Abstract
Publishing critical health communication scholarship comes with challenges. In reflecting on my own experiences, I discuss the ways in which health communication is designed to favor post-positivistic research. Through looking at reviewer comments and general academic conversations, I discuss the barriers critical health communication scholars face. In the end, I provide suggestions for ways that critical health communication scholars can move forward as leaders in our subfield.
Highlights
Publishing critical health communication scholarship comes with challenges
In my experience and through conversations with other related scholars, it appears that critical health communication scholars undergo intense scrutiny in their work
As a queer critical health researcher, I find myself battling between representing my identity and pursuing health communication scholarship
Summary
Departments of Communication & Philosophy and Public Health, Keene State College, Keene, NH, United States. In reflecting on my own experiences, I discuss the ways in which health communication is designed to favor post-positivistic research. Through looking at reviewer comments and general academic conversations, I discuss the barriers critical health communication scholars face. It was my scholarship that was being rejected and my identity as a queer person. In my experience and through conversations with other related scholars, it appears that critical health communication scholars undergo intense scrutiny in their work. As a queer critical health researcher, I find myself battling between representing my identity and pursuing health communication scholarship. I explore my experiences of attempting to establish myself as a critical health researcher through both publications and through finding a place within the academy
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