McNorton, Campbell2025-03-032025-03-032023https://hdl.handle.net/2097/44791Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award - Individual Non-Freshman category, honorable mentionThis is my final research project for GWSS 405: Social Movements and Resistance. For this project, I decided that I wanted to research LGBTQ conversion therapy and the origins of the practice. With this research, I began to see and then examine the connection between modern day conversion therapy practices and Indigenous residential schools that were run in North America. In the paper I argue that conversion therapy is based in white colonial violence that upholds capitalism, white supremacy and settler colonial violence. However, despite the history of settler violence that is entwined with conversion therapy, most anti-conversion therapy activism centers white gay young men. So, instead of centering the normative white subject, I call for an alternate framework to be utilized in discussions surrounding conversion therapy-- an anti-colonial, anti-racist intersectional understanding of the settler colonial foundation. With this framework, I aim to work toward coalitions that work together against cis-hetero settler violence that continues to impact conversion therapy.This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Conversion TherapyWhite Christian Nationalist SettlersLGBTQSettler Colonial ViolenceIndigenous Residential SchoolsTextMcNorton, C. (2023). Conversion therapy: Recognizing and recentering the White Christian Nationalist settler origins. Unpublished manuscript, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.