Queer Like Me

The author collected the friendship narratives of queer college women of color at women's colleges in the southeast in dyads. The text includes a narrative study that explored the growth fostering nature of friendships with queer college women of color at women's colleges in the southeast. The author also proposed a model for multiple identity integration for use by college counselors and other mental health professionals developing interventions and programs for queer college women of color. The author introduced the term queer, and the rational for its use in the study as well as, provided a rationale for the study of queer college women of color, and offered some relevant and personal background information on the topic. The author included a case conceptualization that described how college counselors and academic affairs professionals can use the Multiple Marginalized Identity Integration Model (MMIIM) to develop interventions and programs for queer college women of color.