“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” —Nathaniel Branden, American Psychologist
Thank you, readers, for joining us on our month-long LGBT blog take-over. Together we turned a critical eye on the human rights and rhetoric surrounding the LGBT community. Expanding past the common belief that equality is purely a social issue, our guest editors and articles showed relevance in business, education, psychology, bioethics and more. To facilitate the continuation of our thoughts and communal work, we’re setting free more scholarly articles and book chapters focused on awareness as a crucial engine in social change. Take a look at our page to see the latest in research across the social sciences and humanities in awareness.
The engine for social change is a moving target; one that if we’re not reading and engaging with, it can stall out. LGBT Pride Month garnered significant momentum in 2015 and we encourage you to share this page, the blog, your comments, and this content with peers. Keep talking, thinking, and demanding human rights and advocacy because if we learned anything from this month, it’s that LGBT rights affect all of us.
Highlights:
From our top-read blog post, Queering Philosophy—How can queer theory inform and transform the practice of Philosophy?
“The goal then has to be not to establish queer theory as a recognized subfield in philosophy, but to elaborate how the questions and methods of queer thought can more generally inform and transform the practice of philosophy and its standards for knowledge production.” —Annika Thiem, Hypatia
Business and LGBTQ, LGBTs in the Workplace
“The purpose of this special issue is to take LGBT scholarship to the next stage by gathering new knowledge and extending theory on LGBT individuals in the workplace.” —Canadian Journal of Administrative Science
The Coming Out Story—YouTube Beauty Guru, Ingrid Nilsen, Comes Out in Emotional Video
“Ingrid’s story is unique in that it had by 900,000 hits in eight hours.” —Kathryn Coble
The Philosopher's Eye 