Identifications in flux
Sexual-minority women’s healthcare encounters viewed through the lens of identitarian articulations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Rizor (0009-0007-0522-626X, Thomas Jefferson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2025.2588786 |
| PMID | 41273241 |
| OpenAlex | W4416538236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
In the USA, sexual-minority women experience disparities in healthcare access, quality, and outcomes, shaped by entanglements of gender/sex, sexuality, and institutional norms. While intersectionality has been central to understanding these structural inequities, it does not always account for the shifting, situational nature of how identifications develop in specific encounters. Drawing on identitarian articulations theory, this study explores how sexual-minority women's identifications are differentially activated across healthcare settings. Based on in-depth interviews with fifteen US-based sexual-minority women aged 31 to 73 years, the analysis reveals how identifications materialise through intra-actions with human and non-human elements, including provider attitudes, spatial arrangements, medical protocols, and affective atmospheres. Findings highlight five analytic advantages of this approach: capturing the contingency of identifications, recognising non-human elements, accounting for differential articulation, emphasising affective dimensions, and expanding intervention possibilities. This perspective moves beyond static identity frameworks and individual-level solutions, offering a flexible, relational model for understanding and transforming healthcare practices and environments
Contingency · Health care · Healthcare system · Identity (music · Intersectionality · Intervention (counseling · Perspective (graphical · Situational ethics · Cultural Competency in Health Care · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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Volatile Bodies
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Ethnicity without Groups
Assemblages and Identitarian Articulations
Terrorist Assemblages
Health and healthcare disparities among U.S. women and men at the intersection of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity
Sexual orientation identity disparities in health behaviors, outcomes, and services use among men and women in the United States
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research
The Relationship Between Discrimination and Substance Use Disorders Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in the United States
Achieving Health Equity
Doing new materialist data analysis
Assemblages of Health
Naturalistic inquiry
Towards an affective understanding of processes of racialization
The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Double Jeopardy
The Sexuality-Assemblage
The Space Between
Now I see it, now I don't
Qualitative Quality
Strategies for Managing Heterosexism Used among African American Gay and Bisexual Men
Beyond 'identity
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