User:Caelenmw/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Xenophobia
 * After evaluating this article for the last assignment, I noticed improvements that could be made. For example, making the article more engaging and adding more information on Xenophobia from the COVID-19 pandemic. Readers on the talk page state that the page reads like a newspaper, so I would edit it to be more informational and easier to digest.
 * Potential Sources:
 * Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A history of xenophobia in the United States. Basic Books, 2019.
 * Bordeau, Jamie. Xenophobia. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 2009.

Option 2

 * Stonewall riots
 * This article intrigues me because it is something I am personally passionate about. Though I believe the article to be well written with a lot of information, it might be beneficial to add information from an intersectional approach. For example, how one of the main figures of the riot, Marsha P. Johnson paved the way as a black trans woman, and possibly dive into the discrimination many black trans women face.
 * Potential Sources:
 * Calafell, Bernadette Marie. "Narrative authority, theory in the flesh, and the fight over the death and life of Marsha P. Johnson." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 6, no. 2 (2019): 26-39.
 * Matzner, Andrew. "Stonewall riots." GLBTQ Archive (2015).

Option 3

 * Discrimination against transgender men
 * This article is something I care about, so I would love to improve it. At the top of the page, it does say that the article has multiple issues. It states that the article is written like an argumentative essay or personal reflection. The article also potential contains personal or unreliable research. Due to these critiques, I believe it is important to find reliable sources to make the article more accurate and informational.
 * Potential Sources:
 * Obedin-Maliver, Juno, and Harvey J. Makadon. "Transgender men and pregnancy." Obstetric medicine 9, no. 1 (2016): 4-8.
 * Leppel, Karen. "The labor force status of transgender men and women." International Journal of Transgenderism 17, no. 3-4 (2016): 155-164.
 * DuBois, L. Zachary, Sally Powers, Bethany G. Everett, and Robert-Paul Juster. "Stigma and diurnal cortisol among transitioning transgender men." Psychoneuroendocrinology 82 (2017): 59-66.

Option 4

 * Straight ally
 * I believe this article has the right idea, but it definitely can be improved. For example, the page says that it has potentially unreliable and personal research. It also says that the article does not reflect Wikipedia's encyclopedia tone. This could mean there is implicit bias, or information not backed up with sources.
 * Potential Sources:
 * Levesque, Amie. "“I’ve Always Wanted a Gay Family Member!”: Straight Ally Girls and Gender Inequality in a High School Gay-Straight Alliance." Qualitative Sociology 42, no. 2 (2019): 205-225.
 * Eichler, Matthew. "The experience of becoming a straight ally-activist of GLBT people." In Learning in community: Proceedings of the joint international conference of the Adult Education Research Conference and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, vol. 1, pp. 181-186. 2007.
 * Rostosky, Sharon S., Whitney W. Black, Ellen DB Riggle, and Dani Rosenkrantz. "Positive aspects of being a heterosexual ally to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 85, no. 4 (2015): 331.

Option 5

 * Microaggression
 * This article represents an important topic of racism in the United States. I think it's important to provide an intersectional approach to it and possibly add to the intersectional section in the article. The article has a good overview of the subject, but lacks specific examples in some areas (intersectionality, sexuality and sexual orientation, and mental illness).
 * Potential Sources:
 * Sue, Derald Wing, ed. Microaggressions and marginality: Manifestation, dynamics, and impact. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
 * Sue, Derald Wing, Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino, Jennifer M. Bucceri, Aisha Holder, Kevin L. Nadal, and Marta Esquilin. "Racial microaggressions in everyday life: implications for clinical practice." American psychologist 62, no. 4 (2007): 271.
 * Capodilupo, Christina M., Kevin L. Nadal, Lindsay Corman, Sahran Hamit, Oliver B. Lyons, and Alexa Weinberg. "The manifestation of gender microaggressions." (2010).