“Empowerment for Us by Us (E4UBU)”: Developing a Model of Empowerment Using Feminist Participatory Methods with LBQT+ Persons Assigned Female at Birth in Western Kenya
Abstract
1. Introduction
Minority Stress and Empowerment
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Methods
2.2. Participants
2.3. Interview and Focus Group Guides
2.4. Procedures
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Empowerment as a Process
“Yeah, like I’ve gained more knowledge, I’ve become more vocal than I was before. I feel like I feared people, but at least nowadays I can mingle with people. I feel like I know a lot when it comes to like the LGBTQ, unlike, before I just thought that maybe it was just a phase and it’ll go away, but no it ain’t.”
“So with, with time, with the many times I got to attend these meetings, I came to identify myself and know like, no, it’s not a sin, I’m just like other people. So as I continued to attend the forums to date, I feel I’m empowered.”
3.2. A Process Dependent on Population, Context, and Issue
3.3. A Process Requiring Sustained, Sufficient Resources
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Tucker, H.M.; Odhiambo, R.; Jadwin-Cakmak, L.; Mbanda, A.; Lacombe-Duncan, A.; Rucah, C.; Ubong, I.-A.; Akoth Ouko, C.; Odero, W.; Harper, G.W. “Empowerment for Us by Us (E4UBU)”: Developing a Model of Empowerment Using Feminist Participatory Methods with LBQT+ Persons Assigned Female at Birth in Western Kenya. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 948. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21070948
Tucker HM, Odhiambo R, Jadwin-Cakmak L, Mbanda A, Lacombe-Duncan A, Rucah C, Ubong I-A, Akoth Ouko C, Odero W, Harper GW. “Empowerment for Us by Us (E4UBU)”: Developing a Model of Empowerment Using Feminist Participatory Methods with LBQT+ Persons Assigned Female at Birth in Western Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2024; 21(7):948. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21070948
Chicago/Turabian StyleTucker, Heather M., Rebecca Odhiambo, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Anita Mbanda, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Caroline Rucah, Ini-Abasi Ubong, Cynthia Akoth Ouko, Wilson Odero, and Gary W. Harper. 2024. "“Empowerment for Us by Us (E4UBU)”: Developing a Model of Empowerment Using Feminist Participatory Methods with LBQT+ Persons Assigned Female at Birth in Western Kenya" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21, no. 7: 948. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21070948
APA StyleTucker, H. M., Odhiambo, R., Jadwin-Cakmak, L., Mbanda, A., Lacombe-Duncan, A., Rucah, C., Ubong, I.-A., Akoth Ouko, C., Odero, W., & Harper, G. W. (2024). “Empowerment for Us by Us (E4UBU)”: Developing a Model of Empowerment Using Feminist Participatory Methods with LBQT+ Persons Assigned Female at Birth in Western Kenya. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(7), 948. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21070948