza y el servicio. Los est…
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Belonging and Well-Being: Insights from a Queer-Mixed Perspective
Although previous research indicates a positive relationship between community belonging and well-being, little is known about how this relationship is experienced within diverse communities. In this study, interviews were conducted with 12 queer-mixed-identified individuals. Proposed is a conceptual framework for understanding how and why experiences of community belonging contribute to and detract from well-being. Specifically, the dimensions b…
What Are We Teaching in Diversity and Social Justice Courses? A Qualitative Content Analysis of MSW Syllabi
Diversity and social justice are central to social work and related curricular content is mandated by accreditation standards. However, research regarding diversity and social justice courses remains limited. This study aimed to better understand how these courses are conceptualized through a qualitative content analysis of course descriptions and objectives from 27 MSW course syllabi. Findings were organized into themes related to knowledge, ski…
With Equality and Opportunity for All? Emerging Scholars Define Social Justice for Social Work
Social justice is globally acknowledged as a guiding principle in social work professional doctrines. Yet, a lack of conceptual and practical clarity concerning the role of social justice in social work persists. In particular, little is known about how doctoral students conceptualise social justice for social work. The present study emerges from a national survey of Ph.D. students in social work in the USA asking: ‘What are some of the core comp…
Individual and systemic barriers to health care: Perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults
Access to effective services is imperative to address the many health and mental health disparities that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people face. This population, however, remains underserved and often ill-served in health care environments. Furthermore, interactions between system- and individual-level dimensions of access create barriers to service engagement. Within much of the extant literature surrounding health care barri…
Identity-conscious services for diverse patients: A descriptive analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-focused federally qualified community health centers
Significant health disparities affect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population. There has been growing attention to these disparities, with research focused on issues such as barriers to care, provider education, and disparate outcomes across the life course. However, there has been little research on the role of LGBT-focused health care settings. The objective of this study was to describe the patient populations and service…
A critical examination of key assumptions underlying diversity and social justice courses in social work
This article examines underlying assumptions of Master of Social Work diversity and social justice courses as sites that embody social work’s dual projects of social justice and professionalization. Through a latent content analysis of course syllabi from 27 US-based social work programs, three key assumptions emerged: (1) social workers are members of dominant social groups; (2) cultural competency and anti-oppression are compatible frameworks; …
(Un)doing Transmisogynist Stigma in Health Care Settings: Experiences of Ten Transgender Women of Color
Transgender women of color face numerous barriers to accessing quality health and human services due to intersecting systems of oppression. Using transmisogyny as a conceptual tool, the current study drew upon individual, in-depth interviews with ten transgender women of color living in New York City. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the experiences of participants in care settings and compare their experiences in …
That is when I changed and my whole life changed”: Turning points in health perceptions among LGBTQ adults of color
This study explored turning points in health perceptions among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults of color living in a major US city. Turning points in health perceptions were elicited from 38 participants through in-depth interviews and were examined using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Findings revealed three key themes: (a) diagnosis and disease; (b) death or illness of family and friends; and (c) changes in…
We Are Powerful People: Health-Promoting Strengths of LGBTQ Communities of Color
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color experience intersecting systems of oppression that limit access to health care, safety, and other basic resources. Important research has documented these disparities, their antecedents, and consequences. However, little research has examined the strengths of multiply marginalized LGBTQ communities. Drawing from a health equity framework, this study is based on interviews…
Pandemic and protest in 2020: Questions and considerations for social work research
The convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and social/political protest concerning structural anti-Black racism marks a moment for deep reflection and revision of many taken-for-granted assumptions about our research and academic lives as social work scholars. In this reflexive essay we, as two non-Black qualitative social work scholars, explore some of the questions and considerations for social work research that have surfaced since the emergence…
Intersectional Social Work Practice: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Peer-Reviewed Recommendations
In the past decade, the use of intersectionality in social work scholarship has grown tremendously. Various applications of intersectionality theorizing have led to new approaches in social work research and, ultimately, have informed implications for practice. In this study, we used critical interpretive synthesis to explore how social work scholars articulate practice implications of an intersectional framework. Seventeen peer-reviewed journal …
“Render a service worthy of me”: A qualitative study of factors influencing access to LGBTQ-specific health services
For a half-century, LGBTQ-specific health services have sought to address the unmet health care needs of LGBTQ people in the U.S. However, there is a dearth of research examining factors that influence LGBTQ care-seekers’ reasons for choosing LGBTQ-specific services and their experiences accessing care. This interview-based study explored factors that facilitate and inhibit access to LGBTQ-specific health services among a sample of 40 LGBTQ adult…
Operationalizing Intersectionality in Social Work Research: Approaches and Limitations
Despite intersectionality’s relevance to social work, scholars have raised concerns that its misguided applications place it “in danger of being co-opted, depoliticized, and diluted.” This scoping review examined the use of intersectionality in empirical social work research, specific to the extent, contexts, and degree of responsibility with which it has been applied. Using the search term convention [“social work” OR “social services”] AND [“in…
Dual pandemics or a syndemic? Racism, Covid-19, and opportunities for antiracist social work
In this article, we critically engage the “dual pandemics” framing of this special issue. We first consider the key assumptions of this popular frame, specifically the conceptualization of racism as a pandemic, and examine limitations of medicalizing racism. We follow with an introduction of the term syndemic, coined by public health scholar Merrill Singer, and discuss how the language of syndemics might accurately characterize the synergism and …
Nonclinical best practices for creating LGBTQ-inclusive care environments: A scoping review of gray literature
Guidelines for LGBTQ-inclusive care have been developed by a number of expert organizations to mitigate significant barriers to accessing quality physical and mental health care. This scoping review synthesized nonclinical best practices for creating LGBTQ-affirming care environments as described in 12 publicly available resources. Results were organized into seven domains: (1) interpersonal quality; (2) visual cues in the physical environment; (…
Exploring the intersections of LGBTQ experience and social work education: A scoping review
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues, experiences, and theorizing have had limited representation within social work education. In recent years there has been an increase in the scholarly discourse regarding queer and trans issues and social work education, but little is known about the landscape of this body of published work. In this scoping review, we explored peer-reviewed literature regarding the intersections of soc…
Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults
Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender expansive, and queer (LGBTQ) health is dominated by disparities in disease, access, and risk behaviors. Such research is critical for examining the myriad factors that limit the lives of gender and sexual minorities. Few studies, however, have explored LGBTQ people's concepts of health. People's accounts of health are important, as they reveal insights into a person's relationship to the soci…
Social workers’ support of the status quo: Results from a national survey
Social work has an intimate and complex relationship with the systems that shape the social, political, economic, and environmental fabric of the United States. System justification theory helps explain why people are motivated to accept the status quo of systems and unequal social arrangements. This study examined the system-justifying beliefs of a national sample ( N = 516) of master’s-level social workers to better understand how beliefs about…
Social Work Literature and Gendered Racism: A Scoping Review
A formal evaluation of social work literature on the topic of gendered racism has yet to be undertaken. Accordingly, authors present a scoping review of peer-reviewed social work literature on gendered racism. Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework, databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles including the term “gendered raci*” and published by social work scholars or journals since 1991. In the sample of 33 artic…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (13 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (13 works) · Social Work (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)