This study examines the everyday positive identity of spiritual/religious lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+), Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). By enriching our knowledge about the positive developmental processes (e.g., strengths, resilience, protective factors) that multiply marginalized and underrepresented populations employ to navigate their identity, we can better understand the impact and dynamics of systemic oppression on an individual’s expression and development of self. Ten individuals from Canada and the US provided diarized voice entries to a daily prompt in an experience sampling method (ESM). We analyzed voice clip entries collected over a period of two to four weeks and conducted an interpretative phenomenological analysis for local and global expressions of identity that weave real-time processes to generate a broader frame of positive identity mechanisms, contexts, and content. Real-time concrete events prompted participants to reflect on their broader identity conceptualizations across time (past, present, and future) through the experiences of presence and gratitude.
Renee V. Galliher https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0430-9294
Hay Pradell https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8896-8726
Tyus Roanhorse https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-8052
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Identity. Elizabeth Grace Wong, Renee V. Galliher, Hay Pradell, Tyus Roanhorse & Hanna Huenemann (2021) Everyday Positive Identity Experiences of Spiritual/Religious LGBTQ+ BIPOC, Identity, DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2021.1996364. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.