Ryan A. Miller (he/him) (@drryanmiller.bsky.social)

Sharing my new article in Journal of Women & Minorities in Science and Engineering w/Tynsley Gilchrist, Brandon Bakka, Tricia Clayton, Maura Borrego- Toward Transgressive Capital: LGBTQ+ Engineering Students Developing Queer Cultural Capital Through Reading Groups dl.begellhouse.com/journals/005...

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Toward Transgressive Capital: LGBTQ+ Engineering Students Developing Queer Cultural Capital Through Reading Groups LGBTQ+ students face hostile climates in engineering, yet few studies explore interventions that support queer student success. This interview study examines how participation in LGBTQ+ engineering reading groups helped 11 students develop queer cultural capital to navigate engineering. We demonstrate that through their development of queered forms of cultural capital including linguistic, familial, aspirational, navigational, and resistant capital, participants also developed emergent transgressive capital to move beyond boundaries and reject binaries. The reading group itself was created as a transgressive counterspace within a college of engineering and was structured to eliminate power differentials between undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. Participants rejected binaries in their use of pronouns and descriptions of their gender and sexual identities. Students credited the reading group for helping them realize there are other queer people succeeding in engineering. The reading group strengthened some participants’ queer identities, prompting them to be out to more people, including listing the group on their resume for potential employers to see. Participants were inspired by the nonbinary faculty member leading the group and the authors whose work they read. Overall, the reading group allowed students to reframe their daily realities in engineering and imagine how they might make change in the future. https://dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,forthcoming,53871.html#