Jama Shelton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 149790 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jama Shelton |
| PRENOMES | Jama |
| SOBRENOME | Shelton |
| ASSINATURA | SHELTON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hunter College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5990-5072 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
If not now, then when? Social work educators, cis-supremacist legislation, and the question of professional obligation
The US is experiencing a wave of legislation seeking to limit the rights and autonomy of transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people across multiple domains, even attempting to cease the legal recognition of TNB people altogether. Social work is committed to social justice. However, the profession has been largely silent in the face of these legislative attacks. This article utilizes an anonymous survey to examine social work educators’ understanding …
A Qualitative Exploration of Sexual Agency in LGBTQ+ Young Adults Who are Experiencing Homelessness
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) young adults (YA) experiencing homelessness are at disproportionate risk of negative sexual health outcomes. Understanding sexual agency and risk-taking behavior of LGBTQ+ YA experiencing homelessness is critical to designing interventions that promote sexual agency and prevent HIV/STIs, sexual violence victimization, and unwanted pregnancies. To explore sexual agency among this population, …
Information and communication technologies use among youth experiencing homelessness
Given reported high rates of transience and service disengagement among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH), new forms of information and communication technologies (ICT) may represent a novel avenue for intervention. Although studies suggest that ICT use is surprisingly high among YEH, less is known about the factors associated with ICT use and the association between ICT use and online health information seeking behavior (OHISB) among YEH. Us…
Researching LGBTQ+ homelessness and building social justice in the UK & the US
LGBTQ+ homelessness research is an emerging area growing in importance in the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. Research to date indicates that methodology and participant recruitment are particularly challenging for this group. Sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as homelessness and poverty are taboo topics that are often stigmatized. Homelessness for LGBTQ+ people is therefore under-reported both by third sector organizations and gover…
Understanding Survival Sex Engagement Among Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
“Death threats and despair”
Gender-Affirming Care Providers (GACPs) for children and adolescents function within an intricate socio-political landscape that necessitates navigating legislative restrictions, institutional betrayals, and overarching societal prejudices. This manuscript presents a conceptual model that captures the multifaceted factors inducing moral distress among these professionals, including social workers, counselors, nurses, and physicians. Employing a s…
Understanding Young People’s Navigation of Housing Barriers Through a White Supremacy Lens
A Descriptive Account of the Practicum Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Social Work Students
Current anti-transgender legislative activity necessitates social workers take action in solidarity with transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals and communities. Pervasive discrimination and marginalization of TNB people across multiple public domains, including education, is irrefutable (James et al, 2016). Social work education is no exception. Not only is there a documented lack of affirming educational and practicum opportunities for TNB …
Self-Identification of Mental Health Problems Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
“It kinda breaks my heart”
The association between place stayed and self-identification as homeless among unstably housed young adults in seven U.S. cities
Limited research has explored whether young adults that experience homelessness and housing instability (YAEH) self-identify as homeless. This study uses the Homeless Youth Risk and Resilience Survey (HYRRS) dataset, a seven-city sample of 1426 YAEH, to examine the relationship between the type of place a young adult stayed the night before their interview and whether they self-identified as homeless. While all participants were classified as hom…
Exploring the Relationship Between Public Assistance Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
I just want to move forward”
Experiences of discrimination among young adults experiencing homelessness
1,055) reported experiencing at least one of the five forms of everyday discrimination experiences at least a few times a year, with the most common reason attributed to their housing situation (46%). Sexual orientation, juvenile justice involvement, and having been homeless for 2 years or more were associated with increased odds of experiencing discrimination. Discrimination was a strong predictor of psychological distress but was significant on…
Digital technologies and the violent surveillance of nonbinary gender
The enforcement of the gender binary is a root cause of gender-based violence (GBV) for trans people. Disrupting GBV requires that we ensure that ‘gender’ is not presumed synonymous with White cisgender womanhood. Transfeminists suggest that attaining gender equity requires confronting all forms of oppression that police people and their bodies, including White supremacy, colonialism and capitalism (Silva and Ornat, 2016; Simpkins, 2016). Part of…
The intersection of housing and mental well-being
We examine the challenges formerly homeless young adults (FHYAs) face after they transition out of homelessness. Considering the adversities FHYAs face, it is unclear how transitioning to stable housing may affect their mental well-being or what types of stressors they may experience once housed. This study investigates the social environment young adults encounter in their transition to stable housing and examines trauma and social coping predic…
Trans Adults Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting marginalized communities, such as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled individuals, and transgender/nonbinary (i.e., trans) individuals. As trans individuals may be multiply marginalized, it is necessary to examine within group differences among trans individuals of different genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, and abilities. This study examines the following re…
Organizing in the digital age
The articles in this special issue illustrate how digital technologies, including social media, have impacted the ways individuals, groups, and communities come together to advocate and effect soci
Binary Thinking and the Limiting of Human Potential
Our society compresses a multitude of human identities into arbitrary categories, many of which are constructed as binaries. Binary constructs offer two mutually exclusive, possible ways of being. Perhaps the most prevalent in US society is the gender binary – the pervasive idea that there are two, rigidly boundaried gender categories, each with an accompanying set of expectations. Binary gender classifications are a foundational element of US so…
Educational attainment among young adults experiencing homelessness in seven cities across the United States
System involvement among young adults experiencing homelessness
Mainstreaming Dissidence
To genuinely embody its commitment to anti-oppression, social work must call on a critical gender framework in its response to the Grand Challenges for Social Work. Such an approach demands that social workers move beyond reactivity to thoroughly interrogate the binary gender system upholding the gendered injustices this special issue calls us to confront. This includes a consideration of the ways a binary gender system is ideologically linked to…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 4
Beyond the Cultural Competence Paradigm and contradictory tensions stemming from the multiple identities that constitute each person and community.It also demonstrated the ways in which structural conditions such as chronic poverty, language barriers, and vulnerability to immigration control are tied to gender, race, and class, categories that would later expand across other identities as the concept of intersectionality rapidly diffused across m…
The Trans Person is not the Problem
Social work students must be equipped to confront injustice and oppression. Effectively challenging oppression necessitates attention to the ideological origins and subsequent systematic marginalization of oppressed populations. This article critically examines social work education as it relates to trans people and communities. We propose two interconnected pedagogical shifts for consideration: moving from the social work classroom as “safe spac…
Queering the Social Work Classroom
The inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perspectives and experiences in the social work classroom is necessary to adequately include LGBTQ students and prepare graduates to practice effectively. Drawing from queer theory as a theoretical framework and the authors’ experiences in practice and teaching/learning spaces with LGBTQ youth, this article offers practical strategies for creating classrooms inclusive of LGBT…
Reframing risk for transgender and gender-expansive young people experiencing homelessness
This article expands conceptualizations of homelessness among transgender and gender-expansive young people beyond those associated solely with risk and victimization. Participants were 27 New York City–based transgender and gender-expansive young people (between the ages of 18 and 25) with histories of homelessness. This exploratory inquiry utilized semi-structured interviews lasting approximately 60 minutes. Participants shared another side of …
Transgender youth homelessness
I'm more driven now
Background : Little is known about the resilience strategies of transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults (YYA) experiencing homelessness. In addition to difficulties accessing trans-affirming supports and services, transgender and gender expansive YYA must contend with structural constraints and oppressive messages about who they are and who they can become. Despite these challenges, transgender and gender expansive YYA experiencin…
System involvement among young adults experiencing homelessness
The Trans Person is not the Problem
Social work students must be equipped to confront injustice and oppression. Effectively challenging oppression necessitates attention to the ideological origins and subsequent systematic marginalization of oppressed populations. This article critically examines social work education as it relates to trans people and communities. We propose two interconnected pedagogical shifts for consideration: moving from the social work classroom as “safe spac…
I just want to move forward”
Mainstreaming Dissidence
To genuinely embody its commitment to anti-oppression, social work must call on a critical gender framework in its response to the Grand Challenges for Social Work. Such an approach demands that social workers move beyond reactivity to thoroughly interrogate the binary gender system upholding the gendered injustices this special issue calls us to confront. This includes a consideration of the ways a binary gender system is ideologically linked to…
Understanding Survival Sex Engagement Among Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Organizing in the digital age
The articles in this special issue illustrate how digital technologies, including social media, have impacted the ways individuals, groups, and communities come together to advocate and effect soci
Researching LGBTQ+ homelessness and building social justice in the UK & the US
LGBTQ+ homelessness research is an emerging area growing in importance in the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. Research to date indicates that methodology and participant recruitment are particularly challenging for this group. Sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as homelessness and poverty are taboo topics that are often stigmatized. Homelessness for LGBTQ+ people is therefore under-reported both by third sector organizations and gover…
Self-Identification of Mental Health Problems Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Binary Thinking and the Limiting of Human Potential
Our society compresses a multitude of human identities into arbitrary categories, many of which are constructed as binaries. Binary constructs offer two mutually exclusive, possible ways of being. Perhaps the most prevalent in US society is the gender binary – the pervasive idea that there are two, rigidly boundaried gender categories, each with an accompanying set of expectations. Binary gender classifications are a foundational element of US so…
Educational attainment among young adults experiencing homelessness in seven cities across the United States
Queering the Social Work Classroom
The inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perspectives and experiences in the social work classroom is necessary to adequately include LGBTQ students and prepare graduates to practice effectively. Drawing from queer theory as a theoretical framework and the authors’ experiences in practice and teaching/learning spaces with LGBTQ youth, this article offers practical strategies for creating classrooms inclusive of LGBT…
LGBT Youth Homelessness
Providing to One's Own Community
This article presents some of the challenges inherent in providing services as social-service practitioners to a marginalized, gender-nonconforming community with which the practitioners personally identify. The authors ponder questions related to self-disclosure, boundaries, and personal responsibility
Transgender youth homelessness
Reframing risk for transgender and gender-expansive young people experiencing homelessness
This article expands conceptualizations of homelessness among transgender and gender-expansive young people beyond those associated solely with risk and victimization. Participants were 27 New York City–based transgender and gender-expansive young people (between the ages of 18 and 25) with histories of homelessness. This exploratory inquiry utilized semi-structured interviews lasting approximately 60 minutes. Participants shared another side of …
I'm more driven now
Background : Little is known about the resilience strategies of transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults (YYA) experiencing homelessness. In addition to difficulties accessing trans-affirming supports and services, transgender and gender expansive YYA must contend with structural constraints and oppressive messages about who they are and who they can become. Despite these challenges, transgender and gender expansive YYA experiencin…
Queering the Social Work Classroom
The inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perspectives and experiences in the social work classroom is necessary to adequately include LGBTQ students and prepare graduates to practice effectively. Drawing from queer theory as a theoretical framework and the authors’ experiences in practice and teaching/learning spaces with LGBTQ youth, this article offers practical strategies for creating classrooms inclusive of LGBT…
LGBT Youth Homelessness
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 4
Beyond the Cultural Competence Paradigm and contradictory tensions stemming from the multiple identities that constitute each person and community.It also demonstrated the ways in which structural conditions such as chronic poverty, language barriers, and vulnerability to immigration control are tied to gender, race, and class, categories that would later expand across other identities as the concept of intersectionality rapidly diffused across m…
The Trans Person is not the Problem
Social work students must be equipped to confront injustice and oppression. Effectively challenging oppression necessitates attention to the ideological origins and subsequent systematic marginalization of oppressed populations. This article critically examines social work education as it relates to trans people and communities. We propose two interconnected pedagogical shifts for consideration: moving from the social work classroom as “safe spac…
Educational attainment among young adults experiencing homelessness in seven cities across the United States
System involvement among young adults experiencing homelessness
Mainstreaming Dissidence
To genuinely embody its commitment to anti-oppression, social work must call on a critical gender framework in its response to the Grand Challenges for Social Work. Such an approach demands that social workers move beyond reactivity to thoroughly interrogate the binary gender system upholding the gendered injustices this special issue calls us to confront. This includes a consideration of the ways a binary gender system is ideologically linked to…
Digital technologies and the violent surveillance of nonbinary gender
The enforcement of the gender binary is a root cause of gender-based violence (GBV) for trans people. Disrupting GBV requires that we ensure that ‘gender’ is not presumed synonymous with White cisgender womanhood. Transfeminists suggest that attaining gender equity requires confronting all forms of oppression that police people and their bodies, including White supremacy, colonialism and capitalism (Silva and Ornat, 2016; Simpkins, 2016). Part of…
The intersection of housing and mental well-being
We examine the challenges formerly homeless young adults (FHYAs) face after they transition out of homelessness. Considering the adversities FHYAs face, it is unclear how transitioning to stable housing may affect their mental well-being or what types of stressors they may experience once housed. This study investigates the social environment young adults encounter in their transition to stable housing and examines trauma and social coping predic…
Trans Adults Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting marginalized communities, such as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled individuals, and transgender/nonbinary (i.e., trans) individuals. As trans individuals may be multiply marginalized, it is necessary to examine within group differences among trans individuals of different genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, and abilities. This study examines the following re…
Organizing in the digital age
The articles in this special issue illustrate how digital technologies, including social media, have impacted the ways individuals, groups, and communities come together to advocate and effect soci
Binary Thinking and the Limiting of Human Potential
Our society compresses a multitude of human identities into arbitrary categories, many of which are constructed as binaries. Binary constructs offer two mutually exclusive, possible ways of being. Perhaps the most prevalent in US society is the gender binary – the pervasive idea that there are two, rigidly boundaried gender categories, each with an accompanying set of expectations. Binary gender classifications are a foundational element of US so…
“It kinda breaks my heart”
The association between place stayed and self-identification as homeless among unstably housed young adults in seven U.S. cities
Limited research has explored whether young adults that experience homelessness and housing instability (YAEH) self-identify as homeless. This study uses the Homeless Youth Risk and Resilience Survey (HYRRS) dataset, a seven-city sample of 1426 YAEH, to examine the relationship between the type of place a young adult stayed the night before their interview and whether they self-identified as homeless. While all participants were classified as hom…
Exploring the Relationship Between Public Assistance Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
I just want to move forward”
Experiences of discrimination among young adults experiencing homelessness
1,055) reported experiencing at least one of the five forms of everyday discrimination experiences at least a few times a year, with the most common reason attributed to their housing situation (46%). Sexual orientation, juvenile justice involvement, and having been homeless for 2 years or more were associated with increased odds of experiencing discrimination. Discrimination was a strong predictor of psychological distress but was significant on…
Understanding Young People’s Navigation of Housing Barriers Through a White Supremacy Lens
A Descriptive Account of the Practicum Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Social Work Students
Current anti-transgender legislative activity necessitates social workers take action in solidarity with transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals and communities. Pervasive discrimination and marginalization of TNB people across multiple public domains, including education, is irrefutable (James et al, 2016). Social work education is no exception. Not only is there a documented lack of affirming educational and practicum opportunities for TNB …
Self-Identification of Mental Health Problems Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness
“Death threats and despair”
Gender-Affirming Care Providers (GACPs) for children and adolescents function within an intricate socio-political landscape that necessitates navigating legislative restrictions, institutional betrayals, and overarching societal prejudices. This manuscript presents a conceptual model that captures the multifaceted factors inducing moral distress among these professionals, including social workers, counselors, nurses, and physicians. Employing a s…
Psychology (23 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (20 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Psychiatry (9 obras)