Belonging for Women, LGBTQ+ and Black and Ethnically Minoritised People With Learning Disabilities
Findings From a Qualitative, Co‐Produced Study in England
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Belonging is a key aspect of human experience. This qualitative study examined where diverse people with learning disabilities feel belonging, what shapes belonging and how it affects their health. Focus groups were held with people with learning disabilities across England who identified as women, LGBTQ+, and from Black and ethnically minoritised backgrounds. Twelve participants also took part in an additional data collection activity: a go‐along interview, ethnographic observation and/or photovoice. Our findings demonstrate shared themes and intersectional differences in participants' experiences of belonging. We emphasise belonging as embodied and as felt in diverse places and across time. It is also relational, open‐ended and facilitated by several actors and factors, which reflect the multiple social identities of participants. Experiences of nonbelonging are grounded in ableism, which, in turn, is compounded by and cannot be separated from racism, sexism and homo‐, bi‐ and transphobia. Through empirical examples, we highlight the relationship between belonging and health as bi‐directional and mutually reinforcing. To belong, people need to feel themselves authentically and valued in their complexity and uniqueness.
Ableism · co-production · Embodiment · go-along interviews · Intersectionality · Learning disabilities · Photovoice · Racism · sense of belonging · Sexism · Transphobia · women with learning disabilities · Disability Rights and Representation · Down syndrome and intellectual disability research · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
What is inclusive research?
Qualitative Data Analysis
The Social Cure
Marginalization
Sense of neighborhood belonging and health
Care, comfort, and capacity
Shifting the discourse on disability
Embodied Research Methods
The politics of belonging intersectional contestations
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
Relationship between sense of community belonging and self-rated health across life stages
Sense of Belonging, Meaningful Daily Life Participation, and Well-Being
The multiplicity of belonging
Understanding marginalization as a social determinant of health
Expanding Possibilities for Inclusive Research
Voiceless subjects? Research ethics and persons with profound intellectual disabilities
The politics of intersectional (un)belonging
Belonging and the politics of belonging
More-than-human, emergent belongings
Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health
Participatory data analysis
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