ABSTRACT
This chapter also employs excerpts from the students’ interviews and reflection journals to highlight implications for professionals who work in higher education (i.e., faculty, student affairs staff, and administrators). These recommendations are acts that individuals can perform to better the lives of Queer Students of Color at historically white institutions. First, the author shares the participants’ recommendation that faculty need to better integrate an attention to social identities in their teaching, and in particular, that they should uplift the presence of those with multiple minoritized identities. Then, the chapter notes that Queer Students of Color wanted to see a similar attention to multiple minoritized identities in student affairs programming. Next, the author communicates the necessity for campus mental health counselors to engage identity-conscious approaches. The chapter concludes with the final recommendation that Queer Students of Color had: wanting higher education professionals to listen to them, come in with an open mind, and care for them.
