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Dill, L. J. (2022). Maroons: Blackgirlhood in Plain Sight. Feminist Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12089
Dill, L. J., Rivera, B., & Sutton, S. (2018). “Don’t Let Nobody Bring You Down”: How Urban Black Girls Write and Learn from Ethnographically-based Poetry to Understand and Heal from Relationship Violence. The Ethnographic Edge, 2(1), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.15663/tee.v2i1.30
Dill, L. J. (2015). Poetic Justice: Engaging in Participatory Narrative Analysis to Find Solace in the “Killer Corridor.” American Journal of Community Psychology, 55(1), 128-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-014-9694-7
Mountz, S., Capous-Desyllas, M., & Perez, N. (2020). Speaking back to the system: recommendations for practice and policy from the perspectives of youth formerly in foster care who are LGBTQ. Child Welfare, 97(5), 117-141. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48626870
Mountz, S., Capous-Desyllas, M., & Sevillano, L. (2020). Educational trajectories of youth formerly in foster care who are LGBTQ: Before, during, and after emancipation. Child Welfare, 97(6), 79-101. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48626317
Mountz, S., & Capous-Desyllas, M. (2020). Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care. Children and Youth Services Review, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104622
Mountz, S. (2020). Remapping pipelines and pathways: Listening to queer and transgender young people’s trajectories through girls’ juvenile justice facilities. Affilia, 35(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109919880517
Mountz, S., Capous-Desyllas, M., & Pourciau, E. (2018). “Because we’re fighting to be ourselves:” Voices from transgender and gender expansive former foster youth. Child Welfare, 96(1), 103-125. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48628037
Mountz, S. (2016). That’s the sound of the police: State sanctioned violence and resistance among LGBTQ young adults previously incarcerated in girls’ juvenile justice facilities. Affilia, 31(3), 287-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109916641161
Related Presentations & Media Resources
- Dr. Sarah Mountz at the National Academies (2021)
- LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care, The Social Workers - Dr. Sarah Mountz of UAlbany SSW (2018)
- From Our Perspectives: Untold Stories of LGBTQ Youth in the Los Angeles Foster Care System (2017)
- The Social Workers - Foster Care Youth & Higher Education, the Sanctuary of Independent Media (2020)
- From Our Perspectives: A Photovoice Study with LGBTQ Former Foster Youth in Los Angeles County, NYS Youth Justice Institute (2020)
- Sarah Mountz, University at Albany – Challenges of Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth in Foster Care, Academic Minute (2019)
- Your behavior has a profound impact on the health of your LGBTQ child, Michigan Radio State of Opportunity (2016)
- Dill, L. J. (2021). #LetBlackGirlsBeGirls. New York: New York University School of Global Public Health. Available from
- Dill L. J. (2020). Committed to Health for Black Girls. New York: New York University School of Global Public Health. Available from
- Dill, L. J. (2015). A Different Standard for Black Girls. Black Press USA. Available from
- MSU GenCen Colloquia Series with Dr. LeConte Dill
- Police Brutality and Reform Through a Public Health Lens
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