Heterosexism

Heterosexism makes assumptions of the social norm; it is an internal way of keeping status quo. Having society be under the impression that there is only one way to explore sexuality creates an unsafe averment for those individuals who do explore beyond this…

include in woman- identified experience. Lesbianism and feminism originated from the same soil as a protest against patriarchal oppression. Lesbianism is concerned with the issue of personal identity. It addresses issues related to both sexism and heterosexism. They are marginalized by heterosexual feminist. There are two major thinking within lesbian theory itself. The first one is lesbian feminism originated from within feminism. Lesbian studies emerged in the 1980s as a kind of annex of…

Brotman et al. (2003) argue that current and historical homophobia, paired with invisibility of lesbian and gay seniors impacts their ability and willingness to access mainstream health care and social services. This integrates into my analysis a discussion of issues that lesbian and gay elders face within the current healthcare system (Brennan-Ing, 2014, p. 45; Fabbre, 2017, p.73; Gabrielson, 2011, p. 330). This article demonstrates the effect historical homophobia has on lesbian and gay…

The “Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education (HOPE) for Alzheimer’s Act” Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degeneration of cognitive function that affects an individual’s ability to recall, process information, and eventual disorientation, confusion, and behavior changes. It is a insidious disease because it starts slowly and depending on the type of Alzheimer’s can vary in it transitions through it stages. It the worst cases as the disease progresses, the individual loses the ability…

In the discourse of post colonialism, the centre and the margin maintains a dichotomous relation and India’s Northeast offers a potential space for narrativizing internal colonization and dispossession from a gendered praxis. My paper seeks to address these issues as touched upon in her novel The Collector’s Wife by well known Assamese writer and columnist Mitra Phukan, by making a symptomatic reading of the text through a postcolonial feminist lens. The gendered realities existing amidst…

Running head: FAMILY ASSESSMENT Family Assessment – Applying the Calgary Family Assessment Model Nicole Tasiemski University of Detroit Mercy Family Assessment – Applying the Calgary Family Assessment Model Family is such a simple word which has multiple meanings. Family is a unit of parents and their children, when two or more people share goals and values with long term commitments, or when two or more people live in the same home. These are all definitions of family. However…