From LiLLes to lilies
An autoethnography of coming out and coming in to a later in life queer eco-spiritual identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15434291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurie DeJong Zuverink (0000-0002-1188-3094, University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 120-137 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1542-6432 • E-ISSN: 1542-6440 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15426432.2024.2369672 |
| OpenAlex | W4399940763 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Most of my life I both pressed against social constructions of gender and sexuality and tried to fit within those same social constructions. After being married for twenty-six years as a cis-gender woman in a heterosexual relationship, raising three children, and serving as a pastor and faith-based nonprofit director in a conservative religious tradition and community, I leaned into and authentically claimed my sexual identity as a queer lesbian womxn. When I decided to pursue a PhD and research the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and religion, I discovered a large community of later in life lesbian womxn with stories like mine where I could belong. My spiritual journey into an authentic gender and sexual identity has also been a journey into belonging with the more than human world. Using a framework of queer ecofeminism and the method of critical autoethnography to engage my coming out later in life narrative offers the opportunity to explore how individual intersectional experiences of gender and sexuality can inform and impact collective social justice and environmental justice efforts in the work to dismantle oppressive binary systems
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Coming out · Identity (music · Psychoanalysis · Queer · SCOOP · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
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Handbook of Autoethnography
Undoing Gender
Minimizing Bias and Maximizing the Potential Strengths of Autoethnography as a Narrative Research
The impact of climate change and natural disasters on vulnerable populations
Lesbian processing at the end of the world
Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism
Environmental Social Work
Changing values and valuing change
The Experience of LGBTQ+ Identity as Spiritual Identity
Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |