scholarly journals Queer Studies II: Some Refelctions on the Study of Sexual Orientation Bias in the Legal Profession

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Rubenstein
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Orientation Bias

Coming Out in Class: Disclosure of Sexual Orientation and Teaching Evaluations

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky J. Liddle
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Teaching Evaluations ◽  
Disclosure Of Sexual Orientation ◽  
Orientation Bias

A lesbian assistant professor of counseling psychology disclosed her sexual orientation during lectures to 2 sections of an undergraduate course and did not disclose in 2 comparable sections of the same course. Group differences in means and variances of teaching evaluations were examined for possible student bias. No evidence of sexual orientation bias was found.

The Hospitable Aesthetics of Alison Bechdel

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Vanessa Lauber
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Formal Innovation ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
Insight Into

The birth of queer studies as an academic discipline is defined by its break from LGBT politics, with the goals of marriage and military service pitted against radical queer liberation. In broad strokes, LGBT studies produces sexual orientation as a category, while queer studies seeks to upend categorical thought. Alison Bechdel’s unique insight into that tension arises from her complex and nuanced attempts to represent marginalized identities in a form that has been itself marginalized. Her politics of the outsider cannot be cast off in a dismissive reading of her popularity in the cultural imagination, nor hewn from the longer history of her formal innovation. Taken as a whole, the paradoxical and yet co-constitutive relationship between the queerness of her forms and the mainstream popularity of her texts performs a sort of queer world-building. To the extent that her work cultivates empathy or community, it does so not only, perhaps, in the service of identity-based movements or bald market capitalism, but also by modeling a more radical, relational aesthetic that illuminates the ongoing power of queer critique.

Erasing Workers’ Identities: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise’s National Study of the Legal Profession

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Ryan H. Nelson ◽  
Michael Ashley Stein
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
National Study ◽  
Workplace Diversity ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
Lgbtq Rights ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

“Bring your whole self to work” remains a common mantra of supporters of workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”).1 For example, disability rights advocates have long contended that hiding or downplaying one’s disability from one’s colleagues at work “create[s] an invisible layer of additional work for the individual” in being accepted at the job and negatively affects productivity.2 LGBTQ+ rights advocates have raised similar points, noting that hiding or downplaying one’s sexual orientation or gender identity from one’s colleagues hinders internal advancement of LGBTQ+ workers.3 As recently as 2019, however, a Deloitte study found that sixty-one percent of workers hid or downplayed one or more of their identities from their colleagues at work.4

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