LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Module 1 - Intersectionality & Deep Histories

Dates and Times

End Date: 4/8/2029

Objectives

1. The successful student will advocate for SGM identities and communities in the fields of healthcare.
a. Identify and construct modalities of care that uplift and honor SGM identities in the fields of healthcare.
b. Disrupt practices that marginalize or harm SGM persons in the fields of healthcare.

2. The successful student will understand SGM identities as intersectional and historicized.
a. Define intersectionality.
b. Define heteronormativity and cisnormativity.
c. Describe identities as historically and culturally constructed.
d. Map categories of sexuality and gender to other social differences and hierarchies of power.

3. The successful student will understand that sexuality and gender are constituted and contested through race, ethnicity, settler colonialism, and the transatlantic slave trade.
a. Critique and historicize binary constructions of sexuality and gender as legacies of settler colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.
b. Recognize that gender and sexuality continue to expand and change historically and culturally.
c. Articulate the impact of scientific racism and sexology on the medical practices involving SGM individuals and communities.

4. The successful student will practice cultural humility in their everyday healthcare practice with all patients.
a. Recognize local and national LGBTQ+ resources that you can utilize in your practice and share with your community.
b. Engage self-criticism and self-reflection as an ongoing, iterative process to recognize and disrupt one’s cultural and personal biases.
c. Examine one’s healthcare practices, space, and bureaucratic forms for heteronormative and cisnormative biases.

Authors:

Shannon Winnubst - Project Manager

Dr. Shannon Winnubst is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She specializes in queer studies, neoliberalism, and race/racialization in the United States.

Ali Alkhalifa - Curriculum Designer & Coordinator

Ali Alkhalifa (he/him or they/them) is the Education Program Specialist for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. Ali helped research and coordinate with various lecturers with whom he co-created the LGBTQ+ healthcare content. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and is passionate about feminist pedagogies, media analysis, and LGBTQ+ health disparities.

Alex Souza - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Alex Souza, M. Ed, is an Instructional Designer in the Office of Distance Education within the College of Arts and Sciences. Alex is passionate about making learning experiences more inclusive and engaging. He prioritizes empathy when considering the learner's experience and while collaborating with stakeholders and colleagues.

Jessica Henderson - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Jessica Henderson is a Senior Instructional Designer at Ohio State, specializing in accessible, inclusive, and engaging online learning experiences. Her interdisciplinary background spans curriculum development, distance education, foreign language instruction, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning and UX design principles, her work emphasizes motivation, Gameful learning, scenario‑based learning, and active learning strategies in online environments. She currently serves as the lead expert in designing immersive digital educational escape rooms and pioneering creative uses of AI in education, supporting innovative online teaching practices and alternative assessment strategies.

Sarah Dove - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Sarah Dove holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University, an MA in Dance Theories and Practices from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a BA in Music and Business from Otterbein College. For the last eight years, Sarah has invested significant time working in curriculum and instructional development in higher education with keen attention to access pedagogy and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice frameworks. Sarah is very proud to have supported the LGBTQ+ Healthcare CEU project during planning and early development stages. This initiate is an important resource for healthcare professionals to bolster point-of-care for marginalized individuals.

Matthew Carter - Audiovisual Production Specialist

Matt brings expertise in instructional video and podcast production and editing, photography, software recordings for complex technical training, case-based simulation videos, and more.