Reshaping Time: Recommendations for Suicide Prevention in LBGT Populations |
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Authors: | Clare Mullaney |
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Institution: | 1. Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAclaremul@sas.upenn.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on “Mapping Queer Bioethics,” in which we take a solipsistic turn to “map” the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines the journal’s 2011 consensus recommendations for the prevention of LGBT suicide. Invoking the axiom approach of Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick’s seminal Epistemology of the Closet, the author argues that merely offering practical guidelines at the level of the demonstrative and the instructive may not be sufficient models to address the urgency of suicide rates in LGBTQ youth populations. |
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Keywords: | Bioethics childhood sexuality gender identity LGBT education LGBT youth psychiatry suicide suicide prevention suicide risk the closet |
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