How to Respond Assertively to Sexual/Gender Minority Stress
INCLUSIVE DIVERSE PRIDE FLAG. SOURCE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Who We Are
The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project
- Instead of reinforcing one side over others and reinforcing bias of either/both/all sides, this book project used differing viewpoints to check for prejudice and find common ground on the topic. We hope the ideas/skills presented are comprehensive, inclusive, trustworthy, and free of misinformation and invalidation.
- The way forward to resolving personal, interpersonal, family, and community conflicts about sexual/gender diversity is to learn how to co-create safety, collaborate, and integrate our knowledge and efforts into win-win strategies and solutions.
- The above image, also found on the covers of our chapter booklets, represents Venn Diagrams and overlapping and nonintersecting aspects of ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. We are all interconnected, the same and different, and complex and belong.
About Us
Narratives, ideas, and skills for personal and social resilience and growth in response to minority stress
The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, published by Rowman & Littlefield, and 12 companion booklets self-published by each set of chapter coauthors.
Each chapter has 3 to 15 coauthors, with differing and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints, who came together to contribute their ideas and skills regarding the chapter topic. About 110+ scholars, clinicians, and/or community leaders contributed to this project. Their reason for this collaboration was to find common ground on the chapter topic, reduce prejudice, and improve LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of readers.
These self-help resources are written for the general public and can be used by academics, clinicians, researchers, religious leaders, parents, and other providers. They are for conservatives and progressives who want to learn updated and integrated ideas and skills about sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, faith/purpose of life, emotional health, resilience, and relationships.
These resources are not designed to sway readers to live one option or another or to invalidate any life choices.
Coeditors'/Coauthors' Bios
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These bios will include coeditors'/coauthors' (a) reasons/purpose/hopes to participate in this book project and in their particular chapter, (b) expertise/experiences they bring to this chapter/topic, and (c) personal and/or professional information that will help their coauthors and readers know them and their viewpoint.
Peacemaking Project
This book project is a social experiment of bridge-building to reduce the historical and current polarization, misunderstandings, and harm that occur around gender/sexual diversity.
We hope to empower readers with identity development and skill development and reduce the side-taking that impairs growth. We hope these guidebooks and e-resources help you and others see the worth in yourself and others.
Especially in these divisive political times, we hope these resources can be an inspiration for other projects.