Entre Ser y No Ser: Identity development negotiations of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists.

This study provides insight into the experiences of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specifically the meaning-making of their identity development with regard to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within the context of their activism and activist spaces. This study asserts a Chicana/Latina feminist perspective using the path of conocimiento to further understand and contextualize the embodied knowledge and material realities of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists in higher education. I highlight two overarching findings that demonstrate a sense of “entre ser y no ser” or “in between being and not being,” which encompassed the tensions, contradictions, and negotiations that queer Latinx/a/o college students experience. I share how queer Latinx/a/o college students negotiate identity development through (a) coming into a queer Latinx/a/o identity and (b) developing an intersectional queer feminist identity and praxis. Last, I provide several implications for future research and practice that centers queer Latinx/a/o students in202461075 college environments.