A Critical and Intersectional Approach to Support Multiracial Non-Binary Counseling Students

Abstract

The authors highlight the intersectional identities of multiracial non-binary counseling students and their inequitable experiences within counselor education. A review of existing research reveals the scarcity of frameworks that support the identities of multiracial non-binary counseling students. Counselor education has historically utilized traditional strategies that reinforce the othering of students with intersectional identities. The authors use a case illustration to depict strategies informed by critical theory pedagogy and intersectional theory to develop more inclusive educational experiences for multiracial non-binary counseling students.

Keywords:

• Non-binary
• multiracial
• counselor education
• critical theory
• intersectional

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