Dalarinji, Your Story: Understanding and Promoting the Social and Emotional Well-being and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ Young People
Background
This is a NSW research project that aims to understand and promote the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning young people, and to work with services to develop appropriate supports.
There is very little locally specific guidance available for services on how best to support a young person who is both Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and identifies as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Asexual or other (LGBTQA+). This means that young people (14-25 years) who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and LGBTQA+ may not receive the same level of support, sexual health care and information as other members of the community. Young people who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and LGBTQA+ may be at increased risk of poor social and emotional wellbeing, but there is little information available on how best to support you and keep you strong.
Project
This is an opportunity to inform researchers about your needs for support and information as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young person to:
- Build greater understanding of your social and emotional wellbeing, and
- Inform local health, counselling and appropriate services to develop programs that support Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young people say will help them.
Research Team
- Karen Soldatić, CERC Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON, Canada
- Linda Briskman (CI)
- Professor Corrinne Sullivan (AI)
- Kim Spurway (PM)
- William Trewllyn (RA)
Funding
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
Period
- 2019-2024
Outcomes
Community Reports
- Community Roadmap: https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:67773/ (external link)
- Community Final Report: https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:61700/ (external link)
- Community Preliminary Report: https://apo.org.au/node/310399 (external link)
Special Issues
Social Inclusion and Exclusion for First Nations LGBTIQ+ People in Australia (external link)
What Matters: Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Pasts, Presents and Futures (external link)
Webinar
Webinar: Indigenous and LGBTIQ+: Challenges of Social Inclusion in Australia (external link)
Publications
- Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C. T., Coe, G., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., & Spurway, K. (2023). ‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives. (external link) Journal of Youth Studies, 1-14.
- Spurway, K., Sullivan, C., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., Briskman, L. and Soldatic, K. (2022), '[In Press] "I felt invisible" : First nations LGBTIQSB+ young people's experiences with health service provision in Australia' (external link) , Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services.
- Sullivan, C. T., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Trewllyn, W., & Soldatic, K. (2023). The Dalarinji Project-“Your Story”: A Narrative Synthesis (external link) . Journal of Global Indigeneity, 7(2), 1-25
- Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., & Spurway, K. (2023, in progress). Indigenous LGBTIQSB+ People’s Experiences of Family Violence in Australia. Journal of Family Violence, preprint online, (external link) March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00539- (external link)
- Briskman, L., Sullivan, C. T., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., & Soldatic, K. (2022). (Re)Claiming Health: The Human Rights of Young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous People in Australia (external link) . Health and Human Rights, 24(1), 35–48.
- Spurway, K., Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Uink, B., Liddelow-Hunt, S., Hill, B. and Lin, A. (2022), 'The social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous LGBTQA+ young people : a global perspective' (external link) , Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, vol 39, no 2 , pp 138 - 147.
- Sullivan, C., Coe, G., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Transforming colonial social suffering : strategies of hope and resistance by LGBTIQ+ Indigenous peoples in settler-colonial Australia' (external link) , Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance, Routledge 9780367675554.
- Sullivan, C., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2022), '"She's always been a fighter for me" : Indigenous mothers as advocates and defenders of their LGBTIQSB+ children' (external link) , LGBTQ+ Family, vol 18, no 5 , pp 463 - 474.
- Sullivan, C., Coe, G., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Mobility tactics : young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous Australians' belonging and connectedness' (external link) , Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol 6, no 1 , pp 1 - 15.
- Sullivan, C.T., Tran, D.; Trewlynn, W., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Briskman, L., Soldatic, K. (2022). “We Want to Help but We Don’t Know What to Do”: Service Providers Working with Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Youth in Australia. Sexes, 3, 308–324. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes3020024 (external link)
- Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J. and Spurway, K. (2022), 'Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth : mapping the evidence' (external link) , Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol 24, no 4 , pp 564 - 582.
- Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Spurway, K. (2021), 'Social inclusion and exclusion for First Nations LGBTIQ+ people in Australia' (external link) , Social Inclusion, vol 9, no 2 , pp 1 - 6.
- Soldatic, Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J., & Spurway, K. (2021). Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Australian First Nations LGBTIQ+ Young People’s Wellbeing. Social Inclusion (external link) , 9(2), 42–51. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i2.3603 (external link)