Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that posits multiple social categories (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status) intersect at the micro level of individual experience to reflect interlocking systems privilege and oppression macro, social-structural racism, sexism, heterosexism). Public health's commitment justice makes it natural fit with intersectionality's focus on historically oppressed populations. Yet despite plethora research focused these...

SUMMARY This qualitative study explored the experiences of multiple minority stress and resilience among interviewees at a retreat for Black lesbians. Participants were predominantly middle-class, highly educated sample women (N= 19) between ages 26 68. The multicultural model (Slavin, Rainer, McCreary, & Gowda, 1991) transactional (Kumpfer, 1999) theoretical frameworks study. Most participants discussed racism as mundane significant stressor, contextualized their sexism heterosexism through...

Intersectionality scholars typically use the term flattening to describe how intersectionality as it becomes mainstream is being depoliticized and stripped of its attention power, social justice, praxis 5,6 Consider, for example, NAS (formerly Institute Medicine), one first national research organizations embrace a crosscutting perspective lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) health in 2011 7 The report's glossary defined theory used analyze cultural categories intertwine7(p318)...

This qualitative study explored the association between African American women's interpersonal relationship and sexual scripts condom use with primary partners. Participants were 14 lower to middle-income women ages of 22 39 involved in emotionally sexually intimate heterosexual relationships. Relationship types included those that were: stable, committed; casual, primarily sexual; unstable, imbalanced and/or conflict-ridden. Respondents completed a semi-structured interview questionnaire...

Research documents the link between traditional ideologies of masculinity and sexual risk among multi-ethnic male adolescents White college students, but similar research with Black heterosexual men is scarce. This exploratory study addressed this gap through six focus groups 41 Black, low- to middle-income aged 19 51 years in Philadelphia, PA. Analyses highlighted two explicit masculinity: that should have sex multiple women, often concurrently, not be gay or bisexual. also identified...

This interview study, the initial qualitative phase of a larger mixed methods HIV prevention study focused on Black heterosexual men, used intersectionality as theoretical framework to explore: (1) How sample men describe and experience multiple intersections race, gender, SES; (2) these descriptions reflected interlocking systems social inequality for at social-structural level. Participants were 30 predominantly low-income self-identified between ages 18 44. Analyses highlighted four...

Qualitative methods are not intrinsically progressive. Methods simply tools to conduct research. Epistemology, the justification of knowledge, shapes methodology and methods, thus is a vital starting point for critical health equity research stance, regardless whether qualitative, quantitative, or mixed. In line with this premise, I address four themes in commentary. First, criticize ubiquitous uncritical use term disparities U.S. public health. Next, advocate increased qualitative...

Objectives. To examine negative police encounters and avoidance as mediators of incarceration history depressive symptoms among US Black men to assess the role unemployment a moderator these associations. Methods. Data were derived from quantitative phase Menhood, 2015–2016 study based in Washington, DC. Participants 891 men, 18 44 years age, who completed computer surveys. We used moderated mediation test study’s conceptual model. Results. The results showed significant indirect effects on...

Audre Lorde's provocative admonishment, "The master's tools will never dismantle the house," is a fitting caution for Black and other scholars of color who seek to use traditional social behavioral sciences research as tool achieve justice health equity in communities. Invoking Lorde, I "master's tools" metaphor conventional theoretical methodological approaches "dismantle house" intersectional structures systems oppression that created sustain inequity U.S. Using blend personal narrative...

The field of mixed methods research abounds with opportunities for creative development in terms methodological advances and potential to contribute important complex societal problems. Inspired by issues that arose the Mixed Methods International Research Association task force report on future methods, this article contemplates its implications challenges community advancement philosophy methodology, innovative designs, technological advancements big data, preparation researchers,...

Black heterosexual men (BHM) are seldom mentioned in HIV prevention research, policy, and interventions, despite evidence that contact is becoming the leading exposure category for BHM. The disparate effect of HIV/AIDS on BHM; debunked "down low" myth; contexts BHM's lives terms disproportionate poverty, unemployment, incarceration; a growing empirical base linking these factors to increased risk, underscore need prioritize risk initiatives We highlighted structural BHM, four community-based...

This study examined associations between structural racism, anti-LGBTQ policies, and suicide risk among young sexual minority men (SMM). Participants were a 2017-2018 Internet-based U.S. national sample of 497 Black 1536 White SMM (ages 16-25). Structural equation modeling tested from indicators their interaction to factors. For participants, racism policies significantly positively associated with depressive symptoms, heavy drinking, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness,...