Over the summer, my brilliant colleague Dr. Ramona Beltrán and I provided consultation with one of NPR's producers about the use of #decolonization in therapy and shifting the focus to healing. Both of these are super accessible and would be great classroom additions! 1/
The podcast is a compelling story about intergenerational trauma in a Cambodian community in San José. Episode is titled "Therapy Ghostbusters" on NPR's Invisibilia Podcast. Link here: npr.org/2022/09/20/112… 2/
The article is a great follow-up to the podcast episode and features some of Dr. Beltrán's story and scholarship. Article is titled "How some therapists are helping patients heal by tackling structural racism" on NPR's website. Link here:
Part of decolonizing the academy is including different ways of knowing and doing! Both this podcast and article would be excellent applications of what decolonizing therapy can look like in practice! If ya check either of these out, lemme know whatcha think! /end
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Don't wanna watch the colonial glorifying blue people movie? Check out these sci-fi films by actual Indigenous people telling our own stories instead. 🧵
Night Raiders (available on Hulu) by Cree-Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet and executive produced by Taika Waititi. Sci-fi film where "a mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try and rescue her daughter from a state-run institution". Released March 2021.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (available on Tubi) debut of writer-director Miꞌkmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby. [Stars Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs from Reservation Dogs] Explores Canada's residential school system through three generations of Native women. Released in 2013.