YPSILANTI — The Eastern Michigan University Equality Knowledge Project, a program of the Equality Research Center, is to host its final presentation of the 2015-2016 scholastic year April 14, discussing the current status on how LGBT homeless youth are surviving in the south.
Throughout the last eight months, six Ph.D. candidates across the country have presented their findings on LGBT studies and research. These studies have included topics ranging from the health related consequences of intimate partner violence within the LGBT community to disgust and the dynamics of LGBT politics.
In the final presentation of the year, Brandon Andrew Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department of University of Texas-Austin, will explore the meanings, motivations and consequences that LGBT homeless youth ascribe to their actions and situations through his ethnographic fieldwork and interviews of homeless youth in an Austin and San Antonio youth drop-in center.
By situating LGBTQ homeless youths' voices and lived experiences at the forefront of this project, he uncovers how norms around heterosexuality and gender conformity affect the youths' pathways into and experiences of homelessness. Robinson's exploration will reveal the inner-workings of gender, sexuality, homophobia and transphobia within the changing climate for LGBT civil rights.
Robinson's research interests include sexuality and LGBT studies, race, gender, HIV/AIDS, homelessness and cyberspace. He has been published in the journal of Sexuality Research anad Social Policy, Deviant Behavior, Social Theory and Health and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity journal, among others.
Robinson will present his dissertation "OUTcasts: LGBTQ Homeless Youth Surviving in the South" at 5:30 p.m. in room 320 of the Eastern Michigan University Student Center, located at 900 Oakwood St. in Ypsilanti. The event is free and open to the public. To learn more about the speaker, visit his website at http://brandonandrewrobinson.com/.
EMU Equality Research Center Presentation on LGBT Homeless Youth in the South
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