Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper explores how intersecting forms of marginalization shape health information access for diverse LGBTQIA+ populations, focusing on sapphic individuals across generations and LGBTQIA+ people of color. Guided by Collins’ matrix of domination, we identify structural, disciplinary, cultural, and interpersonal barriers to health information across multiple identities produced by interlocking power systems of race, gender, sexuality, age, and citizenship. Based on these findings, we provide suggestions for how the LIS curriculum can incorporate intersectionality theory into training future information professionals to work with equity-deserving populations within health contexts.
Authors: Yi Wan, Vanessa Kitzie
Institution: University of South Carolina
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414790204