It's Not Burnout, It's More: Queer College Activists of Color and Mental Health

By A. Vaccaro, Jasmine A. Mena. 2011

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A phenomenological study of the experiences of self-identified queer activists of color revealed how they coped with the competing demands of academics, family, and activism. While participants exhibited innumerable strengths, they often contended with external and internal pressures, limited social support, poor boundaries, and lack of self-care. The absence of social support, in conjunction with poor self-care, a heightened sense of responsibility for others, and multiple minority identity explorations, left college student activists experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, and in some cases suicidal ideation.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Resilience and collective action: Exploring buffers against minority stress for transgender individuals. (2015, unknown): “Such a pattern may point to the complex risks of high levels of activism, including fatigue, burnout, or depression (Vaccaro & Mena, 2011).”
• Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling: A Framework to Address Racial Trauma in Africana Communities (2020, background): “It is important to note that community healing may not occur without costs, which are being conceptualized and explored in the extant literature as professional burnout, compassion fatigue, activism burnout, and vicarious trauma (Hernandez-Wolfe et al., 2015; Vaccaro & Mena, 2011).”
• Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights Activists: Symptoms, Causes and Implications (2015, background): “activists and Vaccaro and Mena (2011) found physical manifestations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying (LGBTQ) activist”