ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2024
Homes of substance: Drugs and the making of home/lessness for 2S/LGBTQ+ youth.
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- The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups.American journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- Harm reduction in photovoice knowledge mobilization with 2S/LGBTQ+ youth who use(d) drugs: A community showcase.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- 2S/LGBTQ+ youth substance use and pathways to homelessness: A photovoice study.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- The One Health Clinic: Care for Young Adults and Companion Animals Experiencing Homelessness.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual minority (2S/LGBTQ+) youth between the ages of 14 and 29 experience inequities in homelessness and substance use. Research in this area has explored substance use as a determinant of homelessness and/or as a coping mechanism, yet far less attention has been directed to the potentially generative role of drugs in this marginalizing context. This community-based photovoice study leverages data from 61 semi-structured interviews with 32 2S/LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness and unstable housing to examine how drugs shape their practices and contexts of homemaking. Analysis followed a reflexive thematic approach and was informed theoretically by perspectives on home- and place-making, a momentum-stagnation analytical frame, and a narcofeminist ethics of care. This framing centred attention on the possibilities of what drugs can do for 2S/LGBTQ+ youth in terms of shaping selves, homes, and worlds while homeless. We inductively derived three themes: (i) chasing comforts, (ii) striking down stagnation, and (iii) producing precarity. 2S/LGBTQ+ youth consumed substances in chasing comforts including warmth, relief, and a sense of clarity and being more at ease within the context of homelessness and social and material inequity. Their substance use was also a means for striking down stagnation and engendering momentum as they worked to carve out better homes and futures for themselves. Youth frequently drew attention to the temporality and limits of these benefits, however, cautioning that drugs could also turn to producing new forms of precarity that limited what they expected and experienced as possible with respect to their homemaking projects. Findings highlight the generative potential of drugs in the making of home/lessness and provide critical direction for policy and service delivery, including for supports to further consider and attend to the social contexts, meanings, and effects of 2S/LGBTQ+ youths' substance use in connection with homelessness.
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