Transforming power with Pose: Centering love in state-sponsored services for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. Issue 3 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Trochmann, Maren B.; Millesen, Judith L.
• Is Part Of: Administrative theory & praxis. Volume 44:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 205
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: LGBTQ youth services -- communal love -- power-with -- transformative public administration; Public administration -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 350
• DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.1945375
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1084-1806

Abstract

Abstract: The disproportionate numbers of LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness presents moral and ethical dilemmas, carries high emotional and social costs for those without safe, adequate housing, and impacts society at-large. This paper argues that rather than traditional, power-over responses that perpetuate oppression, ostracization, and feelings of powerlessness experienced by young people at multiple intersections of marginalization, public service approaches can foster power-with . The ballroom culture captured in the television series Pose provides critical insight to creating systemic change and justice from a starting point of communal love and power-with . By rejecting the politics of domination in favor of the politics of love, these approaches reaffirm self-efficacy and agency, and ultimately lead toward justice.