Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 021: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Diverse Families at the Margins/LGBTQ+/Parents and Children with Disabilities
Room: Chicago Room

Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Tia M. Dickerson, Columbia University

Description: 

Papers in this session will focus on the topic of diverse families at the margins.

Papers:

“Navigating Dual Cultures and Well-being: Parental Support among Asylum Seeker and Refugee Families in Hong Kong,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

“Of Men, Metas, and Masculinity: Polyamory as a Site of Resistance,” Natalie Dickson, The University of Oklahoma

“Reworking Identity, Reworking Heteronormativity: The Case of Tongqi in China,” Tori Shucheng Yang, University of British Columbia, Hui Xie, University of Wisconsin and Changhui Song, Henan Normal University

“There in My Time of Need: Identity Support and Queer Fictive Kinship,” Maximillian Calleo, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“What’s Behind the ‘Oxford Study’? Relationship-based Stigma and the Symbolic Significance of East Asian Woman/White Man Unions,” Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania, Winner of the Gender Division’s Student Paper Competition

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